A Poet's Heart Emanating

Joy

Wisdom

Love

Music

Uplifting

Breathing

Poetry

Master writing

From his soul

Emanating

Reaching into yours

Captivating

Calling you to be

A force to be reckoned

A voice to be heard

Amid the endless noise

Compassionate creating

Spread a unique message

One that only you can tell

That lives beyond its creator

Re-created new each day

In the hearts of those who listen

Who will linger with it a moment

And come again to understand

In meekness and most innocent love

We can hear the music flow to Heaven

Its notes aglow with jazz and rhythm

Here lie the secrets of the multiverse

For all eternity to muse and breathe in

The simple breezes of a life well lived.

At this point in the writing of this poem, I would tag Michael Hall, and thank him once again for creating this Syllabic Form| the Culminating 30.

Often he would be the very first to respond, with gratitude and joy and encouragement. He once remarked that I wrote more pieces with his form than he had, and he was so happy about that. He was present to us always.

This piece was purposely written using many of his motifs and images as well as his form, in tribute to a great person, an amazing poet. His absence will be a great loss to me, to all of us who share poetry with him.

He left us at 3:14 am the morning after Christmas, succumbing to COVID.

The Christmas painting by my good friend, Moh’d Bilbeisi, seems to so properly fit Michael’s effort in this world to pour out his heart in his poetry. (Thank you, Moh’d).

Please take a minute with me and read one of Michael’s last poems:

Originally published on Medium.com on December 28,2021.

Michael Hall “Syllabic Poetry — the Culminating 30”

Poem — Copyright © 2021, Robert G. Metivier. All Rights Reserved.

Artwork — Copyright © 2021, Moh’d Bilbeisi. All Rights Reserved.