encounter

encounter

 

 

 

words in assembled multitude

search direction

 

Jennifer Lawrence key

like a mocking consonant that skips

in syllabic sign

motions them to follow

 

and the letters in formation

begin to attack the poet's mind

a cacophony of inner sound

the shrill sentiment

lays the page to waste

and in the end, among the ruins

 

a few phrases lie wounded

scars of the past bandaged with rhyming tourniquets

they heal just enough

 

to wake the imagination

into thinking it has won the war.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

8/815

Reviews

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it's all about perception, even for the poetic mind... every word and line is a battle but the war is only won in incremental moments, as fleeting as the next wave of thoughts... some make it to the infirmary and onto the next battle; some retire; others never make it at all...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, FT.

j.

[Alfred Kukitz]

Perhaps the battle but the war goes on and on!

Regards,
Al

[jacob erin-cilberto]

so true, thank you for your words, Al.

j.

[marcus]

the title had me thinking ufo's for some reason. But I liked this, it was very deep!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, marcus.

j.

[Pryde Foltz]

Victories are but illusions of time, Lovely work, Jacob.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Pryde.

j.

[terry smith]

Writing is the bandage that allows many of us to heal...I like this very much.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

it really is...thank you for your word, terry.

j.

[W R Stowe]

So life like as when I had phrases humping inside my mind and couldn't sleep until I got up and wrote them down and they were actually about someones life I later met great piece Jacob

Bill

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Bill.

j.

[W R Stowe]

your quite welcome Jacob

Bill

[Lydia Shutter]

WOW...the words, the syllables, the letters....they haunt until they are written just the way THEY choose to be. The poet is the vehicle. Now we have Jennifer Lawrence in charge? Alrighty then.....can I have George Clooney? LOL Great metaphor. Lydi**

[jacob erin-cilberto]

he's taken now, Lydi---sorry....another choice? ha ha...

thank you for the kind words, and the smile...

j.

[Lydia Shutter]

Yea, he is, but not in MY fantasy! 😎

[Cassie]

I always like your symbolism. You are a very good poet.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you are kind, Cassie...
thank you.

j.