Raison D’être
by Paul Tristram / July 21st, 2024
The Rewards of ‘Abnegation’
… greedy people
stay ‘Shallow’… fuck ‘em!
Neither ‘Self-Annihilation’
nor ‘Conformity’…
[Artistically] Forging
A Different Path… is not
‘Brave’ or ‘Arrogant’
when it’s the only thing
that makes any… SENSE!!!
I will not clutter in cliques,
I’m unpre-fucking-dictable
because I refuse to ‘Follow’
… no ‘Template’…
all ‘Skill’ and ‘Conduit’.
“I flutter ravens in amongst
syllable-chains, outdoing
yesterday’s Craft is a good
day’s work, you’re irrelevant,
and my ‘Focus’ and ‘Vision’
is all the Road I’ll be needing.”
Paul Tristram is a widely published Welsh writer who deals in the Lowlife, Outsider, and Outlaw genres. He wrote his first poem as a teenager following his release from the (Infamous) Borstal ‘HMP Portland’, and he has been creating Literary Terrorism ever since. His novel ‘Crazy Like Emotion’ is available to purchase right
here . Also his collection of shorter fiction Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves' is available to purchase at
https://bookgoodies.com/a/B0DFMTSR4F Both books are published by Close To The Bone Publishing.
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This article was posted on Sunday, July 21st, 2024 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.
