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Paint and Poetry

I 
Throw myself into my poetry
Fling myself until I bleed
Until I'm knee deep in similes 
Until from my eyes seep seas of salty seeds
Spiraling in the double helix of hyperboles 
Hyper..
Hy..per..ven..
Hyperventilating
I Am the paint
I Am the poetry
I'm abstract and multi-hued
With 60 shades of blue 
My imagery is true 
I have no apologies for you
Just a PSA 
You may leave with paint splatters on your brain 
That's the vice of a voyeur
That's the limerick liquor
My paint doesn't fit quietly in the canvas corners 
I careen violently across the borders
I will not be quartered
I cannot be contained
My greens blast from my being 
Shooting my stanzas
Crashing the canvas 
Like a smoothie gone loony
My reds are marooning 
Crooning, in crimson 
Til they collide into the vision
My metaphors are mushrooming into magentas 
Bursting through a plethora of placentas
Just ta'
Just ta'
Just to permeate my purple
Sending me in circles 
Now my symbols are cyphering 

Cyphering...
    Cyphering...
Cyphering...

Glimpses of gold rings
Grinning at gravity 
The effervescence of my espresso 
Drinks in drops of yellow 
Jupiter is live tonight 
Poetry personified 
I am She and She is I 
And my black is my pride 
And my black is my flight 
The Raven Always Flies 
STILL, I rise
That's the rhythm of my reprise 
And the juxtaposition 
Of my purpose and my passion 
Equals ascending acceleration
So my colors burst through the prism 
Because the light is right
And the tide is high 
The moon is in my eyes
The sun is on my side 
And I, am Flight

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Al Juman

July 8, 2016 at 2:45 AM

Excellent--well done

DM Babbit

July 7, 2016 at 3:46 PM

Welcome, love the presentation of so much colored imagery and crooning in crimson.

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July 7, 2016 at 1:58 PM

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