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A chapter in the book To Cherish Thorns

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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