That Country Song
Makes me feel some kind of way.
Speeding down the empty road,
Faster and faster around the bends.
Adrenaline bursting from the seams.
Trees drenched in gold, windows down.
Hands out, fingertips catching the breeze
Belting out that country song at the top of our lungs,
Singing until our throats hurt.
Smiling until our cheeks burn.
Purposefully aimless.
Taking the long way to absolutely nowhere.
Not thinking about the way we feel.
Forgetting all of the background noise.
Just us.
Here.
Now.
Don’t speak.
Don’t stop.
Just drive until the gold drips from the sky.
Make wishes on the stars and
Follow the moon back home.
Let the night sky swallow us whole.
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A Flower Song
Apparently the Aztecs, Toltecs, Chichimecs and other Mexica were crazy about poetry. Despite the book-burning, slaughter, and epidemics that characterized the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the empires of Mexico, some hundreds of poems from the height of their tradition come down to us in Classical Nahuatl, preserved by Nahua and Spanish scholars of the 16th century. One of the most famous poets, Nezahualcoyotl, was a sage-king who opposed the cult of human sacrifice associated with Tezcatlipoca, God of the Smoking Mirror, and favored Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Flowers and feathers were the favorite offering of the Plumed Serpent. Moreover, flowers and feathers are a metaphor for poetry. Individual words, scattered petals, the down of tropical birds. The temples of blood sacrifice could be transformed into temples of flower and song. A sublimated offering to the Heart of Earth and the Heart of Sky encapsulated in the Classical Nahuatl kenning for poetry: in xōchitl in cuīcatl, meaning, "the flower and the song." The following poem is part of a longer work, and is in a state of flux, so take the waters as they flow:
By Rob Angeli3 days ago in Poets
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