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
- Fairy Land iv by William Shakespeare
- The Old Maid by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet CXXIV by William Shakespeare
- WARMING UP by Satish Verma
- Шекспир – У бедной музы красок больше нет – Сонет 103
- The Times Are Nightfall poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
- Far Within Us #2 by Vasko Popa
- Medicine to my brain poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Irish Unionist’s farewell to Greta Hellastrom in 1922 poem – John Betjeman poems
- The Bull Of Bendylaw by Sylvia Plath
- Before Sleep poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Olney Hymn 61: The Narrow Way by William Cowper
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- A Florida Sunday. by Sidney Lanier
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