Easy to Forget
I want you to love this work
despite all that refuses to recommend it.
I want you to see past the rows,
the cinder block and snotty noses,
the stacks and stacks of boxes to be checked.
I want you to refuse to see any tool,
any map, any protocol or strategy,
as a solution to your complex problem.
There is no solution. There is no problem.
I want you to spend these precious days
in the company of young souls,
in the presence of hope, unscrewing
the caps of jars full of wonder,
rediscovering surprise and wide-open eyes.
I want you to kneel before the mysteries
of blank pages and the open doors
that form the beginnings of all these lives,
and I want you to cry joyous tears,
surrounded as you are by the carbonated
alchemy of mind work, the magic of synapse,
the ancient artifacts and lore and mystic dance.
I want you to adore your holy rites,
your proximity to the pulsing human core.
So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Poem: January 21, 2026
Forecast Just suggest the possibility of snow on the horizon, and I become truly useless. The storm’s three days away and on a weekend, but ...
-
Maintaining Some people won’t straighten their desks at the end of the day, but I do, most days, and I sweep the floor as well, ten to tw...
-
To Sleep I think I’m looking forward. Who can say what’s going on? I sleep well enough. I’m comfortable, but I wake up from dreams that seem...
-
Allegory of the Cave You open the door, and an alien is standing there, probably backlit, as those guys usually are– big head, long, pointy...
No comments:
Post a Comment