Praise to Poetry
You are our first records
That describe the lives of our ancestors.
You are our first songs
That become our live-long lover.
You are our first stories
That blessed generations with entertainment
and enlightenment.
You are our first therapy sessions
In time where the sciences were in the
realm of gods and demons.
You are our first piece of art
That helped us see the beauty and wonder in
this terrible world.
You are the first heartbeat of our humanity.
How To Write Poetry
Rip out your beating heart,
Drop it in a vat of multicolour inks until
it soaks them all up,
Plant it firmly into the ground,
Wait and watch it bloom into a rampaging
waterfall,
Prune out the wayward weeds and breaking
branches,
Collect the beautiful yet out-of-place
leaves for future seeds,
Kiss the petals kindly before you pluck
them from their stems,
Then press the flowers onto a blank page.
Pens
They are might than swords for they are
wands,
Continuously casting charms, curses, and
enchantments
Of such velocity, vigour, valour, and power,
Of such beauty and horror
Made by such simple movements of the fingers and wrists.
Born a first-generation Mexican-Canadian-American
autistic with ADHD, Dana Trick lives in Southern California where it is clearly
foolish to wear black any day but she does it anyway. Besides writing, she
spends/wastes her day by either reading weird books and comics; researching the
history of certain topics because she is an historian and has the degree to
prove it; drawing crappy art and comics strips; and/or watching an unhealthy
amount of cartoons, anime, and YouTube videos. Her work has been published
online--in the Art of Autism, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Quiver Review,
and The Ugly Writers--as well as in print with the 2018 Moorpark College Print
Review and the Poets’ Choice "Realm of Emotions" anthology. She
wishes the reader a nice day.
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