Spend money just to get your google search

It’s why millions are rioting in the street.

You cannot make money,

Without having money already to spend.

And with that, it’s no wonder the whole house of cards would fall.

All night one thinks

How he spoke Word;—

To chew until the mind fell asleep.

To inspire the same in others

It would be too much the dream come true.

 

To write a word, in strong verse

That one man, or woman, or child

Drank deep.

 

How I wish I could be the Doctor of Listening.

The grief that much wisdom was spoken

But I could not find it all in this short life of mine.

Grief, subtle sadness, that it exists…

Awesome is the impasse of our fellowminds.

 

To speak into the ether

Where none were listening;—

I realize the Earth didn’t need a great poet.

It needed a hearkener.

Oh blank page

Before my eyes

You stand a canvas ready.

What shall I place upon you?

What color?

Golden Rod, Peridot,

Mauve or Eggshell Blue?

Shall I take the Goldenrod and make a sun?

Shall I take the Peridot and make some grass?

Shall I take the Mauve and make dusk’s hue

Upon the Eggshell sky waning

Behind?

Shall I take my brush and mix the colors

To make subtle shades of shadows with the mauve

To make blue with goldenrod shadows

Upon the mauven cloud,

Dark at dusk’s meet.

 

Shall I then tuck the sun beneath the horizon

Shaded in the Mauven sky, the golden rod touching the clouds

The grass fiery with the jewelry-rain?

 

Writing is my canvas.

For I can make the scene far more beautiful

With my words than with a brush.

Lay open vestibule of our greatest minds,

Upon the lap of the only man in a quarter century

To open thy door, and see thy cataract.

The strophe and antistrophe

Which haven’t a soul

To espouse Grecian category’s empty words;

No, but to me you mean the top and bottom

Of those flawless chemicals of geometry;

A cataract, just like the Great Falls of Buffalo.

Am I the only man to see it for a quarter century?—

How so austere at first

It dances around my eyes,

The ugly ink and plain words.

Yet, it is perfect in meaning.

 

How does a man explain poetry

To those who never drink from its mousse?

It merely tells us what rests beyond all artifice

Into the meaning of these things

We might never take a passing glance.

Waterfalls might have a certain chemical,

Something between Geometry and Stars,

But do those chemicals have meaning?

Or, does the meaning create the chemicals?

 

A man who feels truth is very deceived,

Yet, if one could see the pure feeling of Niagara Falls

That my sinful self could not appreciate…

I will remember the feeling later, at a second glance

In a poem nobody has read for over twenty years.

And that is why I know there is sin.

That is why I know there is such foulness.

I can know the feeling then and now

Both the same, but then I would not chew upon it.

Today, without beholding what my eyes had once seen,

I can see it once again, and in that sight,

Understand what sin truly was.

A lie we tell ourselves to spoil what is good and right before our eyes.

Then, later, one meditates on it from afar,

Without the beauty before flesh’s eyes.

O Masons lay thy bricks of stone

To build your archways and causeways

To build your temperate domes.

The structure was grand.

However, among the stones

There lay a stone oddly shaped,

Which had a strange appearance

And no goodly form.

The masons laid their brick

Casting the oddly shaped stone

Over their shoulders.

 

Soon, the architecture was perfect,

The building’s scaffolding tall,

But it had one structural weakness.

The builders looked over the gap

Where the corner stone needed laid.

No stone fit.

Yet, lying on the marble tiles

Was the stone the builders rejected.

They took it, gazed upon it,

And saw it perfectly fit in the gap.

A strong stone,

A tried stone, and a true stone.

It bore all the weight of the dome and the arches.

 

It soon came that renovators needed to rebuild the structure.

They poked and prodded,

Wishing to do their renovations just.

They examined all of the foundations,

All of the scaffolding.

It all only needed minor renovations.

Nothing so grand or more than plastering and some buttressing.

Yet, they came to the corner stone

Which held the dome and arches.

It was a homely little stone

So the builders wished to replace it

With a gem.

 

They removed the stone

And placed their own, fresh cut stone of ruby into the gap.

However, the ruby did not quite fit.

Nor was it the perfect shape like the other stone was.

No matter how well did the masons cut their stone

The piece could not fit.

 

Soon the arches began to sag

The dome began to buckle

The foundation began to shift from the heavy burden of the dome and archways.

The ruby stone could not hold the weight of the structure.

So, the masons looked once again on the stone they had rejected,

Seeing it could still yet fit into the gap.

They did so, and it stopped the damage from altogether getting worse.

We sometimes like to think

That our arguments are new.

We like to think that our era is perfect

And that our arguments and ideas have not

Lived on since the beginning of man.

 

When you read old works—

If you can understand them—

You start to notice that astrophysics was known in the 16th century.

You begin to understand

That men understood all that we can understand today.

 

The difference between then and now

Is that today we cannot know Word.

We had all of our knowledge then,

But then we had the conscience of Word.

Today we cannot perceive it

And so make Milton’s villain the hero.

Though, in the sixth Chapter he explicitly forbade that reading.

 

It makes me think nobody reads the books

And yet still their scholarship is published.

 

Satan used reason to murder and commit theft.

Philosophy, as Milton understood it,

Was Satan’s justification for making war with God.

Yet, Raphael dismissed man’s faulty reason

Their pitiful explanations of the cosmos,

And told man what Voltaire told us.

 

“Till thy garden.”

There’s nothing more to write.

There’s nothing more to say.

Sailing off to the other-world

At the end of life

Is the only sweetness I can lend.

 

How reason has proven false

All that I loved.

And with that, blood flows through the valleys

Of the wine press.

Lay burden to bear

There were two things I desired.

I will find them when the ship sets sail.

For— You might call it pretentious

But I like writing complex poems.

It speaks what this mind conjures

In full breadth of its image.

 

Perhaps like music

It is loved for the repetitions.

That we can predict the next sequence of notes.

 

In my eye, I see great things

Landscapes and valleys.

I wish to choose language that speaks what is in me.

But, whatever I love, it is insufficient.

What I hate, it is regarded as priceless.

So, blood spills down the valleys

Because we mistake what is stone

With what is flesh.

 

I would love to fly away like a bird

Or hide away in the forests I love.

But, rather, I see the whole world wishes itself to change.

And if change it must,

Then men are the artifacts they worship.

For no knowledge can prove the foundations of love.

Yet, there it is for me to see and touch.

Rather, it takes much imagination to reason it away.

When I set sail, I would have already known.