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Poetic Thoughts - 2 more poems by the talented Neil Cain - by C.W. Pruitt II

posted: Sept. 16, 2021

Below are 2 more poems by the talented Neil Cain:

To be shapeless

and transitory

manifesting only when required

by the pressures of an expansive, elusory cultural critical mass

like the takeover of spontaneity in the streets of cities worldwide

commerce halted and communion prevailing in exaltation

every exhale carrying with it words of rejuvenation

healing simply with the prescience

of creative forces fed back

into themselves

a shrouded prism

suddenly hit

by the sun

retracting

light

endlessly

and our wavelengths are changed

On the shores of distant future

Reconstituted simultaneously

as reconstructions of past memories

mirrored in aquarium glass

distorted by water

and filtered thru a matrix

cross-referenced with an encyclopedia of dead ends,

dreams,

the words of friends,

the feeling of a street corner

lost in the foreign lands of my youth

then distilled by hard labor

and endless pursuit

and what's left is bottled

and taken to the hills

and for every foot I've walked,

a foot is drilled

straight down into the depths of the earth

and dropped into the hole

my condensed soul

to be hardened by the pressure

a gem to be washed up on the shores of distant future

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