This is not an example for my current contest called, 'If it wasn't for poetry.
Written for Ink Empress's contest, Stars of Clarity -
'Without poetry for me, stars have no clarity.'.. Silent One.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. George Oppen If it wasn't for poetry, how would we portray stars of clarity? Moon would appear silently ordinary, how would we express that which is contrary? Verses without stardust shimmer would be horrid, no metrical composition would sound torrid. No sapphire skies nor turquoise tides. No ivory shores nor firefly guides. No magic of butterflies dancing under moonlight. A travesty of no lullabies to ease before midnight. Horizons would appear blank, dismal and dark - your muted muse would forfeit their spark. If a poet's conscience suffers a premature death, how would you honour their quill's last breath? How would you express that painful goodbye? No legacy for our words to poetically beautify. Unable to honour memories of the deceased - an unwritten elegy cannot praise a masterpiece. Autumn would just be a modified season. Spring slowly blossom without a reason. Summer would bring no wonder in flowers. Winter would be grey with freezing showers. Would music suffer from atrocious lyrics, unmetered songs only lead to hysterics. Would poetic love exist? Would our lips have ever kissed? No expressions to defeat hate. No epodic justice to fate. No sweet sonnets to revere. Shakespeare's world would disappear. Romeo would not woo Juliet. Literature students would forget bards who bled ballads before us - what would lovers have to discuss? No angst or alliterations. No 3am damnations. No syllable creations. No lustful flirtations. An end to narrations. All lost translations. If there were only ugly words, would it be the end of singing birds? No emancipation of the oppressed. No catharsis for the depressed. Hearts would repress and suppress. Demons would stress and digress. If it wasn't for poetry, I would still be a mystery. I would not speak in rhymes, there would be nothing to define. My soul a misunderstood metaphor, drowning in an inkless reservoir. Life would become a burden, as petals die in my poetic garden and after everything has been said and done, there would be no Poetic One.
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