The prophet's place is oft misunderstood
to think in terms of miracles and such
conclusions drawn the gauging is the good
with wine availed upon that sacred touch.
Reminders come of abrogated rules
when for a fact the past has had its run
now offered up a treasure trove of tools
on barren beds whence rivers had their run.
Demystified the margins on the main
exposed the earth in angles once unclear
the world at large to read and ascertain
the lock in stone forever being here.
The prophet's place implies the Grantor's Trust
but that we've ground that granite into dust.
-Richard-
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I have been reading I have been reading the biographies of poets (Milton Wordworth, Bryon, Shelley, Keats). Interesting stuff. Demystifying the poets and perhaps myself. And so true to your words. It is a place of a sacred trust which in almost always misunderstood.
Wonderful sonnet, Richard...
. ...as always!
Marianne
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Thank you
Thank you, Marianne, for gracing my page, as always. Poets have been ahead of their time but they have also challenged us, and that has sometimes been a sore point. Resistance to change, also maintaining the status quo. Yet, they are also like magnets, drawing us up, perhaps as metal shavings, that we might become part of them, that we, too, might experience that zone. In any case, that which is, is, actually understood or not. Mind you, we are all being true to ourselves...
All the poets you name worked from the same base, or Source, hence the impact, the mystery, and also the demystifying. Go-betweens are such a neat idea, don't you think?
Richard
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Awesome!
An awesome sonnet, Richard! The prophet's place is surely often misunderstood, with expectations of quasi-magical hocus-pocus replacing awe of the sacred Mystery. Some would even deny the legitimacy of certain prophets, placing emphasis on only one that is part of a particular body of tenets. But yet, Mystery remains, the Grantor's Trust therein implied. Brilliant, and bravo!
Carol
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Thank you
Thank you, Carol, for the insightful and validating feedback. Your words here are rather a poem in themselves. Glad you liked this particular sonnet.
Richard
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