Wizardry, succumb
to the sound of the drum
to the voodoo that's in your
left handed hitchhiking thumb
miserable heat of the morning sun
turns the fire hotter
you must drink the water
you must teach your daughters
you must learn your sons
concentric circles around your head
do not make halos
you're not yet dead
they mark the point
of thought's origin
where nostalgia and memory
dance with the future
behind closed eyes
Mystery, succumb
to the land of the lungs
to the forest of limbs
to the heaving of tongues
to the fury
and despair
and the peace.
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I long for peace.
And Macri, there is no thing as peace.
Everything is always in tension, that is life, that is being.
i disagree 100% with that.
so who's right?
p.s. nice poem. i really like the first stanza.
Even momentary peace would be cool, like a nap or an cold drink.
I think there IS peace, that word was made to describe something. Maybe the idea doesn't work when you get a bit philosophical but there are definitely different states in some sense, war and peace.
no ideas work when you get too philosophical.
but ideas are still nice to have, especially the ones in this poem.
Agreed
someone is not succumbing...
I won't say who
peace is relative to a situation. Of course it exists.
I received a message (I won't identify the sender unless they want to do that themselves) that my previous comment was mysterious - it was meant to be!
Humour is good; seriousness is good too! I think peace is good; uhhh, I can't say the same for war though...
I think we all have our own mysteries to succumb to, and to succumb to us, and our own peace to make or find. Different for everyone, and I think my comment probably applies to all of us, including me. I was trying to hold out and not post a comment on my own post for once, but I couldn't do it!
If I had a goal in writing this piece (and I'm not sure whether I did or not...) it was to make people look inside themselves a bit. I think it probably worked.
We are all Mysterious Wizards.
I've got more hitpoints though.
:)
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