“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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Monday, July 20, 2020
I am-phibian
A line in the sky
caught my eye
the barbed hook
of crescent moon
took no time
pulling my chin up
and out
of my element
and taking my breath
outside
the warm body
weightless
I can only wait
for lightness
to break
through
a comforting zone
at terminal velocity
relevant
only to the speed of
dreams and nightmares
piercing through
this illusion
of you
waking up
or falling down
but always catching
a peek
under the surface.
Painting by Lionel Walden, 'Twilight, Evening Star and Crescent Moon' c. 1925 in Public domain.
Monday, April 29, 2019
Whyte light
Lean out,
breathe in.
Step off,
take it in.
You will fly
they praise.
My wings must be wet.
Whyte, white light
from acme to abyss
this mountainous
poet dragon
echoed across
my blood river valleys
and Up
I aimed a gaze.
My eyes-directing
my eyes where I wished-
Like the flower
happy to bloom,
in bloom
noticing the ever-changing
view.
Left with these notions
what must come down?
Come down
what must,
what must...
Painting by Thomas Moran, 'Mountain of the Holy Cross', c. 1890 in [Public domain].
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Formicidae
In moments that require us to stay
put,
against or free will,
tortiously, we may see some relief
in the focus
on a leaf or insects, say
the way
ants seem so purposeful
about their busyness since
distraction eases the
due process-
But then
it doesn't take long for us to
jump in,
and kill it,
this one
Stopped
his trailblazing,
his dead friend lie underfoot,
for a moment
he wondered why,
I could see it-
Anyway, I am moved
by this
and he proceeds to collect
his dead
taking him somewhere
I wonder why
it matters so much,
this weight to bear
the same as when I carried
mine
into their graves,
one realizes in
tense moments
the weight is the same
and ending in a tie
or twist of genes,
neither of us will
come out alive.
Image credited by Lubbock, John [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Ebb tide
Tragic are those lingering losses,
comic are the erratic gains
all rippled with guilt
as if others saw
perception seemed worth its weight
to carry with us
all life, blending together in summation,
sometimes synchrony, although
in our exclusion
atonement is a single strike,
a note that takes its sound
along with others,
once more
the chorus comes-
laughter snaps like light limbs
which dam up
the tear ducts
for a time,
like ours when passage
was most important
and our structures remain
sound against the wait of all things
pushed to sea.
Painting by James Whitelaw Hamilton c. 1896 housed in the Yale Center for British Art [Public domain].
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Galileo's Hearts
The hours carrying over one heart beat
to the next
which only make echoes of now and forever.
This crude hammer-
ceaseless-does not heal but molds to fit
soundness through all narrow passages
pushing breath aside.
This welcome breeze washes over
hot cheeks
with smile,
injecting light
where darkness filled up silence with stories.
There was once a time
when it was easier said than done.
Flutters and leap seconds could be folded
and kept muffled
in between a steady place
and were bound by revolutions
mistaken for revelations.
Now, as predicted
none looked further than necessary
and overall, it was universally agreed,
inevitably
the shifting weight
would crush us completely
while the drum rolls on.
Painting by Arthur Hughes [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Bide and bide
Patience was a problem
he was working on
And so: Nothing Doing about it
All's well that ends in a day.
Around the bend danger awaits,
there was no other way out.
Asking about contents and swatches
make a myriad of answers juxtapose and
work without reason.
I still stand-awaiting your reply.
His hyper heart, the others tainted blood, the ill-tuned organs, the laced food, the zombie pills, the (mixed) media/ (missed) messages, the dumb distractions, the deafening volume, the vast emptiness, the toxic air, the yellow water, the rush, the summit, the plummet-----
Do it NOW!
That is-jump-the wait is too great to hold onto for longer than patience holds peace.
Later-it will be too late to learn of love
and its heroic acts that fail to think
before giving up
the weight
was over.
Painting By Gordon Coutts (1869 - 1937) – creator Born in Glasgow, Scotland. Dead in San Francisco, California, United States of America [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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