The Poetic Principle
by Mark Olynyk
I
walking on the edge
of a slice of life.
cultivating words
from a field of dreams.
a cross section of experience
provides the inspiration
for productions in verse.
letting loose a torrent of connections
spilling on the page.
a single drop is an atom
of knowing.
ideas on the verge of change
must pass by the gatekeeper.
a metaphor is a blind substitution
for the barely glimpsed
truth of imagination.
a convergence of the disparate
locked into the possible
harmony of art.
II
a subterranean call is a hoax
from the trickster
with stalagmite memories
hanging in a cavernous waste.
undercurrents of fugitive thought
flowing through a forest
of forgotten themes.
the fallen trees
of past generations
cry out to satisfy their vengeance
on the prophet of time
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Ольга Высотская – Я зубы стисну, губы закушу
- A Man Young And Old: II. Human Dignity by William Butler Yeats
- Алексей Ржевский – Рондо (И всякий так живет)
- Composed By The Side Of Grasmere Lake 1806 by William Wordsworth
- Hymn To Death by William Cullen Bryant
- Robert Burns: The Laddie’s Dear Sel’:
- Robert Burns: The Gallant Weaver:
- Vestiges poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- The Hesitating Veteran poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Mother
- SNAKE CHARMING by Satish Verma
- Portrait of a Boy by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Yarrow Visited by William Wordsworth
- The Poor House by Sara Teasdale
- If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
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