Poetry 33: Poet's Duty

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           My thoughts demanded streams;
           of their earthly birth,
           a visual entailment pressed
           on the neatness of hurts;
           upon plain beige pages
           where settled 'till who knows;
           their skeleton-coated flesh
           in half-even rows,
   
           they're pleading, vicious;
           their intensity
           be quaked on the surface
           of one stolen nudity;
           but only mine I have,
           since only mine I bled
           only images I photographed
           when curiosity fled;

           in my stratosphere of visions
           'been weakened by some blankness;
           of everyday witnessing
           mediocrity--some's fondness;
           hence, gave birth did I;
           to unclarity's heaviness
           inside, beating in echoes
           of sentimental malice;

           now pleading in tears;
           their boldness,
           fiercer than my hands
           of familiar coldness;
           as I shall begin
           their engraved beauty
           on sharp thinness of the ink;
           as poet's duty.

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