Prose Poem – Poetic Objects (My Beard), Poem Prompt Response via dVersepoets

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“The Object Is…” : Original poetry, linked in response to dVersepoets.com site’s prompt post, “The Object is Poetics.”

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the object is… : original poetry

if the words endure, they do so because they link the links –

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The Prompt, “The Object is Poetics,” from dVersepoets

prompt introduced by mark kerstetter

“This week’s task is to focus on an object in your environment, preferably an object from the natural world, to really examine it, to try and see it with utmost clarity, and to wait for the word, that first word or phrase that seems to capture, for you, the essence, in language, of that object. Then use that word or phrase to construct a poem that gives a voice to that thing.”

the article has several pen and ink like illustrations visualizing the idea

plus prose poetry examples are nicely provided, including excerpts and links for more by the french writer francis ponce

it’s very much like what i try to do in “parts” of my little series writings on waking and my daily gratitude musings

my own slant, thinking about this because of the prompt, is i see that idea, yes, i really like doing this sort of thing, finding the words to “voice” an object, but i also wish to then float that voice and see what else it calls from me, what connections of any kind, feelings, thoughts, memories –

sometimes there’s much, sometimes just a tidbit…

but that’s how everyday life is anyways 😉

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The Object Is…

not shaving for a day or two too

long

isn’t in my best interests,

when i’m interested –

thick white hairs are rapidly

crowding their younger darker heirs

at times one thick bright stump out alone

along the olive skin waiting like crop rotation

nearby three thin wires each a differing shade of

unshaven, cluster inside a pore patiently paring bets

to see

who will survive –

tilling the hairs with thin steel blades

in the direction they tend to grow

means more hairs escape

the cut

but so does a skin beginning to burn

less pimpled now at sixty

more skimpy in

willingness

to heal

i’d think the bristly beard hairs

and

my prissy aging ancient skin

would compromise

they don’t, so

i do it for them

shave only when i have to, once

every few days, morphing me

from satin saint to prickly

pear bear man every

few days –

my man’s face is a seasons of its own

it seems

in just the time it takes to view a few looks

in the morning mirror

© 2012 adam light creations / adan lerma

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Yoga

so much is said in yoga of the objects in our lives, including our thoughts and emotions, as being something to just let slide by, unvalued as “lasting” –

though it certainly wouldn’t be prudent to remain obsessed with a thought or feeling to the point of incapacity, i’ve never thought it was possible we would only be on this earth to simply endure being here…

it makes more sense to me that, whatever we can infuse with consciousness, much like the poetry prompt exercise from dversepoets, gains from our existence –

and we in turn, absorbing an objects own inherent essence, allows us to likewise be infused…

my guess is :

our connectedness is, and our awareness is becoming 😉

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

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