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Slab of Jade: Dedicated to Poets

Where are you poet?

You poetess?

I search and become everything:

 

A pen of the sun's fire

Writing on a slab of jade,

I come face to face with all poets,

The roots of their soul dividing

Themselves dissolving into words

Writing the passionate fire sitting

On pillars of clouds,

A thousand moons surrounding them

Each like some serpent god,

They write the darkness like

Guardians of the night,

A stallar vertigo into the words,

They become like flowers

Of the Resurrection and in a lightning

Flash I am on a terrace of gold

Watching over a field of flora

And the storm's of April's pains

Comes to them each as a moon

In the sorrowing takes each word

And swallows them into verses,

They are the testament of wounds.

 

And still even more,

All are alone in the abyss they all share,

One man stands tall and says,

"Alone with everybody!"

He smiles as each poet places themselves

In a whirlpool of time,

They find a moment invisible

And make it a mirror,

It reflects forevermore the broken

Images of their past, they piece

Themselves upon a verse of shadows,

A verse is born and a piece of them

Stays in the past.

 

Suddenly there are those who live,

They are reborn from the womb!

They see daylight in the sorrows

And find happiness in clusters,

A perfect memory where the man

Loved the woman, her touch is like

An immortal fire burning into the focus,

His touch is a cascade of rose petals

On her naked body......

 

The young poets gather,

The defeat the circular days,

Fantastically naive and flamboyant,

Their moments flare like a sun's

Lost kisses on magnetosphere's outer

Skin,

The procession of new pain

Fills the paper as they write an ancient

Language unbeknownst to them,

Their blood to papyrus, Sanskrit's

Unified language.

 

I see the poet's in their middle years,

Strong flavors mixed with heavy grief,

The clandar Is splattered in blood

While their dream sails away in paper boats

Sinking in the sea of forgotten hope,

They sculpt words of deep guts

That penetrate my spirit,

Time becomes a race against their pens,

Their fire blue into the jade

And life is lived on a string of theorise,

They become enlivened in the children,

Enormous mouthfuls of hope

Arisen from soils of regret,

And the perfect words ripen

Like a midsummer's harvest,

They spontaneously eat the fruit

Of life's labors and digest words

With seeds for the planting of more.

 

I turn my face in my search and see

The years turn golden,

These are the poets with life full

In experience and they write like

Youth writes, but written already

With eyes of indecipherable experience,

Their wounds are closed but written

In fresh blood, I could not understand!

They burn and are not consumed,

Their words are eternal in

Endless galleries of Picasso like

Verses, the words penetrate

Leaving me hopeful and confused.

I wonder if I would ever write

The light and the darkened like

They that balance both....

 

I find all poets in the middle of forever,

I see their walls of frightful memory,

Their home for tomorrow's bloom,

The self knowledge turning in

On itself and becoming wisdom,

They drown themselves in clarity,

Cling to audacious hope,

Remembering the nocturnal nightmare

Of the past, they are endlessly broken,

Always fixing themselves in words.

And I wrote a poem for them in

My mind:

Poets, you little gods,

The fire of life in your pen,

You write the existence

Forevermore on a slab of jade;

I see the souls and angels

Reading a book of every poem,

I see God reading to understand

His strange and wondrous creation

Called the poet.

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A poem I wrote years ago for poets everywhere. Thank you all for your words. They are life and light and therapeutic to my soul.

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