A Wide-Eyed Rascal



Individual imagination
swerves across an eloquent expression,
poetic thought juggles complexity
with simplicity's creative angles,
wordy wisdom tumbling through easy ways.

A poet is: a wide-eyed street rascal
who throws stones at passing cars as laughter
gathers the night's suicide with cold nets,
and middle aged women that blow kisses
to strangers in bars while smoke rings billow.

Composition strangles black and white life
as birth wraps chords in slaps of existence,
slaughtered sonnets and visual villanelles
roam ghosts; chained to sexual desire,
the wire of compassion in each of us.

A dreamer suffocating in a world
of intensity while the dead pen spins,
where political correct winks then wanks
humanity's twelve inch ego until...
it spills personalities; messed up verse.

I'm a poet! In an age of penny
for your thoughts and inspiration's red eyes,
a character that puts two fingers up
then moves in closer to touch the tongue's curl,
a fighter in a time of cowardice.

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Submitted on August 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABCX XDXXX XXCDE XXCXX BXXXE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 956
Words 159
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

Ian Sawicki

Ian Sawicki has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is a Manchester born poet, who has dedicated his life to exploration and composition of poetry. His work reflects the many great influential experiences of his life, the pain, the pleasure combined to create new exciting poetry. If anyone is interested in my books then please visit my lulu storefront. All artwork on these books is by my own hand. http://stores.lulu.com/chasingtheday more…

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