Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Empathetic Interior Landscape

 

Deep down 

 

In the terrified heart, 

Suffering festers and hides, 

 

And everybody wants it 

Ripped out and out 

 

Into the open without wounding 

The innocent beast 

 

Cowering inside. 

 

 

Monday, October 5, 2020

Real Heavy Stuff, This Gardening

 

Another morning out here well- 

Spent watching drunken bees staggering 

 

From one pollen-filled flower 

To the other while inside I bet 

 

You’re wondering again how it is 

I’m always stupefied from taking all this in 

 

In what might pass as a stupor 

Yet clearly mistaken 

 

Light. 

 

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Tongue In Cheek, The Poet Addresses His Other Self

 

Janus, so many poems

 

I know you know 

It would take me two 

Lifetimes to share 

Them all with you— 

 

So forgive me 

If I end up choosing 

Only the choicest few— 

 

On the other hand, I’m sure 

It’ll come as no surprise 

They’re all about 

 

My reluctance to chew 

And spit out—what else?— 

 

A most vexing attachment

To a double-faced you. 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Seizing The Day (Phoenix In Distress)

 

Disoriented by shining

 

Myriad stars, rise from

Under such dizzying array

To the occasion:

 

Do not

Wait to see some fabled

Celestial body falling

 

To make a wish you

Hope complements

This very day, burn it

 

To ashes straightaway.

 

 

 

Friday, September 18, 2020

The First And Last Time I Knew I Wanted To Be A Poet


 “At ease disease, there’s a fungus among us.” 

---childhood taunt of the 1950s in the USA

 

 

It must have been when I was still—

As they say—wet behind the ears and thought

 

It was something I could do every day

And still look at myself

 

In the mirror without turning away, how

Could I know then

 

What I sense at last is true now?

Poetry remains

 

A lingering disease

That once takes root

 

In the budding brain,

Never knows well

 

Enough to stop sprouting

Wings and dares

 

Fly away.

 

 

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