The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
How Freely The Pristine Yields Its Blessing

Nevermind the severed head of a mammoth
how the antswarm overcame leviathan's breath
and spilt enough blood to stain even the pelagic

Nevermind the extremity of hubris required to
harvest so vast a pristine wilderness of warmth
amid the cold and icy berg of unnatural selection

For having climbed the bitter and angry mountain
of want and needless wandering to overlook its peak,
so unearnedly dawns the milk and honey valley below

Hardening manhood scooped up between cordial fingers
and tickled back into that unctuous innocence of the
young adventurer undaunted, unswaggering, and unswashbuckled

Knotted old sinews reluctant to reach out to imagination's grasp
give back their fluidic ardor to our communal legacy's abyss 
surrender name and crest to the common call to beneficence

Peer into the darkness of the burrowed borrowed cavity 
and find that elven golden luciference that annoints kings
to the more heroic task of divesting for the pearl purchase

Peer into the pensieve of humanity's thoughts and dreams
of tarnishing wealth and the easy flow of oily satiety
to wisdom's ruby glimmer beckoning from beyond arm's reach

Let us find each other's hand beneath this pearlescent swirl
and with unembarrassed smile embrace the undeserved gift 
until our own be severed so we may as unselfishly unleash
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