Talking
We talk poems, or poems talk us,
The talk is submerged
in everyday speech,
it is always writing,
always traveling on the breath
always announcing from a mute heart.
Try not to be bored,
with the seemingly,
mostly mundane ripples
atop of much deeper waves.
Try to be kind to the complaints
and ramblings
of the body/mind house of mirrors,
that kind of talk needs to be translated,
interpreted by songbirds
that fly not this outer world.
Likewise, all logical discussion
is code, a way of expressing
the questionable in a thousand
variations of 'maybe'.
All answers to logical theories
must be unravelled, revealed
by poetry
or they are but a smokescreen
something to be penetrated
within a cosmic poem.
Listen, listen as deeply as you can.
Birds are singing, waves are crashing
upon our senses.
There is a talking that the mind is unaware of.
Listen, it is you, it is all you
happening now, you talking
you listening
as you scribble on the air.
Those moments you give to yourself
are the words of your everyday God,
- that poem that both talks
and listens.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2023
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