Showing posts with label T.S. Eliot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T.S. Eliot. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

1922: Introducing Mr. T. S. E. Gibbous, Esq.

Ambivalent egg- 
Head way out there, suspended 
 
In your inner sanctum, why so 
Tilting brightly? One might wonder, 
 
Somewhat nonsensically, of course, 
You might be reflecting 
 
On the light that’s not 
Yours to begin with, and how 
 
Your bang-up saga might end— 
Sunny side up or scrambled 
 
With heady green cheese and deviled 
Portions of furtive darkling whimpers soon 
 
To be wasting away in a mooning 
Sea of sublimated tranquility.
 
 

 

Monday, May 2, 2022

Stetson, Il Miglior Fabricator

Easy does it, 
My discerning amigo— 
Don’t you dare think that 
 
Once you get the hang of it, 
You’re free to stick another feather 
In your hat and straightaway
 
Hang it up—methinks you must 
First learn the difference between 
A fedora and a terza rima, 
 
What make you of that?

 

Thursday, June 11, 2020

A Poem Should Be (20)


By all means metaphysical 
And metaphorical yes, 

We know but how 

Can it be when 
The poet is elsewhere? 


Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Closing In On The Poet's Elusive Objective Correlative


Moving deep 
Cross the depths 
Of your medium 

Like a crustacean, never 
Go straight to where- 
Ever it is 

You are heading—be 
It forwards or 
Back—being oblique in 

Your every movement, 
Take in as much as you can 
While doing so—this 

Will get you there sooner 
Or later, your pincers at last in 
Position to strike side- 

Long straight at the heart 
Of the scuttling always
Suspect subject matter, 

Leaving you free 
To break through 
To the untroubled

Surface for air. 


Thursday, August 23, 2012

Building for the Future: One Less Vacant Lot


At this point, I don’t know 

What is more edifying—looking 
At photos of the World Trade Center 
Before and after 9/11 or reading 
Eliot’s Wasteland for the nth time— 

Any way you look at it, 
It looks like we’re long past 
The point of no return 
On our investment. 


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