I
A collection of words
Representing
Ideas and Images
Sometimes reflecting me
More often not
Inspired by others
Misinterpretation
Adding meanings
That are not really there
Placing expectations
That a poem
Reflects the poet’s life
II
Fragments
coming from
who knows where
going into
my mind and then
off again
to someplace else
Fragments
of a conversation
skipping around
in my mind
an unfinished dance
ballet of words
meaning what
Fragments
of music
too scattered
broken up
to recognise
as a coherent
complete entity
Fragments
thoughts
of love, hate
whirlpool
of images
faces
I don’t know
III
distorted picture
seeming two-dimensional
a cardboard cut-out
the perfection of the day
making an unreal image
IV
My
Poems
Reflecting
Influences
From what impinges
Upon all my senses
What I hear taste touch see smell
Not always from experience
Or reflecting my beliefs
My opinions my life
Dispassionately
Objectively
Portraying
Unknown
Lives
V
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ted tions plete ry of re tion of tion ing of tum tu ty
Perverted inventions
Incomplete imagery
Icons of misrepresentation
Pictures of distortion
Portraying slivers of
The stratum of actuality
VI
falling
like snowflakes
unable to
catch them
without
destroying the
form the exquisiteness
of them
leaving
untouched
distances me
makes them
unattainable
hard to appreciate
too far away to perceive
with accuracy
striving
constantly
to get close
enough to
study
their perfection
without harm
reproduce
them in a less
fragile form
while maintaining
the essence
of their charm
their appeal
my attempts
only producing
very crude
imitations
of original’s
delicateness
unable
to make the
breakthrough to form
them into a
precise and
self-sufficient
representation
of the image
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VII
lights
flickering
in the darkness
my mind
from
thought
to thought altering
constantly
images
flash
through and are gone
vanished
lost
somewhere
for ever
unless my mind
can retrieve them
call them back
my fears
hopes
reality
all
occur
within the
flickering thoughts
then one by
one the
lights
go out