Reverberate Song

 

reverberate song

i wish to speak of soul as the gut of all longing

 

that affective being as sung through this physical body

 

as a hollowness yearning the comforting call of the mind

 

as a musical holler of sweet sour guttural nostalgia

 

nostalgia for nothing but moments of sensed non-belonging

 

and belonging as the sensual song of being a nobody

 

yet a nobody longing new heritage of some other kind

 

that burns in one part of the heart as soulful cardialgia

 

as soul made of sound solely being of solid reality

 

as a lingered strange knowledge of wholeness in deep separation

 

as if being at-one while atoning ones being alone

 

but alone as all-one yet knowing oneself seeming wrong

 

seeming wrong as sensed being right for ones whole corporeality

 

that estrangedness of being conceived in mistook alienation

 

of solitude borne-out as physical right down to the bone

 

as the bones in the soles of ones feet that reverberate song

Poem: 'reverberate song'
© john william brown 29 September 2019

 

HB Pencil Drawing:'A Skull Study. April-May 2023' 

(Completed 10 May 2023. A4)
© john william brown 10 May 2023