Rhyming Orange

by michaelcahill

Rhyming Orange

by michael cahill

here

this is where I truly            - am-

no one
        INTIMIDATES me here
every snappy and witty response
                flows forth like
                        butter melting in a saucepan

my inner intuitive instinct invokes inward introspection, I
                instruct ignorance
                        to                                flee
        truth is the order of the day
                                on these pages

my truth as seen by me

poetry in my motion
my own notion of an ocean's dreams
                carried to shore by the waves
                my mind wills- travel!


You, await the crash of angered-water on the beach,
        tense and trembling, terribly taut;
                I, holding your breath in the palm of my hand.


Open your eyes!


The wave rushes skyward
                (gravity holds no quarter in my world)
        through the clouds that break into song
                        in celebratory coloratura arias,
washing over every planet
leaving
worlds
of
new
life
     in its wake
        I put each unique world in my pocket
                for safe keeping

The universe shrinks
as my imagination consumes it

I roam over the range
clover's color I change
Still you implore, "range-rover,
in a field of orange-clover,
who are you?"

I am a poet.
as a poet-
I am

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