The Souls Longing Wish To Write Its Poetry
** The Soul’s Longing Wish to Write Its poetry **
The poems sleep
Together in a wreath of curled words,
Poised awaiting, allied, all set to affect
Their impact
Summoned
From the depths of a restless wish to speak;
Like a lay of Ring-Tailed-Lemurs
— A span of fur in their dreams —
Jostled about, awakening
With whiskers and ear-tips twitching —
Like poems — nudged
By a distant alerting
Call to move from their deep well-springs
On to heaven’s higher ground.
The lemurs lift their heads:
The alarmed pounding
— Of their beating hearts altogether —
Reverberates — carried far
By breeze flowing air
Beyond their lair — Thus
Ready to spring up —
Ready to sniff and dash!
Ready to leap. One by one they run
To skatter, skittering
Out from a cherished hiding
Into light
Along paths poems may take
Into opening spaces
Of a new dawn’s graces
— Urging by calls to advance
Into knowing, letting
The Soul also speak
Faith’s intoned lines…
To lead a motion through discoveries
Before a third struggle
To surfaceo
Before drowning
Dissolves the reaching words into howling ~
And
Startling every tree’s sleeping leaves
To jitter and blink
With a-quivering question ~
What voice here surges
To create such sincere lyrics
From within our penning poets,
Hearing the aches of humanity’s advancing?
But, ‘tis not our poet’s heart that sings!
Neither is it the mind nor memories ~
‘Tis the soul itself sending poetry,
Wanting its Voice to be written;
Hoping to be known;
True to its glorious source —
Creator of All, including
The Word —
So…do…learn…listen…transcribe…
As the Soul’s Voice alive,
Alive, indeed,
Clearing the bounds of a forest —
Ready to thrive.
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Contest, the Soul’s Wish List, Unseeking Seeker
(c) sally young eslinger 12/26/2022
Thanks be to God…
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