Poetry Is.......A MIC Write #53

" The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places,
and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water, whose waters never fail "




When was the last time you saw a crooked rainbow
or a broken glass spilling your much waited for drink out,
or the last time you couldn't take love so you had to let it go?
When was the last time you treated yourself to bitter drops of rain
as you walked through it..attempting to erase the pain?
What about the last time you cried out, "No Fair"
from some irreconcilable hurt and pain?
How many times has something given especially to you...
or you earned......and couldn't enjoy it...?
Emotions overwhelming you so, you didn't know what to do,
so you watched all your dreams.....
plunge to the floor


This is Poetry
....
 and Poetry is this

.....a mixture of confession....

of wisdom and ignorance
admiration and detest-ment
prose and screaming
fear and adoration
wit and conceit
courage and cowardice
dreaming and being
feelings and killing
appealing and forgiving
Poetry is beauty...personified

Poetry is
...words.....
shaken and stirred
that take you right to the threshold
of everything you heard
and found out
it didn't have to be real

Was there ever a time
that you were left
.....just breathless......
the shatter of reality you couldn't stop
and no matter how much you lost
the other shoe never would drop
Poetry shows the code to what we all know
We gonna keep on winning, and losing
choosing, and being not chosen
We will be free to be hasty,
or take our time.
 free to disagree,
or take up a cause
or to decide....
to do anything at all.

When we to cry one second,
and laugh in the next
When we are free to release the tension,
and emotions
and mention our likes and dislikes
and close the space between love and hate
and wrong and right..on the first date
....
so it is
.....when we are free....
to give all we are worth a voice
or share nothing at all
......
that is when we're saying something

That.....is when I am saying
what Poetry is to me












jakuper(3/15/12)