When Verlaine Speaks to You

Sing swift and savagely! Remember  

your day’s atramental muses, imagines

of where life ought to have led, if

only hand and feet had been as pitilessly

in sync as mind and heart can be….

needs to be spilled when ardor rages.  

Chose your words--the slings of love

as Eros nocked his bolts--without mercy

or trepidation of vision. Stalk

the stubble of Eden’s misplanted plots,

withered passions cropped too early,

too late in the season. Leave nothing

to chance or circumstance!

All the rest is nothing more than writing.

Ken e Bujold

Author's Note

last line is the last line from Verlaine's Ars Poetica

Reviews

[Arti]

Hi Ken,

Hope you are doing well and you have changed your poetry skills looking much better, and you hav got unique style as like your smile. I was shocked why bioinformatics, there is no illness that cant be cured with medicine or miracle.

How is my dear ones hope they are getting enough fun, I am doing good, with lot of artificial suppressants and boosting moods. For few days i need to continue when my rain from clouds touch the earth.

keep safe it's getting hot.

Thank you,
Jessy Jacob.

[Vol]

Ken!
WOW! Everyone wants to know what to do with their lives, And there you are! "Sing swift and savagely!" March right over thoset imes you stumble, pay them no mind, eyes ahead arms spread wide, take it all in, and wipe your chin on your sleeve!
Excellent! This is why I lOVE poetry!

[emmajoygreen]

'Leave nothing to chance or circumstance!'

Question self, question habit, question reality, supposition, expectation, question question. Perhaps? Why not? I truly understand but... what happened to freedom to.. adventure.? Even love and all its unsubtleties
are questioned to a point of no chance, no nothing.. but, hey.. long live that very last kiss!

[Arundass TP]

I liked last line. Poem is good. Good work