A Good Earthy Tease

I have nothing against 
traditional presentations
of poetry – 
              Though, not for me! – 

personally liking a winged start: 
                                projecting freely...as a good
           enema or vomit....

letting my expressions splatter loose;
somehow mentally, spiritually willing 
them to frenzied, explosive evacuation – 
spewing them, by simple prayer, or devout
incantation, trusting they will somehow, 
miraculously, morph into intelligible, literary 
art for the less pompous man – 
 
               Indeed, I feel poetry, like a painting, as
with a sculpture is an extension of one's bleeding,
pleading, confounding, lovable, adorable blood-pumping 
absolutely essential-circulatory-driving-part – 
                 
Words coming in all shapes and manner 
of phrases; but mine, truly written to 
slide off numbered pages – composed 
for street-type rebel-folk – leaving more 
learned forms to Academia's demagogues
and sages; tenured tyrants of esteemed
taste, whose treasures, to me, often have
little more appeal than dime-store paste – 

So, let the suits and ties have theirs –  
while my fellow Loin-clothes the choice
of these – not advocating necessarily for naked truth, 
when it comes to all poetry – but do enjoy also
a good earthy tease –

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022



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Date: 1/20/2022 7:16:00 PM
I enjoyed reading this delightfully expressed poem, Joe. I also love the title. Thanks so much for sharing, Evelyn
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Joe Dimino
Date: 1/21/2022 3:22:00 AM
Thank you, Evelyn; it was fun to let go, so to speak. Thank you my friend. Blessings!
Date: 1/20/2022 5:15:00 PM
This is fabulous free verse. As I see it, we write in the way God gifted us for our talent. As much as I'd like to write YOUR way, I am not usually able to accomplish it, so I am stuck with traditional forms, but I do try to make them fun and contemporary! I love nearly all forms and almost all themes and I love this one!
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Joe Dimino
Date: 1/20/2022 5:40:00 PM
Thank you, Andrea; I'm just having fun, experimenting with thought and feelings -- tomorrow I may write something totally different, saying I hate Free Verse, and God, what was I thinking! I love your poetry. I love the Sonnets in particular -- Blessings my friend!
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