“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Friday, April 27, 2018
A certain ring
Not only is my smartphone listening
to every word
there is the Universe
(which must receive so many messages
the black box is always full)
-proof-
of echoes, ripples, whole
motes of dust
in Brownian motion
waving.
I mentioned the name as it came to me.
My daughter likes the little names
I give other peoples pets.
A name that starts with a B
she says to me-
Baxter
Baxter! The woman calls
yanking the leash,
C'mon, she pleads.
Of course much has changed besides
my voice, my tone, my hair, my skin,
and I need to start over-
and I need a wage
when
a dear old friend calls me out of the
grey,
to catch up, to ask a favor, to present
an opportunity.
Meanwhile, my daughter and I attend a lecture,
I worry she will be bored, get lost in the
terminology,
so I compare thee
Nobel to Oscar
at the Academies
There the man of the hour,
Professor, Author, Scientist, Poet, mentor
mentions the film industry
as an analogy
Have you ever seen a one-man show?
You know
somewhere, someone
is listening
to a podcast, to music, to poetry, to birds,
to the running water
for a sign of life.
The signal dissipates
not hitting any home.
Evidently-
the Universe reads our clouds.
Painting by Sophie Anderson (1823-1903), 'Birdsong' in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Never a need to wonder
Like a nickel found
behind your ear
it happened so fast
nobody noticed how
it got to where
there was
never a need to wonder
anymore
about any thing.
More than a sleight of handy
to always have the answers
in your pocket,
where change used to go-
you know
billfolds and money clips
(now it's all just strips and chips)...
Tho' for what it's worth
I bet
we all still like to stash some cash-
like philosophic questions
often posed as origami
or in amor plait fati, ah yes-
currency well spent
now
we know,
with nary a query
that goes unsolved.
Yet the soul enigma remains-
have we evolved?
And now
I wonder-
what my smartphone would say.
Image of Don Adams by General Artists Corporation-GAC-management. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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