Sun Dance, by Neil Creighton

Blue Poles (Untitled 11, 1952), by Jackson Pollock (USA), 1952.

Sun Dance

If only I could 
throw words 
onto the page
like Jackson Pollock 
threw paint onto the canvas,
a kind of divine anarchy,
beautiful chaos
celebrating nothing 
but itself,
iridescent,
dripping molten stalactites
in flouro red, orange and green
descending
over the primordial world
aeons before 
the red blaze cooled
and life emerged,
slowly,
laboriously,
from the cobalt blue.

Neil Creighton

This poem was originally published at One Sentence Poems.

Neil Creighton is an Australian poet with a passion for social justice and a love of the natural world. Recent publications include Poetry Quarterly, Silver Birch Press, Praxis Online, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Verse-Virtual, where he is a contributing editor. His poetry blog is windofflowers.blogspot.com.au

Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, 1950, photography by Hans Namuth (USA, b. Germany), 1950.