. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Happy New Year

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Happy New Year

 Do you too like reading to escape for a few minutes or for the true diehards 



Free from the modern curse of Hypoprosexia


A few hours


Through poetry's heavily laden chest of mysterious things


Containing shiny jewels of such priceless wonders and visual experiences

 

Waiting for eager minds to race through like the Greek goddess of running


Atalanta

With such raw heavenly power 


Tempting inquisitive eyes to wait in line with a great thirst like polydipsia


For seconds

Minutes or even hours


To be maybe hypnotised forever by enchanted words

As they appear


Cast like fishing lines with bolts of Zeus thunder


To then hold minds

 

Caught and captured in gilded written cages in pages


Captivated for a few seconds


Minutes or hours 

By written spells to beguile 


Through ethereal carefully crafted and erected citadels 


Surrounded with such hypnotic wonders and smiles


From the hostile 

Versatile and others flickering with such style 


Is that why some still love poetry


And books like heavily laden chests


Filled with mesmerising dreamscapes to within wonder 


For readers of old and readers of new


There will always be one favourite author

To take you under


Who's yours?


(C) Copyright John Duffy 


Hypoprosexia: A decrease in attention ability


Polydipsia is the medical definition of excessive thirst

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