Millard Lowe Poet Prose Poetry

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          TWINED POETIC MOTHERING AND FATHERING

 

               My heart is inditing a good

                matter…my tongue is the

                pen of a ready writer.

                      (Psalm 45:1)

 

                               I

               Poetic Intentions

 

        Sitting here waiting, fogged brain—

Like an anxious womb—craves

Impregnation of creativity:

Pleading the fertilizing genius thereof,

To usher in the seed of the birth

Of the long desired poem:-

 

It’s soon painfully realized

That poetry is of the nature

Of the sowing mind, deciding

When, where, and indeed how,

The midwife of revelations will be 

Called to monitor delivery:-

 

The crisis of unawareness cured—

In awareness—I now cheerfully

Ponder in sage contemplation,

As the spirit of the poetic midwife

Soothes my anxious, suffering nature

With the coming joy of poetic parenthood:-

 

                      II

         Poetic incubation

 

Here, woodshedding in the cave of self,

My pregnant mind seems to have gone

Into an eerie state of suspended animation;

Leaving excited, wiggling words, kicking

And loudly jumping around, as if they

Where in a kind of drunken stupor:-

 

And when so aroused, such words seem

To rise and hop onto a roving lexical

Poetic merry-go-round: whorl pooling

And wave frothing towards waiting shores

To be inked and moisturized into awareness

And hydrated sands of beaching enlightenment:-

 

Poetic minds do not just exist;

Rather, they are living mind-wombs,

Waiting the fertilizations of wordings—

Deeply sown in endometrial cognition—

To be reaped into waiting juicy fruits

Of divine wisdom and navigating guidance:-

 

The poem is not merely

A mental shot-out ejaculation:-

Rather, it’s the result of spiritual incubation 

In the mind’s womb, and when it’s deemed so,

The Creator breaks water's flowing poetic blooms:

The man-shed, and she-cave, the mere waiting rooms:-

 

TWINED POETIC MOTHERING AND FATHERING

	

          TWINED POETIC MOTHERING AND FATHERING

                            My heart is inditing a good
			    matter…my tongue is the
			    pen of a ready writer.
                                    (Psalm 45:1)

		         I
             Poetic Intentions

Sitting here waiting, fogged brain—
Like an anxious womb—craves
Impregnation of creativity:
Pleading the fertilizing genius thereof,
To usher in the seed of the birth
Of the long desired poem:-

It’s soon painfully realized
That poetry is of the nature
Of the sowing mind, deciding
When, how, and indeed, where,
The midwife of revelations will be 
Called to monitor delivery:-

The crisis of unawareness cured—
In awareness—I now cheerfully
Ponder in sage contemplation,
As the spirit of the poetic midwife
Soothes my anxious, suffering nature
With the coming joy of poetic parenthood:-

                      II
         Poetic incubation

Here, woodshedding in the cave of self,
My pregnant mind seems to have gone
Into an eerie state of suspended animation;
Leaving excited, wiggling words, kicking
And loudly jumping around, as if they
Where in a kind of drunken stupor:-

And when so aroused, such words seem
To rise and hop onto a roving lexical
Poetic merry-go-round: whorl pooling
And wave frothing towards waiting shores
To be inked and moisturized into awareness
And hydrated sands of beaching enlightenment:-

Poetic minds do not just exist;
Rather, they are living mind-wombs,
Waiting the fertilizations of wordings—
Deeply sown in endometrial cognition—
To be reaped into waiting juicy fruits
Of divine wisdom and navigating guidance:-

The poem is not merely
A mental shot-out ejaculation:-
Rather, it’s the result of spiritual incubation 
In the mind’s womb, and when it’s deemed so,
The Creator breaks waters’ flowing poetic blooms:
The man-shed, and she-cave, the mere waiting rooms:-

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