Becoming a Poem
As an artist I will admit there were unfortunate moments in my intensity, when
crippling insecurities left me limp and passion-free. When I’m busy doing
something I love, there was progress to my spirit. Keeping busy always
put me in a better mood. I am many, but not always the fairest to gaze upon,
my smoldering aura embodied the holy, unholy and the human form;
I confess I’ve opened my exalted head and body to Pablo Picasso who
perceived me in strange and abstract ways; and there were times when
I’ve summoned the most evil, known as Satan for a few hot unholy days,
then joined Moses and the Greatest Mother of them all, until I tired of
their perpetual sermons, on the hills, if I recall;
three watery graves once called out to me, I offered John, Jr. a Water Lillie,
as well as his wife, Caroline and her sister, too, lastly with an urge to breed,
I began following John Travolta around; when his quivering wings
reminded me of a night spent in the arms of the angel Michael,
I offered him a Lilac Blossom plucked from my own bosom…
laughed and kissed him long and hard,
becoming this poem for you!