In the beginning was the word, the word
That from the solid bases of the light
Abstracted all the letters of the void;
And from the cloudy bases of the breath
The word flowed up, translating to the heart
First characters of birth and death.
~ Dylan Thomas,
In The Beginning
NoPe
The 1st poem wasn’t
Written in English
In fact it wasn’t
Written in any words
At all
The 1st poem
Was a flower that
A hairy cave man gave to
His beloved
Who thoughtfully
Pondered it’s meaning
& then ate it
And without emotion
Left him
For a muscular
Neanderthal
Named Chad
So the first poem
Was actually a failure
A gesture
Of heartbreak & love
Loneliness & longing
But not enough to
Convey it or even
Reach it’s destination
The heart
Or the soul
And on the cave walls
Were painted crude
Drawings depicting mating
To let a woman know
That she was desired
To which their response
Was ” Ew” and a new
Word which they created called
” NO”
But the art approach
Didn’t work
Quite well either
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But once humans
Could speak? Talk?
Well the game
Was on
Hunter gatherers
& Future jock types
Started getting angry
Because skinny guys
In fur beret hats starting
Stealing their women
But they couldn’t figure out how
And to this day
Still cannot
And that’s how it
All began
Poets & artists
Being treated
Like outcasts
Unwanted & disliked
(Musicians soon to follow)
Because they had
Higher IQs
And first somehow knew
That words could be turned
Into “Magic”
& Into light
Spells that could
Invoke what feelings
They held urges they felt
And the things they could see
Or could not
Like the silent moments
Of trees swaying in the distance
Like the beauty of colors in the air
And sea, animals & nature
And within these words
They worshipped all
The mysteries which they
Couldn’t fathom or understand
And turned them
Into something
Called poems
Myths
And gods
So in the beginning
Poetry wasn’t really popular
And still isn’t
But without it
We’d all be lost
For it is the whole
That makes us all human
And what it means to be
Human
And that
Is all we know
That and that throughout
Human history that muscular guys
Named Chad and with similar names
Still hate us
And want to beat us up
Without knowing
Why?
~ R.M. Engelhardt
R.M. ENGELHARDT 