All That Nonsense I’ve Just Said

How much is the illusion of meaning
and how much is the seduction of sounds?

Too much an obsession with reasoning
will exhaust, bore, and fatigue passion’s hounds.

But, just to seize and please the mind at ease
and gently freeze with birds and bees that breeze
that moves heart with art and the whole soul
to lose sleep, wail and weep and rock and roll,
may titillate but rarely dilate
or facilitate that urge to procreate;
nor relate existence to one’s fate.

Rather one must combine admonitions
with those patterned hypnotic conditions
in reasoned emotional renditions.

Reviews

[Robert Trakofler]

when I am in the zone I meditate a lot before hand usually i ponder a word or a phrase and i just start to scribble & scrawl I'm not thinking of a thing it just happens a sort of (for lack of a better term) ..automatic writing. I find when i try to write in form I get too bogged down so I've kinda got this hybrid writing style now:/ when I apply all above said to life all below applies also I think one of the things I came to realize much later on in my writing universe is that poetry is a state of mind (at all times)

[Robert James]

A decade or more ago I read a lot of books on brain research, split brain studies and I can't remember what all; but what I came away with was a belief that our conscious mind is what our brain creates so that we have a sense that we know what is going on. However, the vast bulk of our creative thought is going on out of sight. If an important decision needs to be made, I tell my wife: Let me think about it. Then I forget about it. Eventually she says, Well? What do you think? And I’ll give a reasoned presentation for deciding one way or another. Poems themselves tend to bubble up unbidden, too often in the shower. I’ve gotten very comfortable living with what seem like a number of very remarkable persons nearby but usually just out of reach.

[Robert Trakofler]

I love it