[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[Yasskin Marc]

Lichens are especially provocative for me ~ supposedly the oldest living organisms ?
I love to photograph them. ~!! 

~~~~~~love what you wrote ~ just curious about this stanza. ~~ “ the modern bard “ ?? ~~~~ who are these ?
~~ and yes ~ we have avoided the dark places of wisdom in so many ways.

> The modern bard burglarizes;
> broken is the connecting thread 
> between word and soul;
> having avoided the dark places of wisdom
> the images within a song
> are dull, 
> empty sounds. . .
>  


> On Nov 17, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 	The Poet’s Lament - Up Fisher Point, Utah 
>>  
>> I extract words from the lichen growing on boulders,
>> I rob the wind’s breath for inspiration,
>> I arrest the hawk’s flight to drink the juice of power,
>> I plagiarize the twisted shapes of pinion pines
>> to form sentences.
>> I am poet,
>> the thief of what was given for free
>> on filaments of love.
>>  
>> The modern bard burglarizes;
>> broken is the connecting thread
>> between word and soul;
>> having avoided the dark places of wisdom
>> the images within a song
>> are dull,
>> empty sounds. . .
>>  
>> But the forgotten pictures
>> still attempt to knock on the poet’s door,
>> to seize the imagination,
>> annihilate the individual
>> merge the lovers,
>> and meet the one who dares to jump
>> straight into the fire
>> to die and resurrect.
>>  
>> An alchemical transformation.
>>  
>> Now the new language makers,
>> extracting words from within the color of lichen,
>> endeavor to retrieve the lost soul
>> and project behind each sound
>> the eternal truth of who we all are.
>>  
>> My words only become true
>> when you
>> who listen
>> put them in my mouth.
> 
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