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unanswered questions fill the poet with profound frustration
unreachable, unattainable
insolent silence
staring into the hollowness of insignificance
a lost-boy-like loathing of the child within the versifier
seeking bearing like the blind, sans dog
 
ideas zip
can't get a grip
 
attracting unnamed doggerel like flypaper
trying to compose these visceral thoughts onto papyrus
banging away like a rodeo bull
aching, grasping the right words
within the fogged thicket of diminutive, poets' mind
ought to be natural as hens laying an egg
 
make a fist of air
say a prayer
 
is it brilliance in the making
or merely menopausal, womanopausal, conceiving
slumped in fireside chair like a boxer between rounds
ego bruised, hearing hooting, finger-pointing thunder
incurable intensity of belief fulfills itself
we are owned by our fears
 
heart and mind gone
dismal gray dawn
 
hovering just inside thought-process is your brilliance
dealing with conscience of death
curse of humanity
verses to pen of pain and suffering
ink has run dry
lost among the incestuous reality of essence
 
screams are not heard
there are no words
 
naked truth sets in at fundamental level
when the Voice of the Bard laughs in your face
causing temporary (maybe) madness
while you sit motionless in self-inflicted hell
Quasimodo never so hideous
Paradise Lost moves into soft places of hurt
 
inside dark vale
beyond the pale
 
your genius, nothing but a traveling man's smile
behind that
crouching evil troll, wild-eyed, bloody-handed
nekkid sonofabitch
laying in wait for the poet to sob for lost fame
to the sound of soul-bones shattering
 
its over now
gloom on your brow
 
within chaotic images of insanity
the poet roars a magnificent hiss
speaks to ghost, ancient bards of poetical importance
saying
give distress a day of yourself, not a day-and-a-half
your brand-new muse, reflects you
 
fondles the pen
greatness begins
 
İFebruary 26, 2017  Jerry Pat Bolton
Written by standingmyground
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