Wednesday, May 18, 2005

A-Z

A-Z

Z has lost sight of the music
All he seeks is glory

I hadn’t seen it before
I was a glory-seeker myself

I am A and earning it
Doing my best to live

Always in the music
Let no one, nothing, draw me out

Be drawn in
Let no one, nothing, draw me out

Always in the music
Doing my best to live

I am A and earning it
I was a glory-seeker myself

I hadn’t seen it before

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This poem isn't super great, but it's conception was kind of interesting. Initially, it was about "Z" - someone in the music department where I go to school who I had felt had lost sight of his priorities - his aim was glory, not music, beauty, or truth. I began writing this poem in my Spanish class - I am left-handed and Leonardo da Vinci is one of my heroes, so I often write my poetry backwards - and this particular day, I decided that I'd write my poem upside down as well. I read it back, inverted from the way it had sort of spun from my mind - and ended up kind of having a revelation about myself.

So the first part of the poem is as written what more or less spun from my mind, and with the pivoting line "Be drawn in," the poem flips over and inverts itself.

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