Free Associations Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

A bright idea spontaneously mixed
with waters from a wide vocabulary
oils wheels of thought which very soon are fixed,
flash p[l]ans to channel thoughts tu[r]ned poetry.
Verse with or without mental gymnastics
trips from tongue as playful kitten, strophe
footloose leaps, ignoring stones and sticks,
provoking ripples which preclude catastrophe.
Assonance, alliteration, acrostics,
tickle innate emotions oft compressed
within the minds recesses consciously
till free associations are expressed, -
osmosis in a blaze of ecstasy
firing synapses which gun jump to f[l]ree.
Thus, finally, communion we see
and feel, communication letting the
damm[n]ed barriers collapse, and, falling, be
come spring permitting priority
of tolerance at last to flourish free.
Prejudice is ever reassessed.
Enlightenment and understanding we
combine with all humanity holds best
to lend the world’s ephemerality
an instant yet infinite quality
without which much of mankind’s energy
would be dispersed, his rights stripped, dispossessed
without the vain futility protest
proposes to conscience clear, to test
the spiral of its own validity.
A fruitless search - as immortality
like life - a ghost of Christmas yet to be -
“is bound in shallows and in misery”.
One must, therefore, retain some sanity
avoiding misconceptions, vanity, -
sterile assertions, open heresy, -
press on towards enlightenment to free
the soul - avoiding blindness we feel we
cannot escape, or prefer not to do -
for fear of what we’ll find, - which once we knew.