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
- Brink Of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
- Candle Lord
- Address to the shade of Thomson by Robert Burns
- Tiny Warrior by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Have Lost You
- Landscape At The End Of The Century by Stephen Dunn
- Heedless O’ My Love by William Barnes
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- Until You’ve Found Pain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The West Wind by William Cullen Bryant
- Владимир Британишский – Не избранностью, не особенностью
- The Rose Of Battle by William Butler Yeats
- I saw a man pursuing the horizon by Stephen Crane
- The Light By The Barn by William Stafford
- It was you, Atthis, who said by Sappho
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
