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
- An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
- Яков Полонский – Последний вздох
- The First Part: Sonnet 12 – Ah! burning thoughts, now let me take some rest, by William Drummond
- Portrait From The Infantry
- The Heart Breaking
- Her Vision In The Wood by William Butler Yeats
- Валерий Брюсов – Годы в былом
- Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat poem – John Keats poems
- In Plaster by Sylvia Plath
- Holy Thursday (Experience) by William Blake
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Прометей
- Crowned poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. by Walt Whitman
- Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars by Robert Burns
- Нина Воронель – Не слишком ли ты многого
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