[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[Taylor Slevin]

Riantee, I love your brilliance with words and the imagery you weave. 

So masterful! Thanks for sharing your gifts with us. 

Much love,
Taylor 

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> On Nov 18, 2021, at 8:29 AM, Roz via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>> I love this, Riantee! So poignant and true
> 
> Love, Roz
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> 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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