Only A Poet (+5)

Only A Poet…

  can change feelings into air,

  birthing new memory

 

Only A Poet…

  can transform night into day,

  lighting our spirits

 

Only A Poet…

  can define the indefinable,

  words meaning more than their letters allow

 

And only a Poet…

   can stab time in the heart,

   to bleed free and eternal

    —only a Poet

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)

 

 

Set Free

 

Poets…

Special Forces

Of the literary world

 

Rescuing confusion,

And then

Setting it free

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)

 

 

Symbiosis

 

Poetry,

collaboration of one heart

and one mind

 

Written symbiotic,

for many voices

to sing

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)

 

 

 

Its Only Cost

 

Here today and gone tomorrow,

the worm can quickly turn

 

A sun last set, all vision spent,

the sum of what you’ve learned

 

The baton is passed, your race has run,

the finish line now crossed

 

With memories firm and wishes free

—your soul its only cost

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)

 

 

The Present Reclaimed

 

Escape in a Poem,

freedom unchained

 

Words come alive,

distant sirens renamed

 

Brevity conquers,

all urge to refrain

 

As magic unfolds

—the present reclaimed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)  

 

 

Reach Out With Your Spirit

 

You call it a particle

He calls it a wave

They call it energy

—I call it light

 

You’re locked in physics

He’s locked in quantum

They’re trapped in theory

—blocking all sight

 

Let go the dissection

Let go the mechanics

Let go the empirics

—your eyes then to see

 

Reach out for the music

Reach out for what’s timeless

Reach out with your spirit

—set yourself free

 

(Villanova University Monastery: June, 2019)