beat poetry for the masses .. .

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.. . streams of thought running through
  a mountain of kinetic energy
I look for bravery in the writers I read
  bravery that unties bonds of slavery
slavery to form, prejudice or naivety
  but all I saw or see
  was ; is – confusion
  depression
  deconstructed disillusion
you have to fight for what is right
  even when your enemy
  appears to be in front
  even while running on a cliché
your enemy never totally human
  stands in the mist of tomorrow
  and of time
it is the thought
  you are of little consequence
  that attacks personal resolve;
  your constructive mind;
  impossible to define
write what is alive and living
  at the centre of your being
  with clarity and precision
  to be prepared to make
  the necessary incision
squander yourselves bravely
  not pander to yourself
  with choco-inventory
I have seen brilliant minds
  flounder and fester
  with unwholesome disease
  lethargy and boredom
I do not scar integrity’s face
  with rhetoric and poetic incest
  nor sully the writer’s dream
  his gift of imagination
  always a-sexual
we speak in the first person
  digest the themes of Hemmingway
  Descartes, the irony
  of Marianne Moore
we speak back to our
  bourgeois history and culture
  surface like Melville’s whale
full of paradox and uncertainty
  charged with the insolence
  of dynamic purpose
  write poet write
  and never stop

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©edenbraytoday29.11.2024

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‘beat’ by edenbray the publication is available to purchase from the author as either an A5 printed chapbook or an email download.

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