bottom

bottom

man-kind
has
stuck
a needle
it’s arm
too many
times
and
has
become
the worst
addict-
slave -
tortured
soul……

and like
the
smack-
crack-
crank-
blow-
booze-
anger-
pills -
gorging-
vanity-
greed-
and love
of ever-loving-
stinking –sinking-
rocks of things
it must hit
bottom
before it
can…

….recover.

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Just lovely...vivid, vicious, real...and hopeful at the end! You thoughts are well expressed.

bottom

thank you

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The Patchwork Poem/Lines taken from other poet's works

To The Bottom Of The Night //—W. H. Auden

The sky is everlasting //—Lao Tzu
Laid beside us like a knife //—Rainer Maria Rilke
The listless beauty of the hour //—D. H. Lawrence
Unable to gauge this wanderer’s sorrow //—Li Po

The gale, it plies the saplings double // —A. E. Housman
Mystery, like sap through all its conduit-streams //—Baudelaire
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil // —Gerard Manley Hopkins
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black //—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As still as a brooding dove //—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Visiting monuments no one visits //—Alfred Corn
It beat the shapes of harps into the air //—Oscar Williams
Dread opener of the mysterious doors //—John Keats

At the full tide, at the flood //—Elinor Wylie
In paths untrodden //—Walt Whitman
The sun will stoop and take it up //—Richard Crashaw
Clean in the eye of one who stands transfixed //—Karl Shapiro


© R. H. Peat 6/97

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