Poetry of Lonnie Hicks-New Manuscript-A Far View
Creativity
Experience
contains all my physical senses
but what of mind
which can be gone
while body is always present?
Which of the two
is knowledge base--
idea or past experience?
Which:
Dream or the Concrete?
But note
my idea of you this day
may be different on tomorrow
but you will not have changed--
only my thought of you made
in my mental mode
shifted.
Some answer both coincide;
that it is possible--
both cover
our experiential ground.
We are
who we dream ourselves to be
and we are also
who we seem to be--
interesting
to note
we're all our past
present and future
simultaneously
by this test;
we exist inside this contradiction
which states:
I can see myself
as I am not yet
for this is
what it means to dream;
but I alas
am now
only my experiences
now and past.
Surely this cannot be unless
in dreaming my future me
I am thereby changed...
A conclusion here
truly revolutionary.
Can the dream of the poet
for that which does not exist
by dreaming thus
change the poet's dream
now to realty?
Fire us the engine then
we call this progress coming;
Fire now the proclamation
of universal genius--
because we all dream.
Hoist us now
dreamers's dream--
alchemy
from which
all creation comes;
dreamers dream
into the void
and by doing so
remake self and world
a miracle is thus drawn
from nothingness
entering then reality,
by another name
we call
creativity
and too
dreamer's changed
by the dream
tumbling out
from all of this
another thing
we sometimes call
Poetry.
contains all my physical senses
but what of mind
which can be gone
while body is always present?
Which of the two
is knowledge base--
idea or past experience?
Which:
Dream or the Concrete?
But note
my idea of you this day
may be different on tomorrow
but you will not have changed--
only my thought of you made
in my mental mode
shifted.
Some answer both coincide;
that it is possible--
both cover
our experiential ground.
We are
who we dream ourselves to be
and we are also
who we seem to be--
interesting
to note
we're all our past
present and future
simultaneously
by this test;
we exist inside this contradiction
which states:
I can see myself
as I am not yet
for this is
what it means to dream;
but I alas
am now
only my experiences
now and past.
Surely this cannot be unless
in dreaming my future me
I am thereby changed...
A conclusion here
truly revolutionary.
Can the dream of the poet
for that which does not exist
by dreaming thus
change the poet's dream
now to realty?
Fire us the engine then
we call this progress coming;
Fire now the proclamation
of universal genius--
because we all dream.
Hoist us now
dreamers's dream--
alchemy
from which
all creation comes;
dreamers dream
into the void
and by doing so
remake self and world
a miracle is thus drawn
from nothingness
entering then reality,
by another name
we call
creativity
and too
dreamer's changed
by the dream
tumbling out
from all of this
another thing
we sometimes call
Poetry.
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