Manic Adoration
written by: Scott Thomas Outlar
@17Numa
O God, I want to be overwhelmed
by something sweeter than
the sour grapes
of harvests past
by a symphony sung
from the lips of a choir
that has cast out all sirens
by a single shot
of adrenaline
not manufactured in a lab
O Lord, I wish to be consumed
by the maddened cry
that heralds laughter
beyond sorrow’s edge
by the howling scream
of a righteous wind
come fiercely
by the final plunge
into a vast expanse
promising vistas unparalleled
Scott Thomas Outlar is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. He now lives and writes in Frederick, Maryland. He is the author of seven books, and his work has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He guest-edited the Hope Anthology of Poetry from CultureCult Press as well as the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 Western Voices editions of Setu Mag. He has been a weekly contributor at Dissident Voice for the past eight years. Selections of his poetry have been translated into Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Cherokee, Dutch, French, Hindi, Italian, Kurdish, Malayalam, Persian, Serbian, and Spanish. More about Outlar's work can be found at 17Numa.
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