Expoetation (with video)

We mine your clouds
for their silver linings
collect your tears
to irrigate their sorrow,
appropriate your joy
to fulfil a need to ode
we’ll even take your crap
to fertilise our nightmares

poets gather, mine, harness, exploit
we refine and distil it
and return it to you
different,
but still yours

https://youtu.be/43W97xTTUcU

About This Poem

Last Few Words: I'm doing a few readings on Youtube. The quality will get better when I lean to combine my camera footage with my laptop cam footage

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Sydney, Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: The Romantics, The Mersey Sound, The Beats and, of course, The Bard

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Comments

weirdelf

7 years 2 months ago

I did add 'last few words'

is that what you meant?
It's shaky because it is emotional. I sometimes feel like poets exploit life, though giving something back.

weirdelf

7 years 2 months ago

I put the link there

but you are right,
putting the text there they can see it at the same time.

tyro

7 years 2 months ago

I love this poem because it

I love this poem because it rings so true. It's like being reunited with a family member who was raised as you, with same values and insights. One I will keep close to me.
Thank you.

weirdelf

7 years 2 months ago

great! I like the humor and the word play. mining for silver / linings. crap to fertilize nightmares. the last lines are powerful, too. "return it to you different but still yours." the way poetry is a gift that has been refined and distilled in our minds. I think that's one of the things I love best about writing at this point in my life: personalizing philosophy and (shared) experience. thanks for the poem!