Folklore Night Sky: Overcoming Ancestry#

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 2         Folklore Night Sky
 3
 4
 5    surrounded by mountains, jungle
 6    exotic folk 
 7    quite a few, twisted tongues
 8    there, there lived a boy
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10    loved dearly by poets,
11    his family, his people, home
12    tenacious and proud bunch
13    fought, many a battle
14    as did demons overcome
15    
16    stories like stars
17    in the night sky, dark
18    lit up, colored 
19    the boy's childhood
20    his whole mind 
21    
22    as the sun lights the moon
23    and each solstice feeds the crops
24    boy, oh boy, obsessed with family folklore
25    all he wanted, to become
26    just a poet to adore
27    
28    A proper poet?
29    poor, dear boy!
30    there ain't battles!
31    demons, nor heroic goals!
32    to be known for
33    aspire or dream of
34    anymore
35    
36    peace here reigns supreme!
37    my folk, my pride, secure
38    as are all nearby fields
39    
40    fine! I'll depart
41    write my stories, disappear 
42    find my battles, birth my demons
43    I ain't just kind, nor sweet
44    Also not at all naive!
45    
46    love I found, and was ripped
47    courage showed, and it also
48    disappeared
49    
50    hardships all, of course, a trivial feat
51    sometimes
52    perhaps a bit
53    
54    a poet, found
55    found it all
56    a poet lost
57    never, no
58    
59    perhaps sometimes
60    a bit
61
62
63    — Jayson Salazar Rodriguez 
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65      Samstag, 9. September 2023   
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Footnotes#

This poem was originally written for KAMINA’s[1] act at the Heidelberger Literaturherbst 2023[2].

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