1. Notes: 16 / 1 year ago 

   Ode to a Poet in absentia

   The dull gray of a graphite pick frees
   iceberg shards, most peculiarly frozen
   into a faint sky’s blue, at the freeze
   tainted, the most ragged are chosen;
   formed into his iris and into his lens
   A vestibule with clarity of focus held
   fast, beyond any writers’ or any pens’
   ability to describe or to have compelled
   A cold calculating logic duly contends
   with compassion, in his gaze expelled
   an internal battle raging and portends
   thought most fierce and oh so impelled
   A theater of war and drama transcends
   the visible and the obviously withheld
   for in this last bastion of sight ascends
   a grand intelligence with ego swelled
   
   Coppered acorn shade
   Strands flow, cascade;
   wild unkempt hair with
   similarly untamed spirit
   Like adventure’s myth,
   carelessness seen in it
   Let blow about in wind;
   thrown around in spring
   So wary to let rescind
   his mane, so like a king
   who will hear no affront
   to the extravagance of
   his crown, and mustn’t
   field those lavish bunch
   who cast such judgment
   in hypocrisy to confront
   Chosen unsophistication
   shows ironic affectation!
   Defense against the brunt
   manifests as a cold front
   with his sarcasm so blunt
   in self-absorbed covenant
   
   Visage pockmarked with mistake,
   neglect and the toll of experience
   As tanks become battle scarred;
   surface scratches to a resilience
   And so, he’s thus visibly marred
   but with function intact, so far
   Please toss a coin to this bard
   Beautiful music written despite
   physical affliction, ignore plight
   of earthly body and so instead
   hear his words and see his fight
   Read his poems by candle light
   Through pores the song’s bled
   and in his veins the onyx flakes
   of its taint float by and shred
   his soul and imbue lover’s aches
   So that the pain might sustain
   continual angst and heartbreak
   to fuel the artistry’s costly reign

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