Many deep expressions to see life
Poetry is beautiful

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Jaynie, this post catches me at a time where I'm about to head out the door for a nature excursion/field-trip with some friends all afternoon. Will return to it and offer some reflections later this evening or tomorrow :-)

These are all very moving and beautiful. You must never say you are not a poet again. You've so got this! Each of these could have been presented as its own post, they all stand alone.

My favorite bit, so very true, but only those of us who have been through this can possibly understand:

When will we become cognizant?

We will take for granted until grace is required.
Hide from the needs of others until we ourselves need to be found.
Laugh at the expense of others until scorned ourselves.
Selfish until we need a selfless response.

xo

The priest is almost always. A poet in his being. With wine this was a great read and long! Some sentences are capturing my life

Thank you for mentioning me and bringing this to my attention @jaynie, I'm happy to have been a part of the 'metaphysical nudge' that prompted you to post these.
Like @d-pend, I am getting ready to head out to perform, so I'm reblogging this, that way I can come back and give it the serious attention it deserves!

Great poetry @jaynie! I had to take a cold shower after reading a couple of them! 😇

These are beautiful poetry @jaynie, and you name yourself "not a poet"?!? What is poetry then!!! Hahaha! 😂

But I love what you said about "nudges" you experience that made you go back into this beautiful memory lane. That is very true. Sometimes, small, little nudges are all that it takes to release the emotions all over again.

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My regards, @jaynie. I hadn't had a chance to read any of his poetry. I think that his poetic saying is of quality, beyond the fact that he has not dedicated himself to poetry as a continuous activity. I believe that indeed, "to make visible the invisible" is a right way to express the essence of poetry, as already thought by the romantics in the XIX century; that which Socrates expresses through Diotima in the dialogue The banquet of Plato, when she says that "poiesis is to pass from not-being to being".
It seems to me that eroticism is very well achieved in the poem "My Shadow"; and quite well in "The Seduction of Love", although this one is perhaps more direct.
There is a visual, delicate, captivating proposal in "Break the frame" and in "Today I walked".
I like the reflective tone of "Cognizant".
Thank you and greetings.

Jaynie, fantastic post. I want to offer a few things. This:

The moments are never planned or predetermined… I get completely enveloped by emotion – overwhelmed and consumed. Then, I write. The words are never strained, and they land one after the other in a completely seamless and symphonic manner. To me, those moments are pure blissful release, irrespective of the emotion ultimately depicted by the culmination of those individual characters.

reminds me of one of my favorite quotes about poetry. William Wordsworth said “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” For me, it is a way of processing those overwhelms, whether experienced as painful or pleasureful, and coming back to the center of who we truly are.

I read the quote, “The poet is the priest of the invisible” and it made complete sense to me. This is exactly how I experience it. Everything that is unseen – all the passion, hurt, desire, rage, love – all of it! In those moments, they all show themselves – speaking their truth through almost cryptic lyrics which display a yearning to be heard yet protected.

Poetry, again for me, is a straining at the bounds of usual language in order to express that which transcends ordinary speaking's ability to encompass the grandeur or grand-squalor of an inner state. There is a yearning to make oneself known, heard, and seen—not only to and by others, but most of all to oneself.

You write with evident passion, and I believe that is the truest prerequisite for a poet—to feel deeply. This likely extends to art in a more general sense, as creative products without heart are mere exercises in technical brilliance but do not touch us at great depth.

This

I want to feel
the satin of your world
against the skin of mine.

Was probably my favorite line out of all of them and a powerful conclusion to "Today I walked." Otherwise, I enjoyed the intensity and message of "Cognizant," and really sunk into the rhythm of "Salt on my lips." I want to acknowledge you for sharing all of these—says a lot that you are willing to share this part of yourself with us all :-)

I've always viewed poetry very much like photography and enjoy it for it's great similarities: everyone thinks that they can do it, yet it takes skill and passion to do it well to stand the test of time. Poetry, like photography, is a device to move people, to bring out an emotion in them whether they feel they understand it or not, and without that emotional upheaval the art will have failed.

Yours is not the first, or the second, or the third set of poems I've come across lately that all but demand an attention to the body and craving for touch. I wonder, do we all miss it that much?

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I didn't know you wrote poems too! They're very beautiful! I'm not good at writing poems, I don't know how to rhyme the phrases.lol

Wow. Each poem is just overflowing with passion and energy, and 'Salt on My Lips' was a very fitting resolution after starting out with a bang and climaxing.

Wipe it off,
and walk on,
salt is good for wounds.

This resonates so deeply!

Thank you @jaynie for sharing. <3

I can really hear your personal voice in each of these poems.

Reminds me of what I once heard a poet say, Poetry is the history of the human heart.

You may not call yourself a poet, but your poems shape you as one. A pretty good one! Break the frame and Salt on my lips were my favourites. Maybe because I am drawn more to darker poetry. Anyway, I loved reading your poems. Did you ever think of self-publishing?