A stanza sampler.Byline: The Register-Guard From "Portrait of a Rumor" by Nathan Langston: Across town, the crowds gather beneath the heat of red neon and conversated convolutions and evolutions of revolutions and raved waves of wicked lyrics into reflected chrome of microphone and rant and chant and pant pant v. To breathe rapidly and shallowly. their poems through the bones, prophetic pro·phet·ic also pro·phet·i·cal adj. 1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy: prophetic books. 2. tones, as though they could spell the future. ... Now I see us, floating lightheaded light·head·ed adj. 1. Faint, giddy, or delirious: lightheaded with wine. 2. Given to frivolity; silly. light and lighthearted light·heart·ed adj. Not being burdened by trouble, worry, or care; happy and carefree. See Synonyms at glad1. light through the colorful cacophony and symphony sounds of the city, speaking a million words at the speed of light but only meaning "maybe... maybe..." Maybe at the velocity of possibility we could be free, to see the future as we want it to be as we wear out shoe soles on the souls of the bridges, smoke bowls, make love, blow our guts out on didges and all the cynicism cannot stop romanticism romanticism, term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent. Characteristics of Romanticism Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had or the truth that's in momentums of youth! |
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