Yes Obscessed With Poetry
*** Yes…Obscessed with Poetry! ***
As the moon was releasing finale beams
And the sun was dressing
For her later, post-solstice, winter rise…
I had not yet slept, kept
Awake by epiphanies of poetics —
My tireless pen scribbling
Down
the rushing lyrics to their
Rising
score.
Then, as the clouds refused to part
To reveal our sun’s well-warming
light at her mid-day height,
I was excitedly expounding
About the knowlege my night
with poetry had brought, revealing,
So i thought, some meaning
about the human psyche,
More than just matters of words.
But, beyond the import
Of Poetry growing a range of spring
Violets across my nigh clear pages,
An afternoon’s gust replete
With January hail,
Fell over me after
I exclaimed, “Amazing?”
and to hear in response:
“Look, you’re obscessed with poetry.
I’m not. And I was
just wondering how long
before quiet would —“
Eliminate the wondering…
As (justdays before Christmas), on
A cold afternoon, a storm passed through
The city with little warning.
Flashed lightning twice over
The sky, and sounding but once,
Thunder struck us dumb.
Quiet?
I hear inner gusts
Smack my tears against the windows’ panes.
My amusement is drowned within the room.
Quiet?
While I could scream — Yes!
Yes! I am obscessed
With poetry
With God
With my beloved, and our pups
With drawing, dance and music, too…
But, foremost, I am obscessed —
To say and stay so,
With living
With surviving
in blessed Hope —
on past the trials of ailments
and the hard gales of age —
While
Thankful to poetry — perhaps
anong the least of most of these,
For its patiently waiting ways —
Within the All and everyone one of us —
So we hold images in our dreams of seeing
Violet buds spring their heads
Above a layer of January snow,
And we might hear the poems’ rise
In its brilliance
From each opening purple petal.
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(c) sally you g eslinger 1/ /2023
Thanks be to God…
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