Adriano Nunes: “Poetry"

“Poetry"

Poetry is not this
Nor even this thing
That you are thinking.
Poetry is not what
You say that it is.
Poetry is poetry is...
From the beginning
Only Poetry.

Poetry is not only
This that they say it is.
It is even a strange mix
Of everything
That has been
Said. it is a labyrinth
Where you are at risk,
A dangerous risk

Of entering, of non-being.
Everything seems
To be allowed through it,
Seems to escape the
Abyss of oblivion, of plot,
To be what is and is not.
Poetry is myth
And sign and what

It wants to be, lies or loves.

Adriano Nunes