I know I have not posted much in the past year. My mind is still out in never never land. However in Feb. I wrote a poem and submitted it to http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ for possible publishing in their magazine.

I just received my first rejection email. (It take 6 months to process). Is ok I found some mistakes I missed and then reworded it. Their rules state it has to be an unpublished poem. Every thing else I have written is published here so they are unacceptable. Today I am posting the submitted poem.

My eye is distracting but I can still read. The little floaters and cloudiness just break up the flow of the story...sigh... Enjoy the poem.

 

 

Power of the Story…Lost

 

Through the years by way of written

word…

Truth of history, fiction of science,

and mystery,

all have cast their images of

wisdom and beauty

upon my mind

 

Sadly….

The years of toil lays its

burden upon my body…

Eyes fail even the clarity of glass

and screen used upon the written page

 

Gone is the beauty in the

currents flowing from images

soaring to the heights of eagles, or

falling drenched in the roar of a

maelstrom careening through

canyon walls, of my mind’s

eye

 

I find no beauty in the

narration of prose that drones upon

the ears with the incessant hiss

of a whisk upon a drum

that lulls me to the

drowsiness of inattention.

 

The power of the story is

lost when, through these

 fog shrouded eyes,

 I can no longer

read the images into my mind

ccd

Feb 2015