Poetry

Improvised, 'from mind to monitor', write for a contest 'The Image of Poetry', (or something close to that)

It is a wave of emotion

Tsunami sized

It is pure devotion

It is larger than life

Painting living portraits

It dances and plays

Reason's and rhyme's 

It is

Dreams and imaginings

Scribed

On endless sands

Washed out with the tide

To omniscient oceans

That order can't abide

It resides inside

Hearts and minds

Free's laughter

Longing

Liberty

Love

Life

For souls

That no longer need to hide

It paves the way

From Plato's cave

So all can reach to heavenly skies

Sowing seeds in sunny shine

Feeding fertile need

It is feast, famine

Occasional fame

Wilde at heart

As art decree's

It is ageless, nameless,

Yet futile office fumbles for meaning

It is omnipresent

Omnipotent

Prophetic

Reflective

Introspective

Didactic

Dynamic

Electric

Dour

Sour

Charismatic

Fantastic

It yields equally in peasant plains

And ivory towers

It does not discriminate

it is war, peace,

Glory and loss

Soldier

Civilian

Labourer

Boss

Yet formless, faceless

It flatters and flutters

To and fro it flows

To parchment stains

And nervous utterance

It knows no bounds

Breaks barriers

Unseen

By censoring forces

Extolling controlling enforcement

It cannot be culled, killed, coerced.

Camouflaged

It cannot be perceived

By it's enemies

But should anyone wish to see

The image of poetry

Simply open your mind

And let it be

What it will be.

Author's Note

Metaphor, analogy, simile...it's all Greek to me!

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Wonderful! If only that could be said in a word .. but you've shown that it just can't be ..

The flow is extraordinarily smooth, bends and curves to your meanings, to the content :

'It yields equally in peasant plains
And ivory towers
It does not discriminate
it is war, peace,
Glory and loss
Soldier
Civilian
Labourer
Boss'

[Sunflower/Sara Kendrick]

Interesting thoughts that you have penned in this one. Sunflower

[Harley Ann]

Hmm...Spence...short for Spencer, I presume.

If only the Spencer I knew here was as heartfelt and poetic as this.
It's deep, yet not so deep that it dampens the spirit. :)

[Narnie]

I love this and the sounds, rhythm it builds before tapering. One suggestion I would have to aid that though would be to take out all the 'It is' s in the beginning and let it flow in to the poem rather than directing too much?

[Nautili]

You are a true poet in heart. your love for the art shines through.