Mindy Schaper
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THE WRITTEN WORD

Dim marks of color, pencil or ink
Tilted and stilted, flying, they sink
Scribbles and scratches, mere space and lines
Onto a surface these scrawlings confined

Yet simple cipherings passions do hide
Narrow creations inflate a world wide
Grief and remorse, tragedy, joy
Hatred and yearning these symbols deploy

All of our wisdom, our visions, our truth
Ponderings precious in marks black or blue
Joyful achievement and painstaking finds
Reason objective and mystical minds

Words that gave freedom and words that enslaved
Lawyers and scientists long dust in graves
Abstract potential to vivid concrete
Hazy horizon and solid ground meet

Who would have guessed it, the simple man-beast?
When sitting by fire and eating his feast
That curlicues, planes wrought by stick in the dirt
They could contain the explosion of earth?


May 21st, 2017


Photo Credit:

Tiger in Houston
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  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Poetry
    • Black Cat
    • Open Hearts
    • Art
    • The Good Fight
    • Big Shot
    • Bitterness
    • Ethan
    • New Year's
    • Kindred Spirits
    • Daffodils
    • How Do You Love Me?
    • Crossing the Verrazano
    • Distant Love
    • Priorities
    • Fallen Angels
    • Somebody's Child
    • Cans and Cannots
    • Joy
    • The Written Word
    • Love On The Train
    • Stone Heart
    • Impossible Things
    • Control
    • Passion
    • Osmosis
    • Fire
    • Break My Bones
    • God Is With You
    • Imagination
    • Humanity
    • Camera
    • On The Incompatibility of Poets and Quants
    • Papers
    • You Never Promised
    • This Is My Prayer
    • Mile in Your Shoes
    • Trust
    • Better Man
    • Death
    • Time
    • Workaholic
    • Wrong Tree
    • Lying to Myself
    • Song of Ropes of Sand
    • Withered
    • Prisoner
    • Moth
    • Eichah: The Book of Lamentations
    • Kinah 8
    • Contrast
    • Knowledge
    • The Song Inside Me
    • Rocky Path
    • Venice (Travel)
  • Music
    • Dreams
    • Love Without the Drama
    • Dreams, Despacito
  • Design
  • Other Work
  • Contact
  • About