Poetry Redefined

 

It can mean anything you want it to.
Kind of like love, or art, even science,
It philosophizes on its own existence
By the smart-ass biz of its wordings.

This is urgent. This is my career option.
First you've the need to meditate, on an
Abominable object, say a rose, a haircut,
An event, a place, a chronology of events,
A person, famous or nameless, on another
Poem, a painting, a god, a sinner, a dem-
On, a passion, a girl, a mystery, goddam
Ennui or disease, meditation itself, &c.

But finally here you meditate with words.
Usually with a singing soul that results in
Rhythms, rhymings, the moon that poetry
Flings. That leads us to a new direction.

So there you have it. Take it away now, be
A slave, a human. No amount of objectness
Can defy the vagueness, it is the rhetoric
That happens by concentration: the very
Magic that objectifies our reason. For is
Love your woman, or sheerly your heart?
Is physics but the grasping of what may be
                art?

 

 

 

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