Poet Jake Montgomery knows the power of the mind, the power of perception. He explores these concepts by focusing on and using wordplay with inanimate objects like rocks and minerals, fool’s gold, so to speak. Montgomery is a young, emerging poet and we here at the LYRICAL hope to hear more from him in the years to come.

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Mind Over Metal

The power said to be set in stones
Is not-set in stone,
It is set in the mind alone.
If you believe, what you perceive
Your perceptions form your reality–
in actuality.

Rocks and minerals effects are minimal
unless one makes the matters pivotal.
Gold, one of the most valued
Its conduction rarely skewed
A golden lie–
rarely viewed.

The reason why
such power lies
within an inert metal–
why people are so unsettled
well, remember…

It’s mind over metal.

– Jake Montgomery

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