. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Oracle in the Mists

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The Oracle in the Mists


 The Oracle in The Mists 


(A lone voice whispers)


Oh, poets who write by pen or quill 


Young or old

Hear me


Does the long night bring stories of the new 

Or memories of the old


Creeping in


Calling to be written by you 

By the Eternal Temptress


Hiding somewhere 

Supernatural in the cold 


On some unseen Capital Hill 


Do you bind them up by your will 


Like a chained up Prometheus


To your wild green 

Hills of Creativity 


Hold them to account like a reborn form of Socrates


Before releasing them through your choice of quill


Until they can whisper no more when they are spilled

To be still


And lay satisfied and sated

Asleep for ages


Like an insomniac after taking a strong sleeping pill

On some pages


Until those  

New or old voices


Waiting and whispering 

Out in the cold

Call no more


But watch like sirens 

Watching Ulysses 


Standing on your luscious green hills of creativity 

Bound by your will


Waiting for your sympathetic ear


Day and night

All year round 


On the wet slippery shores

Of your minds


Right Hemisphere 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


The right hemisphere controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skill.


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The Oracle in the Mists