PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

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Writing down my life's vocabulary

one word after another is easy when

remembering a long ago name, or place,

or recollecting the feel of items collected

annally for years.
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One dream fades and another

takes its place as if the world of words

were the wallpaper of ideation centers,

the paint for freshscraped images. The

prize exists inside the skull poured out

precise as sketches in quickly composed

notes, the casually written down, the

doodled, the jotted.

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Pick up the I-beam pace, rise above ennui,

and think in cold steel colors that enable

the ability to hear in emotions and conjugate

verbs like pouring concrete. See the sound

of every adjective ever invented. Choose

one adverb, discard it for another. Do

this until you have found the right one.

Build art around the best possible

cornerstone and become the able

architech, the best builder with letters

as tools. Date it and own it.

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Simple drawings, delicately filled in,

are layout and design blueprinted

and unscrolled on the work bench. Half

way through the stone masonry, the project

will almost match the original concept

born when the writing started.

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Originality happens when the mind is tapped

directly without doubt, clutter, or inordinate

amounts of sweat all over the desk, or the

distracting nuisance of quill feathers stuck

in the teeth.

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Lady A

07-12-17

925a

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