Afternoon’s Impossible Heat

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    Afternoon’s Impossible Heat

     

    Afternoon’s impossible heat,
    I meditate. I need something
    — boredom’s illness
    imprisons souls lost to idleness.

    In half-awake daydreams
    I see spent memories, the future’s death,
    pieces of old clouds. My feelings
    never rest.

    For a long time
    I’ve looked for existence:
    I meditate. I need something.
    My creative potency

    is writing again:
    if suffering
    is an art
    then what is happiness?

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    from my first book: In Forbidden Language, (Stillpoint Books, 2010)

    and from my eighth book:
    Full Life In The Day Of A Poet, selected poems, (Cyberwit Press, 2019)

    ©dah / dahlusion 2009 all rights reserved

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    freemansvoice commented on Afternoon’s Impossible Heat

    08-27-2019

    missed out on your earlier writings. you definitely have a way with words. I could never write without inspiration, muse or whatever it is.
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    dahlusion

    08/27/2019

    Thank you, freemansvoice, for this compliment. I spend very little time here on OP, but I do spend a bit of time at, www.writerscafe.org/Dah Hope to see you there! Cheers, DAH

    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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