EremitismA Poem by Wilyem Clark
What language infects these printed pages?
It cannot be English, for those who read them Leave with a basic incomprehension. The stack of music I've composed: What tonality? Those who've heard it Sink into blank expressionless funks, For neither noise nor tunefulness Has moved them to criticize or praise. Those novels yonder, stories too: So cryptic that they could only be The products of alien civilizations Millennia dead and inaccessible? Eremitism, my strongest virtue: With paper pillars I build my temples, Invisible, lofty, surpassingly gorgeous, Wherein I kneel, I pray, I lucubrate, I lustrate my life by the sacred breaking Of bread and ties to humanity. © 2024 Wilyem Clark |
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Added on June 5, 2024 Last Updated on June 5, 2024 AuthorWilyem ClarkWashington, DCAboutI've been writing poems since my teens (now in my 60s) and prose since the 1990s. It's been hard finding decent forums online--the free websites too often suffer sudden deaths. My "published" works ar.. more..Writing
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