To Paint Original Poems

I sit at a table of words
attempting to paint original poems
that might be remembered
for a mirrored moment
in someone’s life.

I leave my chair
and walk in pensive circles,
through pools of wet rainbow images,
splashing verbal colors in a room without walls,
an infinite room without closed doors.
The floor is over-crowded
with unlabeled museum exhibits of joy and pain.

I sit back down to continue writing.
Trying to weld iron images
that are firm, yet, untouchable.
Visual words that will float like dreams.
Deliberate words, enduring words
that will slowly step down
from the ladder leaning
on the open window of my closed eyes.

David Lipsitz has been writing poems for over fifty years. His poems have appeared in BIG WINDOWS REVIEW, CAPE ROCK, CHAFFIN JOURNAL, FROM THE DEPTHS, MAIN STREET RAG, UPPAGUS, WASHINGTON SQUARE REVIEW, and other literary publications. His chapbook, ILLUSIONS ON THE ROAD, was published by Bragdon Books.