Something Visual Poem by RIC BASTASA

Something visual and so vivid
Are still hard to write

One shot in film
Would have been easy

To picture curves
And tangential lines
That even criss-cross
Using words
Is a big challenge,

Like
Capturing a crocodile
On a fish net, it would even
Be harder using words
To capture illusive motions
Of white milk spilt on
Monochromatic tiles,
Or
The leaping of a fish
On the pond trying to
Eat a moth or a dragonfly
Hovering on a blade of
Grass and what about
Air,
Invisible getting
Inside my lungs, that
Feeling of life moving
Inside me,
And
What about
Blood running in the veins
To remove numbness of
My fingers,
All
These
Are challenges in words
In what to write,

To a jumping fish
Capturing, swallowing
A blue dragonfly,
Or
The air rushing
To my lungs,
Or
To the
Blood rushing to my numb
Fingers,
All these give a feeling
Of relief,
All
These somehow
Return life, and it makes
Us all feel good…

Something visual in words
Motions captured and colors
Brushed in word, in words
Something visual
And life-giving
To be caged in words,

Such will be your big challenge.