from Birth of a Notion
by T. Paul

INVOCATION
I need
PASSION
to fit words in context
to formulate a pretext worthy
of my cut-and -paste verbal
aching to be heard
thunderclap blurred
quake shake the thundering word herd
to
play those changes
that rearrange us
rain down rhythmic rhyme-time
jazz-jazz-jazzy clime
axe teases
in the licks chaotic
brrrrap-bap-bap-0-matic
PASSION
bring on the axiomatic
round sound midnight drumroll fury-
ocity
velocity
squeeze beat angel wings
'til they sing sweet
drink the bebop sax
the wing drip wax
of them that flew too close to the sun
fillin' holy souls and tongues
with the ever changin'
always in the now
manic minds eye milkmaid
leading the tongue tied
to the teat that paid the fare
with jailtime press
their pain not in vain
paving the wagon train ruts with gluts
of tarry thick ideas
fresh with bloodsweat extract
literal literary lowstick limbo
into the next generation
of word play sensation-
alists
like me
thinkin' 'bout
what to say
and how to say it
that beat in rhyme
and time to play it

I need PASSION
bask in extremes
set my wet absurdist dreams
in flight
through tarpaper night satellite kite crowded skies
where my white noise pen toys
spin spiderweb thin
sinewy monkey limbs
limberly groping new poetic chins
my finger licks spittle
thick with ripe hype glory
pricks the juice-blown words
tasting flying syllables
invisible chords tying them
to howling celestial forms
storm voices that are
politic / lunatic / heretic
kinetic kites collide
in starry night skies
with leaky loud electric pens
ecclectic process begins
where it never left off
sound richness
rhythmic hitches
content stitches
together
pop-pop-poppinn' a hole
in the whole of time
art serving purpose
continues expansion
in the Universe of Rhyme
I need PASSION
to invoke the everyday
everyman
tin pan alley trashcan huckster scam
slam sing-song banter
that is simple
sinful
with those blam blam blam gunshot phrases
glazed ham delivery
canned heat
edge of your seat
repartee
because I learn from those who told it
who origami folded visions
in deserts dry
selling passers by
wordy purple fishes
from their oceans of sand

Got to
EXPAND
on this vocabulary
form a mental constabulary
arresting ignorance at hand
because knowledge
IS
power
the sting bee in the flower
that pollinates and seeds
with concepts overgrowing
the weeds of conformity
building bridges of wisdom
over the dull beige schism
torn by sitcom mentally
wisdom culminates awaiting cultivation
by visual cortex
spiritual vortex whirling
helix twirling out
the answers to my prayers
and the spoken word blares
from invocation
to creation
occurring within
the process
of lookin' for words to say.

AND SOME DAYS THEY SPLIT ATOMS
AND SOME DAYS THEY KICK STONES

today, they find my voice.

poem copyright t.paul 2000

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