There’d been a time when men spoke as oracles, carving nightโs 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.
Love this. ๐
Thank you ๐ I started it late last night, having almost missed a day of writing.
I understand the feeling. ๐
So write!! I like to read you! ๐
I did! It’s up there ๐ And thank you. I’m honored whenever you do read whatever it is that I’ve written.
I noticed you were absent and I missed you. You shouldn’t be honored because you are way talented but thanks, lol. ?
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
Smart ass. ?Yes, I’ve been well. I hope the same for you. ?
Lol ๐ Good, and thank you, Vic.
Have a good night, Eric. ?
lovely poem
Thank you. I appreciate the kind words.
welcome
Wow, very nice.
Thank you so much. I appreciate you reading this ๐
Powerful, profound and honest… I think you’ve had one of those moments you speak of here… ๐
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 ๐
‘Tis a beautiful spring day here in western NY! ๐
Fabulous. It is here as well. Headed out for some sunshine ๐