Fashioned
by the hand of
Light & purpose,
each soul meticulously
created, and then bestowed
talents in a convoluted system
at a time wholly befitting
the Creators purposes,
pure cisterns
quenching
varied travelers, each
in a quest of asylum from
the nemesis of self-provocation
.
Take a drink of
.
curative waters to
counteract the effects
of faultless narcissism,
similitude as a conjuration
impeding the seekers soul,
torpor as a code of belief,
placing brick upon brick
hoping to achieve
a singular sensible thing
in the vast chronicles of time
.
Raise awareness, and then rebuke
.
Ionian ideals given to
the follies of thaumaturgy,
pharmaceutics, lawlessness,
ancient cultures awakened
as baffled geneses search
for significant
crystalline-bases
to build lives upon,
at first, strong
self-built structures,
becoming in time like
fouled dark dungeons for one
to vanish into, or be buried beneath
.
True seekers trammeled by
.
a scourge of
aesthetic egoism,
wispy post-modernism
retro-fitted with the secret
stingers of irradiated scorpions,
myriad snobbish imitators
overwhelming the
guileless with hokum; and
those that beguile the rootless with
RULES, defining what is and what aren’t
the accepted colors of a Poet’s expression…

richard lloyd cederberg
2021
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