Joy of Poetic Death

I will die if I wake up in a dream
         and find myself on the page of a book.


I will die if I wake up
     and find this is a dream.
I will die if I wake up
     and find myself on a book.


I would be dead if I awoke
      and found my dream so gone.
May be I would still die
       if I discover it was only a dream.


I want to stay awake and be up
       when come death to carry me away.
I want to live my life on the lane;
       the clear lines on a page.


On the fast lane I dwell indeed,
I want to live a thriller and die
       be dead and come to live again,
Creating rhyming lines of epic poetry.


I really need to die soon and live fully
       in the transformation of light and dark
       that illuminates life and death.....
Experiencing the joy of my own death.


If life and death was purely a dream
       one that could kill me dead
       on the virgin page of my open book....
Then in poetry I would feel the joy.


If the virgin lifestyle is an empty dream
       then in death I pray for an open book
       which is where I truly long to live:
Painting experiences of my eternal life.


For sure I want to live and die
        transversing the yearning lane
        that defines the parameters of my poetry
When I wake up and just find myself dead.


Poetry is surely an artistic lifestyle
When you die and soon out you fly
Observing your experiences from the cloudy sky
Then you relive your life in lines of poetry.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Bateman Avatar
July 24, 2016 at 2:54 PM
Messoh, Keep Spilling Ink!! Your last stanza is classic for sure -- it ties the ending lines of each of your previous stanza all together. (At least this is my interpretation.) Keep writing and keep experimenting with different poetic styles. I really enjoyed your free verse here. Excellent Work!! Seven/FAV!! Best Always, Gary
Vincent Avatar
August 17, 2016 at 2:51 PM
Yes my brother the most powerful message of the poem is in the last line of each stanza and the last stanza is a descriptive simplification to explain all the art in the whole piece heavily condensed. Thanks for your visit and your read.
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