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a thing, true

March 12, 2016 19 Comments

There’d been a time when men spoke as oracles, carving nightโ€™s obsidian into black-winged angels with their words’ intricate precision, each fine syllable spilled of their rotten-tooth mouths, poetry, the teeming spit glistening upon the swollen round of their cankerous lips, their poems, incarnate, swelling with life, swimming with notions, gestating before born; we live in the mossy, crimson shadows of their brutal and artful hearts, lovers– we, not poets– in these decades of haste, but small men, trifling blasphemers, on most days. Tho on those rare evenings, magical, on those days, particularly blessed, on those mornings, warm and glorious, we might still recall their tall spirits, we might write a poem– a thing worth remembering, a thing bolder than our vanity, a thing, true, whispered into the lonesome void of another soul.


I can feel the days slide over the precipice into eternity, I can sense a diminishment, on those days that I don’t write.

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  1. writinglioness says

    March 12, 2016 at 1:29 am

    Love this. ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • Eric says

      March 12, 2016 at 1:31 am

      Thank you ๐Ÿ™‚ I started it late last night, having almost missed a day of writing.

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      • writinglioness says

        March 12, 2016 at 1:32 am

        I understand the feeling. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  2. VictoryInTrouble says

    March 12, 2016 at 2:00 am

    So write!! I like to read you! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • Eric says

      March 12, 2016 at 2:01 am

      I did! It’s up there ๐Ÿ˜‰ And thank you. I’m honored whenever you do read whatever it is that I’ve written.

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      • VictoryInTrouble says

        March 12, 2016 at 2:04 am

        I noticed you were absent and I missed you. You shouldn’t be honored because you are way talented but thanks, lol. ?

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        • Eric says

          March 12, 2016 at 2:14 am

          I was only gone a day, I think. Busy week. But yes, I am honored. I’ll always be. I hope you’ve been well during this extended absence :p

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          • VictoryInTrouble says

            March 12, 2016 at 2:18 am

            Smart ass. ?Yes, I’ve been well. I hope the same for you. ?

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            • Eric says

              March 12, 2016 at 2:19 am

              Lol ๐Ÿ™‚ Good, and thank you, Vic.

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              • VictoryInTrouble says

                March 12, 2016 at 2:22 am

                Have a good night, Eric. ?

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  3. mukul chand says

    March 12, 2016 at 2:03 am

    lovely poem

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    • Eric says

      March 12, 2016 at 2:15 am

      Thank you. I appreciate the kind words.

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      • mukul chand says

        March 12, 2016 at 2:28 am

        welcome

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  4. jerseydreaming says

    March 12, 2016 at 4:30 am

    Wow, very nice.

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    • Eric says

      March 12, 2016 at 4:35 am

      Thank you so much. I appreciate you reading this ๐Ÿ™‚

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  5. Lisa R. Palmer says

    March 12, 2016 at 2:14 pm

    Powerful, profound and honest… I think you’ve had one of those moments you speak of here… ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • Eric says

      March 12, 2016 at 2:22 pm

      Good morning, Lisa. Thank you. In keeping with the notion, I deleted a bunch of stuff this morning that was just me fogging up the windows with hot breath. Still more to go and some to be rewritten. I hope the sun is shining on you today, my friend ๐Ÿ™‚

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      • Lisa R. Palmer says

        March 12, 2016 at 5:37 pm

        ‘Tis a beautiful spring day here in western NY! ๐Ÿ™‚

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        • Eric says

          March 12, 2016 at 5:48 pm

          Fabulous. It is here as well. Headed out for some sunshine ๐Ÿ™‚

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