the long wander

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revolutionR
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the long wander

Post by revolutionR » October 8th, 2016, 10:50 pm

the poet wanders long
through the streets of life
ponders in the witching hours
on the mysteries of the mystery
which is to follow language
through dark doorways
and deep corridors of knowing
but the poet is the opposite
of a magician, or rather
the poet is working with the same energy
but coming to it from a different direction
the poet does not conjure a poem
or pull a rabbit from a hat
or make a tempest in a tea pot
not that he would not
or play with symbols like a juggler
or call on the gods with a dagger
rather he opens ancient books
to let star strewn winds blow through words
no, the poet opens the senses to reality
that allows a deluge of information
that would drive any normal person crazy
yet the notion of normal in a misnomer
because there is something abnormal
about the human condition
we have to sacrifice what is called normal
the poet sees the illusion that war is sane
that the artist holds up a mirror to the world
so a poet becomes a kind of conduit
for the power a magician evokes
but without using all the weapons
thus a poem becomes a tiny library
of forbidden free experience
on the other side of normal
this is all done in the long wander
through the written streets of reality
in endless nights of mystic awe
ink the only magic
and her name always there
on the pristine page at the end

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Re: the long wander

Post by judih » October 8th, 2016, 11:15 pm

reading this was like a patient walk through a holy temple

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Re: the long wander

Post by revolutionR » October 9th, 2016, 11:55 am

If I ever went to India I would have like to have seen holy temples, I think of a forest as a holy temple, otherwise it will have to be a poem, glad you like Judih.

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