Today we either suffer inside or draw back from the river Nile it hits
inside there's a vault that protects each member with cool written waters
on a slate of stone we remove the pillars of last bent toward establishment
those of the powers that be stand up amidst the lone tropics to peer
embraced to melting snow with a splash of lavender in case

We all could learn from each other that's the blessing of writing as you go.
Prime time for rehearsal getting caught in the middle perfect melody
Poet to poetry trying to stay ahead of me
"Ingredients:

suitcases
photo albums
quick wit", these words are a blessing by which to partake learned so much thank you.

using a few different literary devises with a cooking recipe and metaphysics.
Fun read. I can't really make any comments. The work is well self-contained.
It could work just as well on the clever satire page in the New Yorker every week.
I think its really very clever, very creative and fun to read. It is great creative writing.

I don't really consider it poetry though. I put up some structure to define what poetry is (to me) because if everything written in any form or style is a poem because someone calls poetry, then its all fake news. A poem needs some relationship to music, sound, image, rhyme, metaphor, and all the rest, for it to qualify for me.

and the time it took to put them together. Thank you for taking my comment as I meant it, it was of course never meant to be insulting in any way, as some writers would take offense. Like who am I to tell anyone else what poetry is. That's why I always emphasize when I make such comments I realize it is MY opinion, and try to suggest why.
I think today it is important for all poets to at one point consider what poetry is, in a broad sense, and define some parameters. Like art has painting, charcoals, and watercolors etc , we have everything from lyrics, limericks, hallmark cards, psalms, and on and on. It's all "poetry" in some form. Kovacs certainly makes some good basic points to me. So many great poets have their poetics and ars poeticas; I am drawn to Paul Valery to describe it next to prose. Prose walks from A-B. It has a destination. Poetry does not walk, it dances with itself.
To me the most important aspect is that of "charged language". Of some attempt in the poem to use language in metaphor. A poetic truth comes out of image and associations of words not normally placed together, it creates an excitement in the brain. That's not to suggest "chocolate octopus" is poetry because it sounds like a musical wording with abstract interpretation. But to take a famous villanelle "do not go gentle into that good night"...why is the night good? It reaches deep in us with a poetic truth. This aspect of poetry goes back to Aristotle in the poetics.
The second is sound. Taking the same quote..the sound of those words with the alliteration of the "g", the pace of the words. This is not common speech, it is music.

All the arts suffer today from experimentation for its own sake.
Poetry has fared poorly in the current literary world because it has so alienated most readers who read a current poem and don't have a clue what the poem is about. We cannot go backward, but we do need to respect the tenants of poetry that have made it last and be relevant for centuries. Some form and content a reader can read aloud and have it move him, make him laugh or cry. In some respects, you can say as well when poetry is put in front of you, you just know it is what it is.
Rap and performance is a type of poetry. It's a bit too puerile, obvious, not imagist,
sing-songy, transparent for me, but I love the fact that it is a poetic form that the young public loves and it's out of the hands of the abstractionists who edit Poetry and teach Pound and Wallace Stevens before Billy Collins or Mary Oliver in college. You don't start opera with Wagner, you start with Verdi. I suspect this great interest in rap styles will ultimately evolve into a true form of modern American poetics....I'm so waiting!
Forgive me, I digress. It is clear you are a poet, and I look forward to reading your works.