Navel-Gazing*
If you look too long at you
you see nothing else. They say
the art becomes abstract and distorted,
ends up being devoured by narcissistic
demons. Â (Writing as if You mattered?)
Better to write about birds,
or birds in branches in trees,
or birds in branches in trees in December.
Looking up, away, outward
is the true art of poesy, they say.
They say you are conceited in this conditional
demand that reading you means
seeing you, all guts and gruesome glory.
Self-pronounced identity poured sloppily
across white paper like dark-black blood
across white-silk sheets. They say, you
are just too raw! Seeping and spreading stains
across the innocent white fabric — now ruined
by the heartbeat of warm red iron and oxygen —
destroying forever the pretty-pristine vision we prefer.
*n. Slang
Marissa Colleen Mullins 
Thanks for the commentary and invite. Both are appreciated. Went to Jinglepoetry and would love to contribute – not finding a sign-in area or the MaLinky? Help?! Thanks and blessings, Marissa
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our potluck week 17 is open now, welcome linking in 1 to 3 old poems as the first time participant…
Enjoy a lovely Monday!
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leave your entry and email address in the comment if you could not find the blue button…click on the title of the potluck post and good luck…
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Oh, I just now saw your comment here about the questions, I guess the notifications for the reply haven’t got to me.You go to the post Monday Potluck and down is a blue button saying Add link and you add the link to your poem there, your name and your e-mail/ e-mail will not be visible/ It’s open until Wednesday so you still have the time to add a link.
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Interesting, creative, different. I like it!
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that evokes a multitude of thoughts and feelings. nice. I like it. i hope it doesn’t apply to me though!
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Thanks for reading and for commenting. No, doesn’t apply to you! Is more of a satire/commentary on the establishments view of poets. I’m working on an essay of the same topic – hope to post it soon.
Blessings,
Marissa
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