A Lilac Not Painted

By Alain Gracio

A Lilac not painted (2000-2011) is a series of poems that took about a decade to write. Out of hundreds of poems composed and written during the past decade. Ive selected what I think are the best series of poems for publishing. You the reader will be the judge. The poems here represented are a continual amalgam of life experiences, and observations. Joseph Campbell once said, that we should not me seeking the meaning of life, but the experience of life itself and I agree with him wholeheartedly.
I am proud of each poem here represented. They are my children. The process of writing poems is being in a constant elevated state of consciousness. It is life, nature, and spirituality as they might reveal themselves to us. Robert Frost wrote that a poem begins, When we feel a lump in our throat. Many of poems have begun this way followed by a clarification of life.
Novalis wrote, The seat of the soul is where both the inner, and outer world meet. This is the center from whence my poetry stems. I write to myself first. I am my first audience. Im hoping as I release these poems and share them with you that they will be easy and simple to understand. My last and only humble desire is that you the reader might experience and realize the power of the written word for yourselves and in your life.
Sincerely

Alain Gracio

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462865963

Alain Gracio

Alain Gracio was born Alfredo A. Garcia on August 29, 1964 in San Francisco Ca. His Nom de plume came about when another poet friend couldn't pronounce his name and just called him Alain, which stuck, and Gracio is a letter play on his last name. His father moved the family to Nicaragua in 1972 where the author accumulated the bulk of his enduring lifetime memories and experiences. He started writing poetry and prose when he was 9 years old nursing a infected leg that kept him bedridden for a couple of months. His first major influences were the great modernist Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario, and some other local Nicaraguan poets and writers. Alain Gracio moved back to California in 1980. Soon after graduating from High School he joined the U.S army, where he traveled all over the United States, giving according to him the second best education of his life. The first one being his 6 years he spent living in Nicaragua during the tumultuous Civil War that engulfed the country and experiencing stress and trauma of war for a lifetime. His other major influences include William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and the Great one Rainer Maria Rilke. Alain Gracio currently makes his home in San Jose, California, with his wife Leslie and 10-year-old son Jared. Alain is currently attending college pursuing his lifelong goal of an English Degree and is currently working on a novel and two other poetry books.

Book preview

1. A lilac not painted

Perched high above

A mountain boulder

A swelled

Unpainted

Lilac

Lies

Entrenched

Indifferent.

Her

Permeated

Azure colored

Petals

Swirl,

Gyrate,

Eternally flowing,

Towards a kaleidoscope

Of nature’s best

Untold.

Tilted

Inconspicuously

To the naked eye

Its sinuous roots

Extract

Liquid life

From its dark womb

Of conception.

Silently,

From its telluric abyss

Of pods, seeds, and twines

A lament cries out.

"Hear me!

See me!"

Her wimpled voice languors,

Yet, we hear her not,

Nor, we see her not,

So she will go,

Unpainted,

Unnoticed,

Until we are not.

2. Mother

You,

Pathetic monster

Of ghostly

Memories.

Do you not see?

The shame!

The bitterness!

The inflicted self-destruction

You entrusted me with!

It is a steadfast circle of

Pain that only time and I

Can take away.

So for now I will let you die,

And slowly dissolve,

From within my existence

Until eternity recedes

And condenses.

Then you and I

We will see the promise of

The eternal blue sun

With its impaling azure rays

Erode the canyon of

The barren silence

Of our sorrows.

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