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
- Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein
- A New Age by W H Auden
- Омар Хайям – Будь хмельным и влюбленным всегда
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о конькобежце на короткие дистанции, которого заставили бежать на длинную
- Crawling At Sea by Vaishnavi Prakash
- To a person, they say, frigid, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: A celle que l’on fit froide by T. Wignesan
- Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) by Sarojini Naidu
- The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
- A Ballad of Our Lady (Ave Maria, gracia plena)
- A Sigh In The Night
- Fragment of an Ode to Maia poem – John Keats poems
- Василий Жуковский – Герой
- Threads of Gold by Ronald G. Auguste
- Delilah by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame:
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
