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Poem: Waiting for an Epiphany
WAITING FOR AN EPIPHANY
I am waiting for sunlight to stream through the clouds of political discord so I can speak to my friends again and I am waiting for them to remember we were once inquisitive children undefined by colors or directions or the evening news.
I am waiting for the resilience that must rest in genetic memory to shake this perpetual inertia and I am waiting for the world to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the MeKong Delta.
I am waiting for a cup of black coffee to appear at my bedside on Sunday morning along with a quarter folded section of a real newspaper without coupons and I am waiting for that road trip to some terrain un-greened, full of hard dirt and bitter weed.
I am waiting for the white noise of open windows and the sound of absolute nothing and I am waiting for the lover from every best novel I’ve read to remind me of what I used to be and what I may never be again.
I am waiting for that guy from The Walking Dead to vanquish all the walkers and hopefully inspire Daryl to wash his hair and I am waiting for the earth to split open and spit out the mother of all epiphanies, the one that will remind us we are all still human.
Carly Bryson
This poem was selected for a poetry series in Silverbirch Press to honor Lawrence Ferlinghetti on his birthday.
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Ignore the guy that down voted (flagged) this post. That is @r4fken and they are flagging everyone. That's the equivalent of a troll here. You likely did not even notice it. His reputation is so low that it had zero impact on you.
I loved the poem by the way. If I keep reading this I may actually begin to understand poetry beyond my limited knowledge. I believe I may have been writing poetry a number of times without realizing it. :)
Thanks for this. I see you are picking up some followers. I know it is slow going, but if you keep at it I have no doubt it will pick up speed.
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Ha..I didn't notice. Having a few issues with trying to post from my ipad mini and for some reason if I don't post a pic at the start of the post it won't let me later. Glad you liked the poem. Free verse seems like it.'s just prose but really it should contain a rythm, even if not obvious. This is usually discerned when read aloud.
I will say that I had the WYSIWIG editor blow up on me a lot of times. I don't use it anymore I simply type the HTML in for the images, as per the screen examples in the guides I made. Second guide actually has a lot of HTML examples instead of markdown. I use HTML mostly. Since I started doing that I had very little issues with images.
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