For You – The Apothecary of Poetry – Only For You
By Nikola Nikša Eterović/ Walt Whitman / Rita Soyizwapi
“Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams”
In a formless state you float in space and walk on clouds
but when your dreams escape weight takes form and you can’t float
“I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands”
in your wakefulness dreams slip past fingers and realities can break through
with The Apothecary of Poetry – dreams aren’t lost in every day
“Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you”
Like running into fire, burning everything you are, face daily realities with its dangers
emptying yourself in order to be filled again, relinquish things, leave, burn and fly once again
“Your true soul and body appear before me”
In exposure, there’s sincerity,
Your honesty, honesty alone
“They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying”
You give up living in a dump of the unnecessary like dust clinging to you, repressed to be forgotten,
leave behind the unnecessary to arouse curiosity and resolutely go into the unknown.
“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem”
my inspiration comes from you, yours from me, entwined in poetry,
YoursMine MineYours, fates together entwined in a shared fantasy
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° the world is verse – the verse I live by °
– interactive meeting –
Join The Apothecary Of Poetry, interactive meeting
on Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 6:25pm
In a group of up to seven participants, interactive workshop, duration 5400 blinks – seconds, in English
We are waiting for you!
Nikola Nikša Eterović (Berlin) & Rita Soyizwapi (Johannesburg)
