“Passion and pain are a poet’s portfolio. When a poet loses his words, he’s also lost his voice.”
POETRY ADDICTION
By Carolyne M. Acen, spoken word poetry blogger
I am a logophile; a poetic junkie with a
peculiar addiction.
High on poetry, slurring words like a lunatic.
Drugged by techniques, swooned into emotion
by this creative craving curse.
I bow to the will of this idolized ink, let my pen
stroke my soul into a living rage and bleed my
thoughts on paper.
My elation is the rush of creation; words roam
around freely.
Inadequate verbal emotion makes me weak
and renders me useless.
Thirsty and breathless, I lurch along canvas
dumping the shards of experience sealed in
suitcases of my vocabulary.
The creative fire in me burns.
Keeps me up all night, wakes me at first light.
I write with a frenzy — my Sentences combined
describe my written scribe.
I coax phrases to render them bold; weave
moments in line and verse, wield my whimsical
pen with a theatrical flourish.
I craft words so all may waltz; floor the stage with
my well enunciated dictionary — tap the mic, seize
the moment and hope to God that my fiery
inspiration takes hold.
I am a drunk poetess mingling in the presence of
sobriety.
(c) Carolyne M. Acen 2016
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Smiling over here! Thank you, Solveig for sharing my poem.
Bless you. 🙂
Regards,
Carolyne.
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Thank you, Carolyne, for writing this poem and allowing me to publish it. Love it. 🙂 I am over-joyed every time I stumble across a good poem about poets and writers and writing. I found you on Scriggler, where I also found Patrice Desbiens’s “Once Again,” about being lost in the poem: https://z4short.com/2016/12/09/once-again-by-patrice-desbiens/
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You’re welcome, Solveig.
It’s a pleasure and i am happy that you love my poem.
Poetry is beautiful, therapeutic, addictive, mind blowing, sensational and i just love getting lost in the essence of it. I got more poems about my love for poetry. I will send a link.
Wow…Patrice Desbien’s poem is awesome! I love it.
Descriptive, yet beautiful. It displays the beauty of poetry accurately.
Thank you for sharing.
🙂
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Here are links: https://scriggler.com/DetailPost/Poetry/28212
and, https://scriggler.com/DetailPost/Poetry/40031
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Thanks! I’m thrilled by phrases like these:
“My words fall gracefully from outer
space and wander across these pages…”
and
“I run chapters of history, pages of my
every day life across empty pages,…”
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