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2000 Reynolds Award Winner Poetic Tendencies |
A chance to speak
when words elude, to hunt them,
work them as a smith;
to blow life into them as glass
with insatiable possibilities
To leave a legacy
of treasured time, sculpted and chiseled;
of moments marred, their scars just as cherished
To discover
words entombed and stale,
disentangle them and conceive anew;
the wrath of the wicked, the quest of the swain,
visiting the sound of their souls
To share
secrets exhumed and eclipsed,
pawned for one another and ourselves
To reach out
To reach in--
face the zenith and bane of our souls;
seek the mystery
and embrace it
To find bliss
To find fear
in the beauty and horror
of our collective madness and miracles
and rejoice in it.
To stay sane
fighting the spirits and welcoming them
just the same
A chance to be quiet
and listen within, perchance to understand,
or be again beguiled.
[Return to the Select Entries from Nota Bene 2000.]