Surrender

Surrender

A Poem by John Sullivan

burning bright
each a candle in the night...

what secrets are their to find
hidden in Al-Aqsa mind...

Torah's yoke
or
wooden cross

iron nails
and
silver's dross

I wonder
the 
hand
that
guides
this 
pen

which city
or
power
is
the poet's
ken

but
to
submit

where
all
whims
flow

some say
it's the place
that
wisdom
knows

a river runs beneath 
a place
where gardens 
grow

but last shall be first
and
first shall be 
last

and the sidewalk speaks
of all the places 
I'll go

© 2024 John Sullivan


Author's Note

John Sullivan
Crazy people gibberish

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I like this gibberish, but love the closing lines "and the sidewalk speaks of all the places I'll go". Very, well, "zen" ?. Anyhow, an enjoyable read. ~Jim

Posted 1 Day Ago


We poets have such an erratic relationship with the pen and the muse. But when it all materializes into a finished product, we are truly pleased, but not a minute before! I keep tweaking my work, and when I finally read it without doing so, then I know its complete. That's my gratification. Good to meet you, John! Your gibberish reads pretty cool, actually...so perhaps I'm crazy, too!

Posted 1 Week Ago


And when you question that pen and its flow, poetry is born!
The unending thoughts and questioning barely make sense to ourselves, but somehow when you introduce the pen to paper, the chaos ceases and sense begins to unravel the nightmare that is our thoughts.
When the pen finally finds rest, we find it too.
Superb write.

Posted 2 Weeks Ago



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Added on October 28, 2024
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