[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[Yasskin Marc]

My apologies ~ was not meant for group response.
Just a couple of old Bar-dos here. ~~~~~ ~ m.🙏💛

> On Nov 17, 2021, at 4:01 PM, Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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