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Post is in response to Open Link Night ~ Week 34 prompt from dVersepoets
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dVersepoets Prompt – Open Link Night ~ Week 34
hosted by joseph hesch
open link night is a favorite, cause one can write anything, topic wise, within reason i assume 😉
tonight’s essay by the host at dversepoets pub does talk about the loneliness of a writer’s life, the interior-ness of it, and has some great quotes from hemingway and henry louis mencken
the latter says,
“while we are conversing and laughing with ourselves, we manage to shed our loneliness . . . to scatter it as we go along”
while the old man of the sea, adds,
“he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
so i of course have decided to play both devil’s advocate and confound’er 😉 meaning i meander ’round what “alone” might mean, and if it’s ever really avoidable, even when among everyone else…
it’s a tough question
yoga says we’re all one, yet many schools of yoga say the ego must be dropped behind, along with emotions and thoughts – not too appealing, i thought we were all one 😉
maybe, we’re meant to transform what we come in contact with, best we can anyways 😉
so my challenge, was to create something entertaining, spark some interesting imagery, roll some pleasing word-rhythms, and yet intrigue the question of do we really create our best work when most alone, or are we alone anyway, and aloneness is just an excuse…except when we really are alone and must cope with that –
it all confuses me
which is probably as clear as i can be about it!
poetry, at least, can entertain and provide diversions of form and sound and pace and image – we can at least feel good about leaning towards knowing, all along knowing, even sometimes proudly acknowledging, we really don’t know…
but we know we’d be cowards if we didn’t at least try 😉
so here’s my go –
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We Write Alone, We Speak Together…
great literature, like
all things moving and
pounding our hearts, like
the rounded moon striking
our earth, changes everything
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is it truly only possible to create
such impact, alone?
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are we not alone when we
breathe our own air
among a stadium
of screaming
fellow fans or
among a dance floor of
studied looks from glances
shrouded as distance checks
on tiny turns around the
floor?
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or
is it degree-of-aloneness like
the size of the moon that
strikes the oceans
making macro-
looks of drops of milk
drops
making crowns when splashed?
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but what of the Iliad or spoken centuries of
korans and bibles and testaments of
moons striking whole peoples’
dreams of survival
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were not those words whispered ’round
campfires sized like buildings
warming thousands
not
alone?
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did the utterances in public minimize
the force on civilizations germinating freedom
in ancient greece or royal rome?
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or can it be argued, posited, positioned,
speculated, post hoc, someone, a
man, a woman, a child,
first
wrote the words
into the air
alone
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to be spoken on the ancient widescreen
of burliness and wild hair spun to
whip the air with callings
unconcerned with
aloneness…
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can we ever not be alone
yet be with one
with
everyone?
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or
do we really speak in most
aloneness
when we hope
to be with that
someone
always with us when we’re alone…
© 2012 felipe adan lerma
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namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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