Be Silent Poet

Do not pass on your feelings and thoughts, you call poetry
To your fellow teachers, students,
Keep them to yourself

Suppress

Your embellished imagery, your spoken art
I have read the many replies
By respondents who say
They enjoy your verses

Curtail

The sharing of lyrical expressive gifts from the soul
That may bring a smile, a tender thought
To other free spirits among us

Refrain

From using rhythm cadences, mystical metaphors, cosmic visions
To nourish the boundless mind numbed by oppressive
Practices aimed at rendering people submissive
Stoic, mechanical, frontal lobotomy type

Cease

The use of vivid poesy to stir and arouse the pleasure senses
That yearns for the warm feeling of an amorous embrace
Savoring the unbridled sensation of a passionate kiss

Subdue

The use of romantic verse to stimulate the body being
Losing itself in the dizzied spinning of climatic ecstasy
Sensually collapsing in the loving arms of a Valentino

Hold

Sending desirable messages about spending memorable days and eves on a deserted beach
With someone you love or like or someone you desire to meet; casting yourself away
Under tall swaying fruiting coconut trees, periodically breaking from your love making
To cool off in turquoise water before returning for more……………………

Forget

About suggesting to a wife and mother to pause briefly during working hours to think
Of how she will rush home feed the children, help them with their homework,
Bath them with the thoughtful anticipation before putting them to bed
So that she may than bed her mate consummating their vows
Than reposefully sleep next to him, till the predawn morrow
Waking with a stretching smile, because of last night

Stop

Be silent poet

Rudy H. Garcia 8/13/2011