Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Being an Eloi - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Being an Eloi is Okay,

But Make Sure the Smoke Alarms Have Fresh Batteries

 

Some poets are Eloi, deconstructing this

And disconnecting that in weak free verse

Between the reiki and the pilates

Trying to find an existential voice

 

And other poets are grim Morlocks, almost,

Through muscling chaos into meaning and light

Between the night shift and the morning cup

Trying to build a voice that speaks with strength

 

To shape lack of meaning into meaning

That is neither this nor that, but itself

No comments: