Pieces of Us

By Scott Christian

In considering sources for inspired poetics, we focus on prominent experiences and the people who made them unique. Sometimes we discover purpose in ourselves, sometimes in others, but the more we look the more we see that the essence of poetry is alive in all things. This book of poems highlights, in its modest fashion, a range of distinctly human moments, where life's beauty manifests and is translated into an art of words. Through poems, an effort is made to distinguish the sort of beauty central to our existence. Some see and do not act, some act without seeing, and neither is right or wrong in the context of an individual's undeniable significance. Such is the content of these works-- an effort to celebrate the collaboration of all people working to enrich their shared lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scott Christian
• Release date: May 30, 2018

Book preview

implore to endure

i will peel down to skin

that’s sweat soaked and heat softened

by your demands, lovely summer.

i will engage broad day weakly, as spent strength

evaporates,

emptying marrow to entertain

the convictions of your fervor.

lay your lashings square

on these blistering shoulders.

fill this body with usurping passions

to power me through numb winter,

through the death

of mortal landscapes,

into the sky-toll of your zenith season.

courteous flex around mad-happy moments

she trains to stifle belly laughs

when someone inadvertently reveals

pure truths

from the foundry of their soul,

where raw humanity is fashioned

by God’s diligence.

she trains to stifle inopportune tears

when someone unconsciously commits

profound beauty—

acts practically made like new life born in action,

delivered thriving into the bosom

of hopeful hearts.

she trains to mock no discrepancy

between expectation

and the alloyed fact of human