Best Idlest Poems

Whispering
thoughts to one's idlest fancy,
Imagining feelings
to one's innermost soul.
Babbling inanities,
crying insanities,
Wondering, wandering
alone and alone.

Where does it take one,
where does it want one,
where does it seduce one
along the strange source
of forbidden mysteries,
of unexplored paths,
of untouched feelings,
of ecstasies unknown,
or unthought of.

Where will it end?...

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I’ve crowned The Mighty Never in my guts,
For if and when are where I’ve always been—
To hang the Hows and crucify the Whats;
An oath I’ll take to ev’ry grave of skin.

The idlest illness in any patient;
The longest cry returning from the wind;
The first cold scream...

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Painstaking plumes of surest gait
To wield diamond steel over fate;
With slow pair of wit-guarded lips,
As otiose words sway great ships. 

Invincible flair and exacting knack
To stand out from the frothy pack;
Ochred with all blue-penciled skill,
For nabob’s dimwits do mimic still. 

With the far-scanning aquiline eye
That...

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