Visions



"Visions"

Poetry must speak to you
you must listen
not to what the mind speaks
but to what the heart delivers

some have the vision 
some do not
this is truth 
sometimes the truth is too hot

you think you are getting close

too close to the other who is touched
you are not for getting that close
to such insanity to be touched
by a poem that holds no rhyme

and so the story goes
life is a never-ending poem 
with no hard and fast rhyme  
the soft valued curves come and go 

there, in that place of listening
time has drawn no hard line 
you will feel 
that you must bargain with reason 

logic in that place
holds no importance
you will feel, and 
you must  listen, 

not to what the mind speaks
but to what the heart delivers  
Poetry must speak to you 
the better part of you must listen

some have the vision 
some do not
there in that place of listening
logic, like the mind, holds no importance


Candide Diderot. ‘24

musefree verse

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