Urgent Creativity
Just because we are human, we are prisoners of the years. Yet that very prison is the room of discipline in which we, driven by the urgency of time, create.
— from Jewish liturgy
Today
the hungover man
awoke, still broke,
to see that poetry
read in a brewery
was not a recipe
for prosperity.
So the hungover man
took a stand,
writing out of love
for writing in his land.
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Packed and profound. I really like the epigraph and the way it works with the poem. Well-done
This poem has a very international and universal ring to it. It needs to be widely published. The best poem ever!
Another fan. What Linda says!
ah yes to this truth…
awoke, still broke,
to see that poetry
read in a brewery
was not a recipe
for prosperity.
and yes to this courage:
took a stand,
writing out of love
for writing in his land.
Another great one! Love this.
Wonderful! I laughed out loud at “was not a recipe / for prosperity,” then felt a warm wave of empathy at the end.