Know this,
Callous one—
Your next poem knows you so
Well it’s ready to read
Your mind and write it
Just for you.
Be thankful just this once
And show it—
Learn it by heart, too.
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Curtains In Cosmopolitan Santorini
What a buzz, folks!
The winning entry in this year’s Aegean
Art Imitating Nature category is. . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . .Ms Phyllophila Ephemera’s totally
Captivating and stunningly uncommon
Recherché design depicting congeries
Of local Musca domestica strikingly executed
On an arresting white background!
Monday, January 23, 2023
Soundbite In The Dead Of Winter
A rose
I know Gertrude
Needed it
Said four times but
Nonetheless this deep
Is a rose
Red one by it-
Self in
A wide-mouthed shining sky-
Blue vase on my desk plainly
Is a rose
Doesn’t need her repeating
Herself one bit.
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Saturday, January 21, 2023
Stoic Poetic Law Of Diminishing Returns
A Greek poet* and very
Accomplished one at that,
Once said poetry is
Rooted in the human breath,
And added—as an afterthought,
Probably—what would we do if
That breath should ever diminish?
And in the same spirit elsewhere,
Quoted another poet, a German**
Well on his way to Elysium,
Who asked what is the use
Of poets in a mean-spirited time?
I don’t know
About you but as one
Who has accomplished precious
Little in a vast field overrun
By well-meaning but unfortunate
Unacknowledged go-getters
Sinking in despair, I think
We could all use a well-earned
Breather and leave it at that,
Buoyant and resting at last
In those fertile, mythic, ever green
Grasses waiting cross the river,
The slightest distance just
Over there.
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