Standing on Poetry

Standing on Poetry

Stand on a soapbox with a heart full of poems

find words perfectly aligned

in stanzas beaten and cut to the pearl,

never pausing, fearless when spoken, Poetry

is lightning. Slam and stomp lyrics to sear metaphors

into the brain.  When Shakespeare

stands on the shoulders of sonnets, poems sing

from mouths of icons like Hamlet, just as God stood

on Mount Ararat and slammed poetry, in 3 minutes or less,

 without props, God spoke to Moses who chiseled poems

on tablets, undying poetic commandments,

if poetry is the chosen word, invigorate my poem

with the strength of David, immortalize these words

flying from my mouth to slay Goliath, here I stand in the Coliseum,

 to kill or be killed, I am a slam poet,

Poems spoken in this life echo in the next,

Your day in the sun has come if you stand

on the shoulders of poetry, follow these poets

into greatness, speak the immortal lyrics.