Minerva's Kiss

This a tribute to spoken word poetry and a few performers/wordsmiths I admire...Anis Mojgani, Alysia Harris, Sarah Kay.

I met my new love.

Lost in all the yesterdays of words

I've heard and spoken again.

Lost inside thesis brought to life.

Awakened anew

Bursting forth

Flush from solitude.

Rebirthed from the aches that lay naked

inside the echoes of your absence.

Words emptied and free

pouring forth the battles of gladiators

with no expectations of what is next.

Here am I Words reminding me

“questions are the only answers we need.”

 

My new love

Found in the breaths between.

The words whispered of doing it wrong.

Found in the lessons taught to your daughter

letting me know I can.

Assuring me I will.

saying you want to know all of what makes me, ME.

 

My new love

An old love once more

remembered,

refreshed,

renewed.

Thank you.

Awash in your words

walking through Paris in the rain.

Your Cadence.

This, this is my love letter to you.

spoken of words,

my words intimate

in murmurs sweet

Kissed in the shadows of the Louvre.

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

"Lost in all the yesterdays of words

I've heard and spoken again.

Lost inside thesis brought to life.

Awakened anew

Bursting forth

Flush from solitude.

Rebirthed from the aches that lay naked

inside the echoes of your absence.'
This poem awakens the senses and relieves the solitude...Thank you for sharing...:)

[DCT ponderings]

You are welcome. I wrote this after listening to a few great spoken word poets and that is exactly how I felt... senses awakened and relieved of my solitude. Thank you for the reflection.

[Sami Khalil]

My pleasure...:)

[Trigorin]

You have a good concept, but I don't particularly like all of the youtube videos you linked - unless they're your original work, all they're doing is cheapening the value of the piece. Some of your imagery, too, is a little off - feels stale and bland, especially the last line. A good effort, but still some room for improvement.

[DCT ponderings]

Thanks for the feedback. Removing the links to the videos is easy enough. Since a few of them are titles of the artist poems that inspired me I figure I will italicize them at the very least. I believe in room for improvement. That means there is room to climb and I don't want anyone to come away kissed by Minerva feeling stale. So the last line will be the first to be reworked.