Sheer Vision

You’d rather not say it offensively but there 

isn’t a way to express an SOS without your 

clanging bells or hooting loudly on horns; if 

too stiff-upper-lip to be seen as demeaning 

oneself adorned in distress flags a-warning 

“Be cautious, travesties afoot, tread warily” 

then step away from the pulpit. Decide you 

care it is a rite of passage for wisdom & wit 

Declare amnesty on trite verse that rhymes 

with compulsive rigour, brighten stars up a 

bit with the view it’s poetry in another form, 

lights shining vigorously where illumination 

has rare need to declare, or suborn, deeds 

of a sublime pen sketching sheer visions 

And in the fundament we’ll be relieved our 

prejudiced idea of what matters to who by 

sharing passion for words that matter - for 

words dressed with our emotional mien in 

every rainbows’ best expression of all that 

makes us wish to wear the poet’s cape 

© 2 November 2013, I. D. Carswell