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
- Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- Robert Burns: Strathallan’s Lament:
- Asking For Roses by Robert Frost
- Низами Гянджеви – Увы, на этой лужайке, где согнут страстью я,
- Astrophel and Stella: XXXIX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Алишер Навои – Он любить мне запрещает
- The Law of the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
- Spanish Johnny by Willa Sibert Cather
- Fox
- Robert Burns: Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous:
- Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
- Johnny Rich by Will McKendree Carleton
- Альфред Теннисон – Morte d’Arthur
- A Channel Passage by Rupert Brooke
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