Hide & Speak (103 recycled words)

I'm not enlightened. I'm not impressed by those who believe that they are.

 

Grabbing at images of windblown trees

With tearstained teeth and calloused knees,

Stabbing at formulas of dead men’s thoughts

With yak horn fans and cold stars distraught.

 

Sunshine winters get my Zen bomb centered.

Enlightenment escapes me,

B*****d heroes set my pride at zero,

I escape enlightenment.

 

I whisper fear in the spooky sound’s ear

With death’s frozen phrase killing cheer,

Chewing on razors with my Buddha face,

Squandering charm and out of disgrace.

 

Rot-gut laughter hanging drunk from rafters ,

pretension hides from my truth,

Plastic smiles shine like new ceramic tiles,

My truth hides from pretension.

 

Sobriety and clarity,

Poetry and symmetry,

I lack, I lie, I live and die,

Never touching true prosperity.

 

I’m average.

Author's Note

Gobble it up.

Reviews

[Gandré]

This was interesting for me. It is good when someone is considering himself average. Why to want to be special. Then this says to me that you don't live my linear time. Exactly that. When you live by oneness with your universe there is no such a thing this or that. Then we are able to understand others by jumping into their skin trying to get a glimp of their consciousness and we can't dislike or judge or destroy what is a part of us.
You have many great lines here. Plastic smiles i liked and to live to die. I m communicating with BB and it doesn't let me rate. I would give u 100 %. I also am not able to read the reviews. But I read the first line and see you reviewed few poems. Thank you very much. Be well.

[The Reticent Receptioni..]

Love this. Enlightened is often just a nice word for arrogant, pompous, and inconsiderate. :)

[Mason Vail]

Yummy.

Isn't it curious that the most truly "enlightened" people you meet are those who aren't trying to be enlightened and would not claim to be?

Oh, and a big ol' *SNORT* at the conclusion. ;)

[Viper9]

Average?

We should all aspire to such mediocrity. ;)

Fun poem. Those who claim to be enlightened tend to be the most unenlightened people I've known.

[Nish Nish the Fish]

this is probably the best and most inspiring poem ive ever read!

[StrawberryDream]

Obsessed with this to the core... Can't resist adding it to favorites....
Beautiful everything..
Insightful, honest, artistic all at once. Love! :)