My Necklace
Look outside your lovely white laced window pane
Hike up that towering mountain in your world’s brightest sunrise
Let the morning air lift your saddening night’s lost war
But all nonsense bliss shall be structured, ordered,
Rearranged
For the bane of grade school...
Though we began to sing anthems addressed to flags
ABC’s to one another
And musical rhythms, possible mnemonics,
These useless utensils were soon replaced with logistical routines.
Calculators tucked away and pencils spread out
5 paragraphs, hook, topic, thesis, and a conclusion
Don’t forget punctuation!
I swerved, I crashed, I forgot the .
For these concrete systems wrecked the genuine ideas:
A silent walk through tallest greens of spring’s wettest kiss
A rusty photograph from past irretrievable moments
A longing for fresh warm snow in a summer’s breeze
There were no absolute labels for indescribable elements
For thus, my wordings grew short
My saying were less of saying
but catalysts
for conveying.
Eclectic entangled contemplations
Became roots for foots
And those interspersed, to verse
This became my new way of expression,
An outlet for my wit.
Creative and Imaginative, I am
A chemist of the bottled feelings
A mathematician of equilibrium
An architect of the mind
Fragmented thoughts
as beads along
a string of discourse
In and out
Over and Under
Through the colossal of letters,
I weave jewelry,
Poetry.
Around my neck lays embellished
String of thoughts