[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[roz at mcn.org]

> I love this, Riantee! So poignant and true

Love, Roz



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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