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
- Erin, Oh Erin by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Новые левые, мальчики бравые
- The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry
- Василий Жуковский – Бедный певец
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along by Robert Browning
- When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29) by William Shakespeare
- The Water Crowvoot by William Barnes
- Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Маяковский – Тресты
- One Great Christmas Verse, Three Incomparable Gifts
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference by William Cowper
- At the Zoo poem – A. A. Milne poem
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