“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Showing posts with label place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label place. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2020
Continuities
Please consider this
an invitation for you
to take a small step
with me
here
into a warm pool
of self-reflection
with its coincidences
and resemblances
to the things we
can touch
that may also touch us back
for the same reason
or terrify
by
sheer proximity of skin.
It feels blurry when fully
immersed
here
because this liquid is so much
thicker than blood,
immortal and color-less
in order
to not conceal its particulates
as deposited into your banks
of experience.
It all comes together
like light,
gravity, family and an image,
for a moment.
This shape
water takes
the pathways
as they mimic the way of wind
taking the open path
along, long, way around
an obstacle that doubled
itself as a ladder.
Without braces and right angles,
there are no straight lines or perfect circles
to be found or measured
here.
We may picture
perfection but cannot describe
or swallow it without losing
our senses
of things.
In between
breaks of concentration
the glass spiders
but it is held together
in its frame
since there was no place
to remain
the same
as the way we found.
Let us both observe
how much further,
the way you have held yourself back,
the way you left yourself
so easily open to suggestions
such as novelties as in
the word and first-mover
who made us-
stand up
while the mirror-image stayed
observant and seated
in place.
See,
that was not you
there
sinking in,
drinking in, thinking in
collected bodies capable
of lucid dreaming
without ever remembering
if we should have
broken the surface.
Photo credited by Jon Sullivan, 'Ashes on the Reflecting Pool' dated February 2013.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Blue faces of things
On that very day,
in another Place,
it was more than
a later hour-
the heavy things
balancing on edges
would finally come down
creating a gentle breeze
over Here
and the nose would pick-up
and strong sense of Elsewhere,
only meaning
there was Poetry
being read in corners.
From the lips,
this music dips between
inkling and imagination
like a murmuration,
how things gather in ceremony
for harmony's sake.
And yet,
all the anonymity allowed
a tiny voice
to move through
this heavy Time,
passing on the thought of
levitation and how it was
never up to us
to do anything about the
thinning air out There.
Painting by Harriet Backer (1845-1932), c. 1883, in Public Domain.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
A sense of place
There was this song I have never heard
but its rhythms told my body that we've danced before.
In the yellow sunrise, the old farmhouse glows
like a candle in the road and looks as though I've lived there before.
The side door, if I remember, is unlocked.
The old woman that peddles vegetables every day in her blue bin on a bicycle,
I've never seen her before, but I bought some more Romas anyway.
Tulips in the garden are breaking their silence, like the mockingbird
the chorus, the words, I've heard anteriorly in this same spot before.
I thought by now I'd be pining for the giant hewn tree,
the shade it once made-but the roses are blooming,
and I'm left feeling stumped.
The grass is greener.
The new postman, who sometimes rings twice
because he forgets where he is at,
delivered a package for me down the street.
A neighbor I had never met brought it over to me,
like long lost friends, it was good to see both of them.
At home, I have house-guests
I rarely see.
Teenagers, some call them.
Outside, I feel out of place.
Inside, I feel too big in my own space.
Today, I picked up a peculiar novel
idea, and went with it.
Image By Yinan Chen (www.goodfreephotos.com (gallery, image)) [Public Domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Corners @ 90°
She did not do it for being right or to
skew hindsight with foresight.
She was just learning
to look at it with new eyes too.
By liberally applying divine
Rules of architecture to structures
We discover limits
Hover in the rafters
Broken beams, pride paid the bills,
Support came in pillars, mortared with guilt
No doors were hinged on labors of love-
but all things settle down, inevitably.
It was working, building
And making
New sense
Of our life in boxes and wreck-tangles.
Painting by Antonio Pérez de Aguilar – Painter, c. 1769 in the Museo Nacional de Arte [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Painting by Antonio Pérez de Aguilar – Painter, c. 1769 in the Museo Nacional de Arte [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Implement(ation) (misc. Haiku from Journal v.3, 2016)
Self identifies
by letters strung together
make names from scratch(es).
//
Write with felt marker
in the morning; it will be
pencil by nightfall.
________________________________
Butterfly and moth
are one chrysalis away
by color of death.
±
Naiveté is
a bumble bee whose life
is heavy with lust.
☼
Territory, as
a place you feel most at home
outside of yourself.
♦
Enough already
the tallest trees drink slowly
take in the new air...
↑
Photograph By ZachT (Own work) Bernese Alps in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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