I Bear Witness

by PhauxShaux

I bear witness:
Words transformed,
Form 
Verses and blurbs
Some soothe and serve,
Striating auditory nerves.
Immense and intense,
Some writers content 
To preclude include content
Intent to incense and perturb.

I bear witness:
Words massaged and caressed
In minds, exiting in breaths
Of poets
And griots
Make haven
In skull and spirit...

I bear witness:
Words translated, elevate
Into the stratosphere of photographic
Status.

I bear witness:
Words sung and chanted
Original, individual,
Truthful, some tarry in meanings they carry
Some pieces legendary:
I once heard Whitman recanted...
So melodic,
So exotic,
So erotic:
Nature, the naked body and blackberries:
Prose arose lascivious and lush
Froze us, the audience into a hush,
Could have confound Caligula flush...
...And I bore witness.

I cannot recall how many times
I have heard rhymes
Chimed about Bush,
'Wished 
Poetry which featured the aforementioned 
Well meaning, I know...written with good intention
Had been more about the bush
I know best about,
Care about,
Its whereabouts,
Its Yearnings and burning:
My own,
Where my hedges
Are never overgrown...
Ooo the thrill...
Of Brazil...
I digress...

I bear witness:
Lessons learned
Listened and linked in lexiconic litany
Symphonic syncopated cacophony:
Lullabies of awakening.

I bear witness:
The flavor of flows
Rapid as rivers
Others delivered
Al a mode grass growing...
Seeds sown
Secrets shown:
Peek-a-Boo,
Hide and Seek 
Pan and Pandora
Teasing me
Feeding me more of
What I am needing
Am greedy for,
A steady diet: low in misery and high in poetry!

I bear witness:
Words take me higher and wider than
Wingspans
Of every eagle
Across this land.
Call me her highness, I am regal
Among majestics and minions 
Spilling ideas and opinions,
Testifying triumphs and sorrows
Today 
And a trillion tomorrows: 
First Tuesdays...
Upstairs:
Poets squawk their wares:
'Come here suga and git to this...
Where I bear witness... 

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This piece is inspired by 
and dedicated to all the 
ever-inspiring and aspiring poets 
and griots of the A2 Poetry Slam.


I Bear Witness by PhauxShaux

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