An odyssey in improvisation
With A Song In My Heart
I Could Write A Book
of Memories
We Made
One Step Ahead
of yesterday's
Esoteric
Ode To Infinity--Tomorrow's
Destiny; so, Let The Circle
Be Unbroken
Forever.
These Are Days
of Foresight And Afterthought
that Go To Jazz
On The New Ark
To Inscribe
Heaven On Earth
in A Colloquial Dream
of Pictures shimmering
In The Reflection Of The Golden
Horn, or
a Kaleidoscope
of Glimpses
of Me, Among Others--
Crying Angels
who Refuge
in Symmetry
of Broken Shadows
Moanin'
Blues Connotation(s)
of Black Fire
in Dialogue
with The Chill of Death.
And The Drums…
For George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery
“Respect our existence or expect our resistance…we, too, are Human.”
Our origin is not arbitrary
We are no longer pawns
In the fun and games of Dick and Jane
We are the citizens who fell victim
To a dream that, after 400 years, has
Been transmogrified and magnified
Into a firestorm of indifference
And intolerance, as our system
Falls deeper into a divide
Of dissension and ignorance;
Yet, we emerge from the margins
Like a metaphorce of ancestral sighs
Speaking truth to power in the tongue
Of survival’s drums, wandering through
The wilderness in search of Zion,
Unlearning everything, pondering…
To do to you
May these words meander
But help us find our meaning
In the metaphysical metaphor called
Life. may they live for today:
Carpe Diem. & be weapons
Of faith, hope & love –-
Always taking the risk
That yields the greatest results.
May these words reveal
That by your own free will
“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
May these words spark
The arc of your imagination
With the electric music
Of the muses. …
A poem in celebration of 100 followers, a short rant and a quote
Although the maze is
Ofttimes more complicated
Than complex, I am
Always chasing rainbows through life.
Many thanks to all contributors/writers and followers of The Bazaar of the Bizarre tagged below, along with some others I’d like to openly encourage to contact me at 21stcenturygriot@gmail.com if interested in writing for the Bazaar.
Jessica Lee McMillan Somsubhra Banerjee Mimi Bordeaux Bhavyakirti Lisa Bolin Marie A Bailey Melissa Coffey Brittany Alicia Carter Roxana Ștefan Sean F Corbin Raffaella Ferretti Vixen Lea Vic Spandrio Enne Baker Marcus Julia Marsiglio Harley King Frederick Andrew Imad Dennett Christina M. Ward Samantha Lazar Andrea Juillerat-Olvera John Levin…
MDSHall
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