For Those Who Still Dream To Write The Best Lines Of Their Lives Poem by RIC BASTASA

For Those Who Still Dream To Write The Best Lines Of Their Lives

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you wish to write the best lines of
a poem, something that they will remember
for a lifetime, you want to put the best metaphor,
you like to be deeper than the deepest ocean
(or the bluest sky ever, or the tallest peak
of a mountain with snow caps, you want to
put the gentlest sound of the wind
on top of the Tibetan monastery, you like
to have your lines sound like a tinkering bell
of the meditating monks, you want it holier
than the saints, you want to make an impression
with the moon and the stars, before you die,
before you embrace the darkness and then
take on the glowing robe of light)
you wish to write the wisdom of the ages
in some few lines, you want to put your name
at the bottom, so they may remember you

how human could you still be!
divinity shuns this waste of words!

come to think of the paradox
the best poem is not written at all
it is not even spoken
not even the sweetest song of the bird
not even the flute or the lyre has that note

it is not here, not even in the hearts of men
or of the wise, it does not exist here,

it is not even heard yet, the metaphors still unseen
the rhyme unrevealed, the rhythm unfathomed...

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