July 2019
Edward Ahern
salmonier@aol.com
salmonier@aol.com
Note: I write accessible poems, mostly short, that try and reach non-poets who can nod in empathy with the emotion or mood described. (Poets will nod in any case, affirming my right to write junk.)
Strewn Words
There is a fertile recess in my being
that shelters weedy thoughts
and emotions without edging,
and so long as I allow myself
to sense without pruning
and think without word killer
poetry will grow.
In their shelters swarms of poets
clutch handfuls of seed phrases,
hybrids of deviant visions,
and strew them in near blindness
in hope that a few will settle
inside other mind arbors
and germinate a second sight.
The Half-life of Writing
The urge to write, to convey
is our effort to create
word beings which we use
to try and establish
a demi-godhood which allows
our persona after death to loiter
in the enjoyment of those who dwell
on the concepts we concoct.
But what we write is rarely read
by those who still exist
and almost never by those who follow.
Better perhaps to appreciate
that the ephemera we propagate
swirl enticingly and dissipate.
Strewn Words
There is a fertile recess in my being
that shelters weedy thoughts
and emotions without edging,
and so long as I allow myself
to sense without pruning
and think without word killer
poetry will grow.
In their shelters swarms of poets
clutch handfuls of seed phrases,
hybrids of deviant visions,
and strew them in near blindness
in hope that a few will settle
inside other mind arbors
and germinate a second sight.
The Half-life of Writing
The urge to write, to convey
is our effort to create
word beings which we use
to try and establish
a demi-godhood which allows
our persona after death to loiter
in the enjoyment of those who dwell
on the concepts we concoct.
But what we write is rarely read
by those who still exist
and almost never by those who follow.
Better perhaps to appreciate
that the ephemera we propagate
swirl enticingly and dissipate.
© 2019 Edward Ahern
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