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
- Woods by Wendell Berry
- To Thee, Old Cause! by Walt Whitman
- Autumn – The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon poem – Alexander Pope
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Шекспир – Как и любовь – Сонет 151
- Sonnet LXV by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Miss Davies: On being asked why she had been formed so little, and Mrs. A-so big.
- Robert Burns: Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky:
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- Cabbage
- To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho
- Зинаида Александрова – Подснежник
- The Truce of the Bear by Rudyard Kipling
- Beloved Ireland by Walter William Safar
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сняла с меня судьба
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