a thousand times before
Posted: March 4th, 2018, 10:15 am
I've written far too many poems
to keep track of my redundancy
and tho on some suppressed level of measurement
I'd love to believe each idea is brand new and brilliant,
the right side and the left side agree
in my case....there is nothing new under the milky way
every word in every poem
has been used before by some poet
on the opposite side of the mystical equation, but
even with my fingers solidly caught in the the crevice
on the sheer rock wall
I simply cannot contain my free-fall
my curse to write like a manic marionette
too narcissistic to see his reflection
in the universal pool of truth and ghostly ponds of preponderance,
spirits in the library with bony fingers tapping me on the shoulder
insist that I smell the eternal sea in the stuffy air
they are interchangeable comes a whisper
sky and water
sun and land
man and animal...plant and wind
damn...i must have had this very idea
a thousand times before
to keep track of my redundancy
and tho on some suppressed level of measurement
I'd love to believe each idea is brand new and brilliant,
the right side and the left side agree
in my case....there is nothing new under the milky way
every word in every poem
has been used before by some poet
on the opposite side of the mystical equation, but
even with my fingers solidly caught in the the crevice
on the sheer rock wall
I simply cannot contain my free-fall
my curse to write like a manic marionette
too narcissistic to see his reflection
in the universal pool of truth and ghostly ponds of preponderance,
spirits in the library with bony fingers tapping me on the shoulder
insist that I smell the eternal sea in the stuffy air
they are interchangeable comes a whisper
sky and water
sun and land
man and animal...plant and wind
damn...i must have had this very idea
a thousand times before