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14th Anniversary Edition, Live Encounters Poetry & Writing Volume Four Nov-Dec 2023.
Intentional Motions, poems by Scott Thomas Outlar.
Intentional Motions
A photographer
eying loti in utero
through a divinely
focused lens
An artist
appreciating her perfect
nature at work
Clicking on all cylinders
ebbing in the tide
A connoisseur
witnessing Magdalena
in another era
A soldier
badgered by peace
beleaguered by the wages of war
Glass sheen waterfalls
reflecting crystalline consciousness
honed to the finest degree
a thousand cliches
can be laced in the coding
of mundane lines
and same old stories
but magic is gorged
to the gills with primordial guts
designed for weaving
a world of infinite imagination
4th & Chapel
Open house
prayer rooms
near St. John’s cemetery
each one offers
a little taste
of God’s flesh
from different angles
of perception
on the globe
High and flighty with the angels
or six feet under carbon layers
everywhere you turn
in life
someone is doing something
or other
Out and about
constructing the world
or laying down
lazy bones
like the morning cat
sat up
and yawning
in the window
and add a lion
bronze or rusted
proud in stone
playing sentinel
or cherub
with fur aflame
A Monster of Light in Motion
Assimilate
disparately dichotic parts
to align the structured whole
fractals and fragments
shards and splinters
pieces and particles
Chaos scrambles
the pattern’s picture
with white noise
and scattered signals
until cohesion
of honed consciousness
coalesces
the vibrational
sound scape
into more highly
ordered shapes
and forms
cymatic intentions
sacred geometrical premonitions
pulse rays and photons
stars and spirals
pinpoints and needles
© Scott Thomas Outlar
Scott Thomas Outlar is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. He now lives and writes in Frederick, Maryland. His work has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. His essay “Daydreaming Dystopia” placed second in the 2023 Bellarmine Goes Gonzo Writing Contest. He guest-edited the Hope Anthology of Poetry from CultureCult Press as well as the 2019-2023 Western Voices editions of Setu Mag. Selections of his poetry have been translated and published in 15 languages. He has been a weekly contributor at Dissident Voice for the past nine years. More about Outlar’s work can be found at https://17numa.com/