I READ A POEM

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. Tillie Ollsen (1912-2007), American writer and feminist

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I READ A POEM

by

Jamie Dedes

I read a poem today and decided

I must deed it to some lost, lonely

fatherless child to embrace her

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along her stone path, invoke sanity

I want to tell her: don’t sell your

dreams for cash or buy the social OS

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Instead, let the poem play you like a

musician her viola, rewriting lonely

into sapphire solitude, silken sanctity

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Let it wash you like the spray of whales

Let it drench your body in the music

of your soul, singing pure prana into

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the marrow and margins of your life

Let the poet-shaman name your muse

and find you posing poetry as art and

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discover the amethyst bliss of words

woven from strands of your own DNA.

Yes. I read a poem today and decided

I must deed it to a lost fatherless child

Photo credit – Jaime Junior, Public Domain Photographs.net