“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 wish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wish. Show all posts
Monday, February 11, 2019
Homo-stasis
Let me be beautiful-
but not so much so that it makes me
ugly to others.
Let me know more
than everyone else,
but not so much
that I am to blame
(for everything).
Let me be plugged in
but not all the time,
because it weakens the
battery.
Let me love water
but not so much
I drown myself
for want of it.
Let me take in all
the air,
more than enough
to hold inside.
Let me read every word
that means something
to someone,
let me hear
all the wisdom
that may be
profound.
Let me love.
Let me live.
Let me love life
but not so much
I fear death
for the love of
wanting it.
Painting by Matthias Stom [CC0], 'Old Woman Praying' c. 1630's-40's in Public Domain.
Friday, March 24, 2017
Moving her lips
Distracted by a flicker, brutishly I burrowed
under the thickset arboreal pathway, forward through,
not needing a Virgil
Whereby, I found myself subdued and lowered
my angel body, knelt upon the gathering scrag,
with knees upon the well curb, my two soles
Watching my back, I feel the frosty shade
Safer now, I may close my shamed eyes
And I know why others have come too.
I reach right into my hip pocket,
making a tiny discomfit chime,
half-expecting the birds to flap.
I take out the three pennies
used for the i-Ching,
fingering the Nineteen eighty-four first,
it sits in the color of old adobe
streaked in rain grime.
I toss it into the blackness that is not
Empty nor dry
and I wait, waiting, listening, breathing,
hearing nothing...
The next one picks up the red in the sun and
glows facing its prospect of good conduct-
Two thousand and one
sided History, the honest man does not smile
I let it go as impersonal,
It falls quickly
I lean in
this time
and I don’t hear it hit
gulping back it was swallowed hole.
I never wished.
The last one left, I save for a
second thought, more
about splashless wishes
for Change.
Painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Close your eyes and blow
Close your eyes and blow
Your wish is my command
The voice would
Beam.
Thy Will Be Done-
would be added
for reassurance and
-brace yourself-here is where
CHANCE (in mighty fine print)
stands
smalland(wedged)
b/w Now and When
what you want(ed)
blows up
to the surface, swerving
amongst chandelier blades
whipping cream
making a breeze
Come and Go around again,
Like karmatic vengance which has
been like you, doing like that
never this now
never this same alike (and again)
selfsame
as wishing thy will
Be come
some one
over there
who Will want
every thing you have
right Now-
for wishes, all ways
(taken for)
granted.
The voice would
Beam.
Thy Will Be Done-
would be added
for reassurance and
-brace yourself-here is where
CHANCE (in mighty fine print)
stands
smalland(wedged)
b/w Now and When
what you want(ed)
blows up
to the surface, swerving
amongst chandelier blades
whipping cream
making a breeze
Come and Go around again,
Like karmatic vengance which has
been like you, doing like that
never this now
never this same alike (and again)
selfsame
as wishing thy will
Be come
some one
over there
who Will want
every thing you have
right Now-
for wishes, all ways
(taken for)
granted.
Image by Marjory Collins of Dionne quintuplets, 1940 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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