Friday, 8 December 2023

from the caverns of a mind

 from the caverns of a mind


the poem as a stalactite 

growing slowly 

veined by thoughts percolating 

through the canaliculi of time’s mind

drip drip drip

no draft in the cavern of an eye

or the measured flow

of a subterranean stream

such are the blind fish of thought 

sounded but dark as no night

can ever be as deep as fingers

in the chaos of trees on a night sky

the wink of a peripheral star 

not there when you stare up

into the abyss of night fallen 

down down down

the layers are laid

never would such a poem grow in light

for like minds attract the dilution of tributary

plink plink plink 

time time time

forming forming forming

at the cavern’s mouth they gape

at the single multifarious poem

hence whence narrows eyes

as the dammed trickles explode forth

the sun is out the sky is blue

but the poet is nowhere about

was it you was it you was it you

or was it me


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