What luminous trail we poets leave,
in proferétur persistence.
Quiescent in our cozen breve;
to feign pretence:
in mockeries of existence.
Where exercitation takes new life
or seeks senescent demons.
to shed such wearies of our strife;
and castigate:
embattled self-effusions.
For, now secenders glow so bright,
our own dark battles raging.
To paint our words in pitchblende light;
wit’s lambent flares:
and carbide pharos searching.
For whom but we, can profess see,
Chimera’s greater picture.
That takes the mind on its own spree;
of word’s own worth:
and emendator’s venture.
There lexica deems we need assess
astriction as our emblem.
The poet’s pen ne’er seek digress;
in pictured ink:
or to immerge its own dark kingdom.
Ten billion words have borne their light
in every aspect of enation.
How few of those still shine as bright;
or cry passé:
Whilst in their moment’s brief creation.
To shimmer there like lustred stars
true oilets of conception.
Those pulsars of their repertoires;
sees there again:
anamnesis’s carnage, of recollection.
For now, those words they gather dust.
its magnum opus now forgotten.
A relic of its aging trust;
tells an old tale:
to, schlimazel of sad inflection.
For now, the makers gather so
with solemn burdens of discretion.
What more a poet seeks to show;
beyond his scope:
in newest lights of his direction.
What banes are those who cannot see
age’s adage of endeavour.
Pen’s wondrous phrase of poetry;
Its labour’s writ:
Converging minds and hearts forever.
Mor.
We cannot know the pick of ages or moments. Just what is pronounced a flower amongst piles of defecation. Survival in the past was by chance pronounced as the best of, only because snippets had been saved from the wreck of history. Our digital inheritance may outlast us all and thereby pick a winner from amongst our debris.
I love a poem that makes me think Mor. You may be a classic in another age. Bob
the master has entered the room.
c'est magnifique!
My life would be complete with a
magnum opus one-tenth this brilliant.
Ron