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inner inspiration [from a world that offers so much more]

it can mean so little, and in time mean nothing at all, but so much more when left unwritten          
           
             
         
write from within... perhaps we've all been so delusional            
and selfish, or it could be just a phase we're going through            
or perhaps a knock to the head            
has caused some permanent trauma to our... sense of reality  
because it's apparent these arrogant poets            
who stand tall on their pedestals              
are blinded by their own divinity            
with their heads stuck-up with the stars            
and their fingers        
fumbling for words to describe heaven and hell            
when the truth is beyond them            
             
             
beauty is a gift for a poet to see            
and poetry is better left unsaid            
on the graffitied walls of Brooklyn            
and in an empty glass left sitting on the bar              
while you smoke a joint with the bartender            
in the narrow streets of Alphabet City            
             
             
it's searching for Bukowski's grave            
on a grassy hill in a Los Angeles cemetery            
and the moment of silence that followed            
             
             
it's a lost girl with a heart            
tattooed on the back of her neck            
left crying on the floor at Phoenix airport            
and the beauty you let walk away with a smile in Dubai              
             
             
another flower you left unpicked and unbroken            
             
             
poetry is a box of memories you trawled through last weekend            
flicking through pages of poems you wrote in your teens            
it's the smile on your face            
when you found photos of your younger sister            
caught between the pages              
pictures of her drawing with graphite on the bedroom floor            
             
             
it's throwing out your old poems            
pages written for an unglorified burial            
absent of tears and flames            
             
             
             
             
Inspired by this thread: http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/suggestions/read/8511/#319937
Written by case28 (Alexander Case)
Published | Edited 14th Mar 2016
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