This Poem was Submitted By: David S Harewood On Date: 2000-09-19 18:37:11 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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(I'd)

settle to your occasion,  wrap my ego in rice-paper and throw it into Erie, set the whole thing on fire; wait for you to stop me. write a sonnet fourteen different ways, let each emotion sing per line and breathe the couplet to just start again. even a villanelle—a chorused, rhythmic scheme-- and ask your Muse to judge it, tap you into veins,  let my blood congeal; meditate you, glow you, feel that only thing deprived of me Bliss! until you’ve seen—and after I’ve touched—potential; pack you, roll me up around and let some celestial bum get the buzz on us;   tab you till the camel stops swirling! Have myself de-thorned,  diurnalized, and shred that  glitter stench away! Or if you want, you’ll start before, but have me keep the roots, the soil, water, minerals; take the atoms, build me from the best you like: take a leaf from Whitman, remove Ginsberg’s stamen (if you think he’s there,) give me Morrison’s chlorophyll and let each bloom be Vivaldi’s, Wagner’s, Beethoven’s, Mahler’s, Sondheim’s, Coltrane’s. . . Break the root if growth wasn’t what you wanted                                                      (Break my pen, too—eat the paper                                                        if I’ve let pride sojourn north) Lie awake to tell you stories, have you hear me breathe this way:  hs-ssss  sit, my eyes counting your stars, or having them clap to save you. Listen to you lament, “handle,” be emburdened and enraptured as I am.

Copyright © September 2000 David S Harewood

Additional Notes:
I'd originally intended for this piece to be the opening to a "sonata," then decided against it. The only real question I would have for you as readers would concern making this a complete piece without such a trite close. . . Thanks a lot!


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