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“The Object Is…” : Original poetry, linked in response to dVersepoets.com site’s prompt post, “The Object is Poetics.”
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the object is… : original poetry
if the words endure, they do so because they link the links -
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The Prompt, “The Object is Poetics,” from dVersepoets
prompt introduced by mark kerstetter
“This week’s task is to focus on an object in your environment, preferably an object from the natural world, to really examine it, to try and see it with utmost clarity, and to wait for the word, that first word or phrase that seems to capture, for you, the essence, in language, of that object. Then use that word or phrase to construct a poem that gives a voice to that thing.”
the article has several pen and ink like illustrations visualizing the idea
plus prose poetry examples are nicely provided, including excerpts and links for more by the french writer francis ponce
it’s very much like what i try to do in “parts” of my little series writings on waking and my daily gratitude musings
my own slant, thinking about this because of the prompt, is i see that idea, yes, i really like doing this sort of thing, finding the words to “voice” an object, but i also wish to then float that voice and see what else it calls from me, what connections of any kind, feelings, thoughts, memories -
sometimes there’s much, sometimes just a tidbit…
but that’s how everyday life is anyways 
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The Object Is…
not shaving for a day or two too
long
isn’t in my best interests,
when i’m interested -
thick white hairs are rapidly
crowding their younger darker heirs
at times one thick bright stump out alone
along the olive skin waiting like crop rotation
nearby three thin wires each a differing shade of
unshaven, cluster inside a pore patiently paring bets
to see
who will survive -
tilling the hairs with thin steel blades
in the direction they tend to grow
means more hairs escape
the cut
but so does a skin beginning to burn
less pimpled now at sixty
more skimpy in
willingness
to heal
i’d think the bristly beard hairs
and
my prissy aging ancient skin
would compromise
they don’t, so
i do it for them
shave only when i have to, once
every few days, morphing me
from satin saint to prickly
pear bear man every
few days -
my man’s face is a seasons of its own
it seems
in just the time it takes to view a few looks
in the morning mirror
© 2012 adam light creations / adan lerma
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Yoga
so much is said in yoga of the objects in our lives, including our thoughts and emotions, as being something to just let slide by, unvalued as “lasting” -
though it certainly wouldn’t be prudent to remain obsessed with a thought or feeling to the point of incapacity, i’ve never thought it was possible we would only be on this earth to simply endure being here…
it makes more sense to me that, whatever we can infuse with consciousness, much like the poetry prompt exercise from dversepoets, gains from our existence -
and we in turn, absorbing an objects own inherent essence, allows us to likewise be infused…
my guess is :
our connectedness is, and our awareness is becoming
namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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