Un-iconic Model

Would you give up your artistic integrity to become known or popular?

Sunrise, births gold light, sunset

fortunes teem, endurance bet 

call to life, unanswered yet

the poet's ink is running, wet...

Toils of mine, dreams eluding impositions

butterflys, of whimsy's graceful free ambition
epistles of creative drive

expressions ne'er to petrify

Reflections wine, fruit of wistful contemplation

creation fine, articulated derivation

imagination's hungry mine, 

deep reverie of improvise

fantasy's oblique design, 

surreality divine

Dreamscapes of Fellini visions

marvels keen artistic fission 

replete, lost Muse regained

my magic castle, deep in Spain

Bold Paladin of free expression

ardent foe of silence' lesson

obviating inhibitions

aloof to cliches suppositions

prejudicial censor free

spawns individuality

soul baring mode rely

true self-expression deify

Escape vogue's literary throttle

the tired familiar, would be novel

favor future conjugations

lam todays dull moderation

sly strangely uniconic model

selfsame message in a bottle 

cast to future generations 

time restrictions liberation

Insightful glimpse past lifetimes blur

see who we are and who we were

future missive to my self

I'll find it one day on some shelf

extend this self invented future

trove, to be discovered, nurture

drift on literature's current

if known within this life I weren't

Tarry on, await my time

burgeon hope far up the line

I will always  be alive

it's destined by primordial drive.

Anonymity sympathizer

intellectual strategizer

the fading dernier cri

til death jades popularity

Sunsets, crown their birth, sunrise

reflect like hope in children's eyes

sublime poetic light devise

word silhouette in ink, reprise 

rikkevi rue copyright 2013

Author's Note

all reviews are welcome

Reviews

[Poetic Justice]

I have been waiting for you to grace these pages with something new! You didn't disappoint, your control is magical, you have an innate understanding of language and rhythm but it has a subtly to it. Each verse gathers you in to tell a story. Haven't we all wished to be accepted and acclaimed with the integrity of our work intact. Would I give that up for fame and fortune? I would'nt know how! Perfecto

[Rikkevi Rue]

Well you would think that with such kind and encouraging words awaiting I'd have been quicker to submit! But then sometimes one climbs back into his Poet's shell and who knows when he may come out again! Nonetheless, thank you for your review and as always it is a pleasure to be counted among your friends gracious lady Perhaps I will remain more "engaged" here in the future

[Poetic Justice]

always a pleasure

[Matching Socks]

Not bad... :)
Pretty good.

I'm going stroll a bit deeper into your work.
Pretty good first impression.

[Rikkevi Rue]

you caught the "high-brow" end of the strip. mostly word-play and mind trip type things. Not everyones cup o tea! ha!

[Tate Morgan]

That is a beautiful thought I read it 4 times and listened to the inner rhyme. Oh What id give for your gift with language.

[Rikkevi Rue]

Well thank you kind friend. I was feeling like perhaps obscurity would be the likely end as a writer in this lifetime and that fostered the ridiculous (and humorous) notion of finding and reading my OWN poetry in a future lifetime! Ha. I wonder if I will recognize it?! :-)

[Tate Morgan]

lol well you are gifted with a vocabulary that is touched by the gods While I am going to have to settle for mundane

[Rikkevi Rue]

vocabulary is only a function of industrious dictionary use! Just look up all the words that you don't know the meaning of, and pick one or two you like to make your own, then add them into your own writing a word here, and a word there. Soon your vocabulary will grow.

I shouldn't even post poems like this one. It wasn't written for a usual audience and uses far too many big and uncommon words. But I am a sucker for the challenge and game of articulating my thoughts FULLY while at the same time staying within the structure of a rhyme scheme or a meter or rhythm. So I end up with these monstrosities! Lord help and forgive me the torture I must inflict on others, especially the new ones! I just post them because I haven't been writing anything else and don't want everyone to thing I died or sank into languorous indolence! HA! I just did it again!

[Tate Morgan]

lol Well It enriches our vocabulary. For me it stands me in wonder at the feat for like you I see them as mathematical problems of a sort The meter being so long the rhyme being perfect all come together to create a thought in metered rhyme that like music will be recalled on another day to the tune

[Rikkevi Rue]

Hmm. I see what you mean Tate. Thanks so much for your thoughts and interesting impressions.