can I for one moment
embrace the spirit of Poe
as I sit in the courtyard
of his museum
maybe not ….
I do know his
emotional torment
the sadness
associated with
the mood of darkness
where melancholy
is brought about
from hypersensitivity
the being tapped into ~
~ the cosmic vibe
the music of the spheres
however … I have not
found the harmony
as taught by Pythagoras
and yet the sound
the gibberish noise
does humanize
my poetic rendition
which I perceive
not only through the five
but the sixth sense as well
and if you factor in
personal inhibitions
my poetry
and prose
would no doubt be
somewhat different
than Poe’s ….. for instance
how he and I would describe
through word
the structural character
of the courtyard fountain
at the Poe Museum
just off east main street
in Richmond …. Virginia
Image & Words by ~Keith Alan Hamilton~