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The poetic city: “Shortcut to Enlightenment”

Oct 22, 2018 • Creative Writing

The thinker (Auguste Rodin) in a garden. (Photo: Dwight Burdette)

Shortcut to Enlightenment

It’s a playful game

with serious intent

The goal of which

is enlightenment

Sometimes I play it

While walking the walk

Around the golf course

In Audubon Park

To enter a zone

Where all effort is shed

I simply pretend

I am already dead.

In that state of

Timeless relevance

Each object speaks with

Its own eloquence

Upon returning to the

Familiar paradigm

I carry with me a

Pinch of the sublime

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