Poet of the Moment

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Poet of the Moment

The Poet of the Moment for this issue is:

Ivan Crockett

Hunt, Texas

Ivan Crockett is a junior at Tom Moore High School in Ingram, Texas. I was alerted to his writing abilities by his English teacher Holly Riedel-Matthews. Actually, we had met many years before when he was a youngster and we had a shared interest in snakes. It's clear from reading this piece that Ivan's talents are widespread. Holly informs me that he's the new editor of the high school online literary magazine Warrior Song. I hope that we're able to coax him into sending us more.

-- tony gallucci

31 January 2002

It's becoming so shamefully and unmistakably trodden on by false perceptions

That it's throwing me off balance

As I seem to have perceived the logic

An internal transformation occurring in progression

Embodying the existence of confusion

And undermining the things that once brought me balance

The mind of obscurity being misinterpreted as the epitome of irrationality

Fabricating the insecurities that have enveloped me

As it seeps into every realm of knowledge that enlightens me

Distorting reality furthermore

Wrenching something so intensely that balance abruptly becomes merciless turmoil

Elaboration on the basis of this incomparable circumstance proves itself irrelevant

As it's absence provides the notion o unconfined interpretation

There has been a distinction made that different realms will exist in an intricate balance

of shaping a shockingly erratic disruption into the existence of rational tranquility

Proceeding to extract the element of positive existence

And endeavoring among the expansive depths of consciousness

Inevitably presenting feelings of utter elation, eternally and divinely

Being brought into existence upon my own accumulation of distinct and deviated thoughts

I am warm, finding serenity and revival in my own solitary perceptions

A plausible interpretation of this reflection should be absorbed through pensive flexibility

And should be perceived as the existence of a passionately intensified light not known to be in existence

Providing positive stimuli to the unrelenting enigma of the human mind

Momentarily I stand betwixt

As I have not yet determined the outcome of realization

As it is likely to provide the restoration of balance

While, unfortunately, coinciding with the chilling sensation of perpetual isolation

My own interpretation of this transformation

Involves the realization that life can remain sustainable through the reestablishment of spiritual connection

Encompassing the sensation of oneness with all life forms in the profound diversity of our natural world

Existence of this sought after fulfillment relies on the seemingly ungraspable concept of a needed social evolution

And the necessary realization that coexistence must be a widespread reality,

Current methods of rudimentary industry prove to be unjustifiably inefficient

Creating a concealed chasm in the crucial findings of fulfillment

The same fulfillment that establishes a basis of sustainable brilliance