What is the poem?
The words which ring with rhyme:
the unending stanzas whose meaning
thrives beyond the limits of the lines?
The metaphor which spills beyond the fullstop?
The strokes of ink, bold and courageous,
immortalizing the blank paper
with radical and rash wisdom?
Just strokes and words.
But are those qualities of words?
Unending, and overflowing.
Emotionally limitless.
Hanging forever in the air.
No. That is not the poem.
Neither are those words, nor
the gaps in between.
The poem is not the idea living within,
it is not the strokes of ink.
The poem is the part of ambiguity:
a part of its writer's soul.
Each one which written is a horcrux:
a part of the soul hidden within its words.
By writing, the poet-
he does not immortalize the paper:
He immortalizes himself: lively with rhyme.
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Comments2
What a beautiful and thought provoking poem! Well done
Thank you Salvia; it is the result of a random thought this morning.... It truly is odd how the human mind works
Well written and well thought out this poem speaks of the spirt of the poem the feeling encased in words. Very nicely written
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