The Oral Tradition - Brian McSweeney

[Larry Robinson]

The Oral Tradition

Read great poems and store them in your heart
No external storage devices are needed
When you begin to fathom the depths
Of the Oral Tradition and start your trek
Into the intricate wilderness of memory.
Of course no one in this casual modern world
Crisscrossed by information super highways
Told you that your own mind is a net
Trawling the seas of infinity,
And the ports of memory you anchor in,
Each one a place from which to disembark,
To trek into vast unexplored mindscapes,
And the synapses your mind weaves effortlessly
While you toil in the fields of poetry husbandry
Will simply surprise you endlessly.

	- Brian McSweeney