William Kelii Kekaula Poet Free verse

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Poetic Form: Free Verse

Inspired: 2024 August 05

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Name

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       My name
                      is an inanimate object
                   whenever I am alone
                                or when I find myself in a crowd
                       clueless as to who I am
    thus
                  I remain nameless.


         Pronoun's
               are not my name
      per se
                    but it identifies me
    thus
        directly
         "Hey you"
             or indirectly
                   "Excuse me please."


                    Establishing contact
                  and acknowledgment
                           in some way, shape, or form
                               animated both objective phrases
                    as personifications.


               Among familiars
                  my name exposes me
                                    to my paternal and maternal father's
                   or my grandfather's
             which in turn
                 goes further back
                      until recorded history
                  bear no relevancy.


                       One can go further back
                                   before writing skills had developed
                                and before drawing on cave walls
                and even further
                                           when sounds and acting out were all they had
                            facing death all around them
                                until they gave each object life
              by giving it a
     name.

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