Seek As I Seek...
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
To wean oneself from the pressures of establishing an inflexible position of thinking and conviction—as to avoid premature demise of the brain’s potential, and in many cases, ones heart, given one is strongly influenced by the other—is to live as a dead species walking. (Image by Bourgois)
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Seek As I Seek…
by Odin Roark
Not what I speak.
That whirling dervish of conviction one conveys
Need not,
Nor should not,
Suggest what the reader wishes to believe,
Convey,
Speak,
Or Seek.
However...
Would that more wordsmiths
Were inclined to present but a perception,
Rather than a guised demand to follow
Might lead to a more enlightened state of mind.
For what is one person’s experience
Over another?
Can yours or my perception of experience
Be an end all,
The way it is or should be?
Reality thinks not.
For as Frederick Franck posits : “An artist has an obligation to question the conditions that rule all our lives… and to cause his audience to do the same.”
Nothing more
Nothing less.
Write on
You lexicon-warriors.
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In addition to Franck's great quote:
We, as a fraternity of kindred spirits, have an obligation to use all the tools and colors at our disposal to explore and express what comes through us. This despite how readers cry and complain because they don't understand, or they can't cogitate outside the box of their own self-imposed limitations. I think it's an embarrassment when readers (who claim to be writers and poets) cry because they don't understand the more advanced and beautiful words and the more forward thinking elements of philology. Never rest your quill poet. Regards...