"The Voyager's Art"

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This is my interpretation of a journey to inner peace. Enjoy!

"The Voyager's Art"

The Voyager’s Art

Inward:

A shifty changer…
He swims in danger.
Dismisses disclaimers…
He miffs his chambers.
Through flippant mangers… 
Simplistic arrangers…
Leave his instance stranger…
…than fiction tamers…
Now a dizzy claimer…
He’s missing anger.
A consistent lifted aimer… 
now slips on liquid brain dirt.
He shifts his framework…
now insists his brain hurts.

Outward:

---------so-----------

He spits his vapors.
On litmus paper…
..…vanishes….
With this caper…
He lifts the acres…
…of lost ground…
gives them invaders…
if this way works…
he makes them pay dirt. 
Yet his inner favor…
still seems wayward.
He grips his chain shirt…
…twists the grey earth…
if ripping makes burst…
it’s worth how they hurt.
He yells and states blurt.
He tells in ways curt…
though hells bells as they spurt…
he himself must stay vert.

The journey long and winding breeds strength.
This quest quells quandaries and breathes life…
Into the cold, faint, dead beat of a lost heart
The voyager who completes it without showing signs…
And finds his inner peace…is the crafty…the skillful..
The voyager’s canvas welcomes the vividly cool…
and colored parts of a brush which strokes through sharp…

----------------the voyager himself…is art------------------
© 2008-2009 Malik Peterson. All Rights Reserved.

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DeepEclipse commented on "The Voyager's Art"

11-24-2009

Hahah you killin that rhyme scheme. So many ways you attack the fluidity of it. Nothing short of skill. It draws an attraction to your writes, and eases the transition of the meaning that much better. Its like he took what was inside and shifted it to art. From inward, to outward. How I saw it anyway. Fluid man. Lovin your skill.

MalikPeterson

11/29/2009

Thanks deep...glad you like it. You are welcome anytime.

KtIrish commented on "The Voyager's Art"

11-23-2009

Strange and twisted, tied my tongue in knots. Took me a minute to get it, but I love it. You are the wordmaster, Master Malik. You are my favorite.

MalikPeterson

11/24/2009

Awww...thanks Kt. I am honored to be your favorite. :)

cliftondurant commented on "The Voyager's Art"

11-23-2009

a lovely poem malik i like it you definitly go talent thanks for sharing

MalikPeterson

11/24/2009

Thanks Cliff...no prob.

blanket commented on "The Voyager's Art"

11-23-2009

Very well crafted! Your flow is always so perfect. I love the introspection here. And of course the references to art.....bravo...as usual. mel.

MalikPeterson

11/24/2009

Thank you so much blanket for taking out the time to read and let me know what you think...always appreciated. :)

dancinghawk commented on "The Voyager's Art"

11-23-2009

lol - FIRST! ha! :) "he makes them pay dirt" ... what a great twist on that phrasing ... and love this theme, the inner and outer thrashings ... the outer bravado that often accompanies changes in inner "framework" ... and the tenacity required of the Voyager to stick with it even when the shifting sands of consciousness make him want to take a nap, lol ... nice write, Malik! ty for the post! -dh

MalikPeterson

11/23/2009

Lol...a well earned FIRST for you dh lol. Thank you for reading and commenting. I love how you just dive into a piece and break it down aspect by aspect. This from you is much appreciated by me. :)

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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