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Post is in response to the prompt, Poetics: 1999, from dVersepoets
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dVersepoets Prompt – Poetics – Poetics 1999
hosted by shawna from rosemarymint
inspired by “a book called The Best American Poetry, edited by David Lehman and Robert Bly” shawna explains that she hadn’t noticed the “1999” on the book’s cover, in the upper right hand side
understandable, i think 😉
shawna goes on to ask, what were we doing and thinking and loving or anything 😉 in 1999?
and adds a nice quote of concern from robert bly, this being a short excerpt of that quote, which easily merits a full reading,
“When the irreplaceable flavor of a given decade disappears, our language loses its vigor and becomes merely useful.…”
i won’t try and measure any vigor or descent into “merely useful” my work may have or not have now, but…
thinking back, watching the form and style i used from the early 90s on in my poems, i feel i’ve kept some of both of how i felt and how i expressed it, back then, before i became a young senior 😉
what has changed, is how and what i’m more aware of, which really makes me wonder what the heck is still on the road ahead!
i’m just gonna go ahead, and assume it’s good 😉
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In Movement, I Am the Tide
1999
we moved from
galveston on a day
so hot
we almost jumped the now-gone
pier-raised restaurant’s
deck railings
set outside over the gulf’s gentle waves
hurricane ike changed that
we arrived in
austin
that evening
as the first front of the ending year
gave us a freezing 32 degree
welcome
still
we were glad to be there
alive in so much
more
a
simple thing a move
more enjoyable ’cause we
didn’t fit ourselves into the change
of climates, social and nature’s
we rode into it absorbing
the switch from salt
to dry air
we
rode the tide of change
by being the tide
thus
we didn’t fall off our makeshift surfboard
we didn’t have and didn’t need
but
in 1999
we didn’t even know that
yet
awareness of what we already are
i still remind myself
is a process
© 2012 adam light creations / adan lerma
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