Ahh, stillness,
it is our soul's
natural state
but in this life
we must move
somewhere beyond
the tyranny of now.
The thought of
chasing this
endless summer
is bliss. In it we will find the
space to think and
change the arc
of our narrative.
I want to see
this world through
the eyes of a million people
and a few gurus
who unsuspectingly
drip wisdom from
their very lives, in every
cell of their being.
I dream of meandering
down little alleys
and twisted streets,
enraptured in a sort of
childish awe of people,
places, and things
in which I've never
heard the name.
These aging feet
still have some miles to travel,
these eyes, so many
sunsets to savor,
tastes of foreign flavors
to satisfy this yearning, so deep.
So let us cast a wide net,
keeping our memories
from dust and all
these ghosts
of pain and of time
and build a life, sublime,
I dream.
--
-Eric Vance Walton-
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Poetry should move us, it should change us, it should glitch our brains, shift our moods to another frequency. Poetry should evoke feelings of melancholy, whimsy, it should remind us what it feels like to be in love, or cause us to think about something in a completely different way. I view poetry, and all art really, as a temporary and fragile bridge between our world and a more pure and refined one. This is a world we could bring into creation if enough of us believed in it. This book is ephemera, destined to end up forgotten, lingering on some dusty shelf or tucked away in a dark attic. Yet the words, they will live on in memory. I hope these words become a part of you, bubble up into your memory when you least expect them to and make you feel a little more alive.
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