Imagination

You've got to have it.

Your imagination is a muscle,

stretching possibility,

Mind abducted from its cage,

sent spinning through

The galaxies that you forge

of azure gods and umbrous knaves.

Your imagination is a muscle

in a sprinter's legs, 

light's arrows outpaced. 

A coiling, uncoiling snake, 

in a bristling Hydra head,

Epics to birth, myths to shape.

Your imagination is a muscle 

pulsing in a ballerina’s feet,

arched high on impossibility’s lake.

A muscle loosened 

like a kite on the wind.

Oft clenched as a comet before it flares.

A  pianist’s fingers,

leaping from octave to lilting octave.

Till a universe blinks awake. 

Your imagination is a muscle,

flexed in a boxer’s fists,

punching holes in reality,

letting dreams flood me in waves.

Author's Note

This is whimsical, abstract and may feel disjointed. The concept is slightly complicated and experimental. Thanks for reading.

Reviews

[Ayesha Faiz]

This poem is really beautiful. I love how you show imagination as something alive and full of power. The pictures you create with your words feel real, like I can see and feel them. The ending is strong and meaningful. It really shows how imagination can break limits and bring new worlds to life. Thanks for sharing this!

[DIVYA]

Thank you very much, Ayesha.

[Relic]

I was told that exercise is what boosts our thinking processes and helps with imagination. It has to do with the back of the brain. That's a technical description, but your poem is certainly a greater description of imagination itself when it's working on all cylinders. I love all the lines and the way they flow, exuding the benefits of imagination.

[DIVYA]

Thank you so much for the very kind review, dear Relic.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I just wrote a piece very similar in content and metaphor...interesting coincidence...somehow we were on the same wavelength....
I will post it now.
This is a lovely piece filled with "imagination" of metaphor...
The first stanza is so powerful it could stand on its own as a poem.
j.

[DIVYA]

Thank you very much, dear Jacob.