A Black Plague of Poetry

I am a poet.  I am a madman

With a musket

Firing off my rounds of sound

Into the stormy seas.

Like a pirate

Taking over lost ideas

Like the falling masts

Of forgotten ships

And making them my own.

Because nothing is truly mine

Just something known from other minds.

That have been lost in the pages of time

Just for me to shed to different light

With words of hopeful wisdom and watered-down wit

That some might maybe think is just hopeless s**t

But that’s truly the joy of it

The difference is in the differences that it illicits.

Each word--a virus,

To infect us all.

Each letter, infection

For the disease to dissolve

Into your very blood

Into your very mind

Where it can fester and spread

To live out for the rest of time.

I want this to infect the world.

This is a black plague of poetry--
A flu of words flowing from page to brain,

Making the masses lose touch--  Insane.

My pen pokes with fowl pin pricks

Showing somehow just how sick

I am, but dolling it up with a bow

So, no one can truly know

What is hidden beneath.

So, they eat it up,

And then they scream;

Cuz they realize what they never believed.

That the madness hidden in my wandering mind

Makes all of them just like me.

All of us are maniacally thinking thieves

With falsely forgotten fearless dreams

That for an unlucky some shall ever remain unseen.

Reviews

[Deeper La'jik]

Creating a good piece seem to just flow from you with ease haha..very out of the box idea here too

[Dennis Shanaberg]

Thanks again!

[Coyote Poetry]

A outstanding poem. Good to read your words. I have been called a street Poet in the street of California in the nineties. Best honor of my life. Poet's need their words heard and read. I enjoyed the poem. Need more word-men to show the world there is the possibility of good and to dream. Thank you for the outstanding poetry. Keep writing my Poet friend.
Coyote

[Dennis Shanaberg]

Thanks. I've been writing a bit more uplifting stuff ...largely inspired by Watsky. He's a rapper/spoken word poet. I highly encourage checking him out.