the poet

seeks poetry

by Roberto Lavidez

the poet seeks poetry

in the incalculable

experience of

concealed truth

he penetrates into the

impenetrable shadow

the unexplored resources

of the unpoetical

animated by curiosity

the poet seeks poetry

in the many kinds

of truth

preoccupied in

investigating

the core of the matter

absorbed in the

circularizing

influence

of the vortex

the poet seeks poetry

and sees not with

the eye of logic

but  through

the mystic’s eye

wading through

muddy rivers

under muddy skies

he gets kicked off

from the mountain

and into the great

pile of manure

basking in nostalgia

for the unattainable

the poet seeks poetry

in the light tearing

at the candle’s wick

consequence of

self-reflection or in

an old continent

tearing out

its own entrails

or the lion

embracing the lamb

when he eats him

the poet seeks poetry

in the process of

memorializing the

vanishing race

or the sentimental

dream of incoming

multitudes

the poet seeks poetry

in the inevitable shifts

and twists of language

in the anatomy

of thought

in emotional inhibition

or vociferously

expressed anxiety

in man’s own capacity

for inhumanity

in making his belief

an open question

the poet

seeks poetry

in constant change

in being alive

in himself being

repressed

being excluded

being annihilated

the poet seeks

©robertolavidez2013