PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

"First, he says, 

first and foremost,

the cub has it's roar, 

or did I mean Lion? 

He tells me, 

performs for me, 

the vivid imagery

of the courage and strength, 

trying to give unto another.

No script, no paper, 

off memory, his poetry

is in his heart, 

and apart from my written word, 

wow, can i perforn like

the one singing bump and grind? 

Well, I most definitely have 

not the voice. 

But, 

the artist has instead

his art in his soul, 

and no pen or pad

or book in hand, man, 

this man has it. 

So does She

giving me sweet epiphany, 

alliteration and onomatopoeia, 

hyperbole, dreams of red velvet, 

a memory of perhaps

succulent treat, 

and after a beat, 

another artist approaches,

such powerful words. 

All of them, 

potential no longer blocked, 

mind unlocked,

her voice giving me thoughts. 

I am home, 

I am surrounded by poets, 

artists, lovers, dreamers, 

those who have suffered

more than I, 

hearing some of the pleas. 

It would indeed be

enriching, more imbued positivity. 

And perhaps comical

as I watch one poet

almost run over another

on trip to couch.

I grin, laughed, 

laughed more when asked

to rurn to page 24. 

Hands, the color red, 

subjects being poured about

by all these great writers. 

Such emotion, 

they read,

I listen.

Tonight isn't about me, 

this is about them, 

and I am humbled again. 

Tonight is about you,

and you, and all of you 

who pour their soul, 

so vulnerable. 

Lessons, being preached to me, 

wise words, being brushed 

across my canvas,

their paint so vibrant.

Their pain so real, 

like my own. 

What I strive to do, 

being done unto me. 

They want to write, 

they make me want to 

write, right now. 

Never stop writing, 

requesting got returned keys, 

being alive. 

Poetry has kept me alive. 

You, artists, breathe into me...

life."