Guest Poet: Michael White

the children of Rimbaud

assume the duty 

to unleash rhetoric bombs

that explode the myths

of greed and possessiveness

and narrow-minded prejudice 

with the minstrel candor

and prophetic honesty

singing in the blood

to the drum beat of the heart

about redemption

from the diseases of society

and the unsung suffering

of those outside the law

sneered at

then revered

in the ocean of time

with mind romps

                        metaphoric jumps

                                     lyrical laments

                                                and cynical openness  

to the rain of inspiration

of tender paranoid recognition

of the new plague years

run rampant

leaving it to the poet 

filled with venom and wonder

to open the veins

and spill out the truth