“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 words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Femme
Lips for licking words
sweet and sour said to taste, tongue
buds roses and thorns.
Image of painting by Władysław Czachórski [Public domain], First Roses (1891) via Wikimedia Commons.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Vestigial Flexing
With these tiny words
trickling over my skin,
these pithy lines I draw and scratch,
in my head from tucked deep in bed,
in broad strokes that spasm and spark-
streaking in wisps that leave light trails,
I am comforted and swaddled
by my brittle skin that knows these
are the strands that connect my spirit
to its terminal boundaries.
This is how I speak to me.
I say to hear, I think to find
the same self, tucked in amid
its ways of saying untranslatable
and delectable daunting poetry.
The heavy blanket protects me from
exposure- you cannot see more
than the shape of naked, the outline
is enough for some, sameness...
There is That, This is I, There, There.
I've found just
in another beating heart
that echoes
Thou art That-
Art Thou That?
I wonder, I think
it is warm around you too...
I must be closer to your world in words
or I am sleeping tight inside definitions
sweet dreams, where these words want me
passionately and privately
for their own subversive desires...
I listen intensely and densely rapt-
catching any waves of sound
that may keep me afloat, on the
shiny surface of sonorous daylight
hours, too conscious to care
any more to day.
Image of painting by Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, Sleeping Girl, 1840 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Skipping on the Surface
It is obvious where matter changes
its collective being lies
somewhere on top, outside of itself
so we can see it, making it matter
At face level, on even ground
I brace my stance at the waters edge
smooth wafer stone in flesh palm
before hurling it-out there
I pause to picture its path, knowing
the ripples go nowhere but below
I can see closely the other shore
this is how I touch it from here
Someone else is always over there
and they say the same thing, mirroring my
in between, where the details gurgle
over boulders blocking fish roads
Some words don't sink
linger at their own reflection
and babble along, afloat
without direction or depth
The stone wrapped in hand
remembers its destiny, making
3 giant leaps before being cast
to the Other side
visibly mattering
just beneath the surface
smoothly skipping over
in stoic silence.
Image By SAMIN (Own work) [Public domain] of Armand River, via Wikimedia Commons.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Jog Lam
‘Tis not that I have
only little to say
(today)
my use of words
is the wrong way
my peeps aren’t worth a pop
my pennies are in pesos
Tho’ the flow
never ceases
the spring cannot unsprung
I dam it up
the words get too eager beaver
and my teeth stick out
(so I shut my mouth)
‘Tis loud in my head
the din always wins
despite nothing said
relentless ringing, chiming,
rambling and gambling
that silence will only
be truly mine
upon death-
I’m not in line for that
(yet)...
At times like these
‘tis my regret
to be resigned
to quietly waiting
with unwanted words,
the line I’m in
is not moving…
Image By Luther C. Goldman, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Saturday, September 19, 2015
DeLiberation
Disappear
is a simple enough
request of such a pret-ty little word.
is a simple enough
request of such a pret-ty little word.
Pass
this test
of strength without kil-ling
this too
Walk
it off, putting thoughts
in some order, neat-ly notice
all the lit-tle things
in the path
Above
Rise
Sleep
time taken
in an alternate real-ity
vacation and breath
Find
moments, like this
to feel
(me)
Charge
up, forward, through
the r-evolving gates of Dis
never
falling
behind
Time
to think
about things
like pret-ty lit-tle words
like
These.
Composed 9/9/15.
Image By Sonia Sevilla (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Pre-recorded: The following is not a Live poem
It's not like it used to be...
We used to dream about making robots
do our menial work, not our magical works-
those things only humans can do:
like cry, create
and ideate
ways to make life easier on us
less of us needed
participation nonessential.
(human auto-pilots)
A sweet serenade
became a re-mix, betwixt by
the sound, dubbed for deaf ears.
A vocal scale made smooth
by the synthesizer, equalizer
(humanizer).
An actor feels no butterflies
when he appears on the inside
of the idiot box,
he's no cracker jack.
Legs are not broken on blue-ray
slipped discs, but no risks.
It's bare (bones) entertainment.
Pictures say many things, it's said
about what is no longer true
they cut a slice of time, etched
on mirrored paper.
Once around
the fire, stories were told
yarns knitted
and lore was learned.
This was way before the plague
of plagiarism, words were invented
and tailored to suit.
Reproduce en mass,
a photo, a note, striking a chord
a player piano
knows your tune
pre-recorded originality
plays on repeated loops
serenading us
out of our own mortality.
“Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.”
-Virginia Woolf
Image By New York : Broadway Music Corp., publisher. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, sheet music cover.
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Collecting words from the bone pile
The Three Oddest Words
By Wislawa Szymborska
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold.
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold.
Translated by S. Baranczak & C. Cavanagh
Copyright © Wislawa Szymborska, S. Baranczak & C. Cavanagh,
Copyright © Wislawa Szymborska, S. Baranczak & C. Cavanagh,
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Italo Calvino on Quickness-
"Words, words that make me think. Because I am not devoted to aimless wandering, I'd rather say that I prefer to entrust myself to the straight line, in the hope that the line will continue into infinity, making me unreachable. I prefer to calculate at length the trajectory of my flight, expecting that I will be able to launch myself like an arrow and disappear over the horizon. Or else, if too many obstacles bar my way, to calculate the series of rectilinear segments that will lead me out of the labyrinth as quickly as possible."
Imagine words being
disembodied
from their inky chambers
in confinement
of a stroke on whim
Words set free from
the constriction
of definition
trapped
by convictions
Language as folk lore
posing as apparitions
opaque and outside
ourselves
a resemblance
While we wrestle with gravity
Here
Words are grappling with reality
Now
Set against
the woven fabric canvas
of our chance encounters
in perpetuity
strokes on a whim
I get the impression
of vibrant color on a white day
either way
A container to store ecstasy
dripping down
and running
to meaning
we para phrase
artfully appraise
Concentrate as you read
these words you may need
inside your head
with your minds i
while standing beside
ourselves
in
nirvana
projecting
maniacal mana
Leaning on clouds
we rely
on coming to a compromise
in order to see
shapes as symbols, like these
metaphors
thirsty for more
than thin air
An impression
a sense
of being
with words
we try to share
interchangeable
synonyms
thereby
invoking and provoking
a sense of continuity
An encyclopedic
orthopedic
selfsame essence
Words are the
people pith
that make-up
our masterful myth.
Image by Gerard de Lairesse, 1690 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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