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| Salvia by Ben Kokolas |
poetry burns in my blood,
strengthening me
as I forge meaning
from words and lines,
a luscious roll
through syntax
and
connotation,
an addiction I can never
walk away from
having surrendered fully
to the insanity;
but let those words
linger unsaid in my mind
and I shake
in uncontrolled withdrawal,
a fraud revealed
for all to see,
a trespasser
into the world
of the artist,
a shell of a writer
frantically counting
syllables on my fingers
while
muttering incoherently
of iambic pentameter,
begging for
just one more verse,
one more fix.
~~~ This poem was written in response to a prompt from Poetry Jam asking us to write about a love/hate relationship.
