Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Un-Breaking


The young poet gazed at the ancient face
the Moon took no notice, although
she made an exception to the clouded night
and shone brightly to shred cover to gauze.

Inspired by the moon-showered night,
where the near orb suspends
against a sea of eternal jewels- the young poet
wrote small words that carried an enormity
-a moment that overwhelmed her breath.

Then she gathered- unbreaking her cut glass heart-
small notions and tinkling moon beams
to soothe the lonely syllables, and join them
on a string of boundless love

Friday, November 10, 2017

res publica


The pale and wantful look shook me from sleep,
the public incarnate, a troubled beast;
its needy and baleful sounds make me weep.

The deadly hunt in slow but ceaseless sweep
deceivers, caught by friends it feared the least;
the pale and wantful look shook me from sleep.

No sanctuary found, where shadows creep
beneath the cross, greed is still High Priest;
its needy and baleful sounds make me weep

In precious palms a destiny of truth to keep
an hopeful face to dawn’s crawl from the east
the pale and wantful look shook me from sleep.

Hidden on dark roof tops, a tragic leap
delivered to capture, hoist on falsities.
Its needy and baleful sounds make me weep.

In pitch it fell, a numb and blinded heap,
Aswirl in chaos, and mocked by foes at feast
the pale and wantful look shook me from sleep
Its needy and baleful sounds make me weep.

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Villanelle No. 23


Through distance, though you are far, far away
I hold you close in vivid memories
I smiled as I heard your laughter today

T’was a passing moment I’d wished would stay
The kind that lift spirit to peace and ease
Through distance, though you are far, far away

An image – my hand, sand, a windy day
As I fold to hold it, you watch me squeeze…
I smiled as I heard your laughter today

Like droplets of sunlight piercing the gray
Warm rise fills the eyes, so likely to please
Through distance, though you are far, far away

in mumbled sounds and soft touches, we pray
a certain gratitude to mysteries
I smiled as I heard your laughter today

As I let thoughts wander, and mind at play
Idly speak your name, and breathe wistfully
Through distance, though you are far, far away
I smiled as I heard your laughter today

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Sunset Balcony


 sunset balcony

She has many fascinating faces
Of daytime calm and night fire thaws.
I have learned to love their soft embraces,

When far-off gazes filled empty spaces,
on sunset balcony through cloudy gauze.
She has many fascinating faces

As beauty rises to her skin, my eye traces;
like sister moon, I find art in her flaws,
I have learned to love their soft embraces.

In moody shadows that her smile erases
the most fleeting happiness can pause
She has many fascinating faces.

No time for tears now, as laughter laces
my days, and the time seem greater for cause
I have learned to love; their soft embraces

Spark delight in spare or crowded places
or found in foggy calls and caws.
She has many fascinating faces,
I have learned to love their soft embraces.


Sunday, October 29, 2017

ciume

 You're the dream that i dream
while still awake, my reason to smile
and the risks that I take; you and the ways

you take my breath- a gleam that stays
to fight the darkness; when days fail
to meet the need, you are the promise-
the dawn that turns the world within to warmth
and a light, that guides us.

You are the sweetness that I keep
beneath my tongue, the little secret
of my knowing smile.
I confess to the most petty jealousy,
for i would steal the place...
of a water sip



Inspired by:  Medo de Amopr
Tom Jobim, lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes
 "ciume e o perfume do amor"

Thursday, October 19, 2017

TheRump of the joke


Turn of the year, Russia's gift
For America a political facelift
At the now far Righter House, grown stiff
Into a much Whiter House, it was as if-
someone turned on the spigot
unto a flow of infamous bigots.

Out - poured Breitbart and Bannon
Sessions and unknowns for secession
And the man from Kansas, for suppression
Ensure a snow-white ballot, and guns-
neither anti-black, nor Latino, he notes
unless they’d use the right to vote.

One woman said: white supremacist
Was like calling Smog a big mist

There’s no doubt, came from the horse’s mouth
And spread across the West and South
Spoken aloud and in code far and near
Wherever there be a lendable ear—
But then someone said no- he’s is not
No white supremacist, not a jot!

We are left, humbled and blind to stumble
Like the titan in Gaza so mistaken we mumbled
We had no idea- if he is not a white supremacist then
He must be wearing a deception, a brokered skin…

It is so shocking, the entire world taken suddenly aback--
For If not a white supremacist- then he must be Black!

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Authors of Confusion




Into my childhood ears, wisdom poured
From the lips that held the most precious breath
The voice that carried a wisdom from then unto then, and even now
The tones of truths held dear, re-echo, resound
Reappear as that which cannot be long hidden.

Time reaps and returns like the grasp of the seas
That take and keep all things- until returned to the light.
The proof of what was, and that it has ever been,
Held in deeps and keep of the ages, but never gone.

God is not the author of confusion…

In the mysteries of eternities,
there is clarity in the mind of a child;
purity lies in the warm heart of truth
as age turns the young green leaves to gold.
Honesty is abundant like the sun
free to fill the eyes of all that welcome warmth,
and  so too is choice--
the voice within that quietly submits
to the noisy world.

As time molds and shapes us
Like trees agreed with wind and rain
To stand thus; we yet fulfill
The fruits of seasons. The sweetness
Of the inner place can fall from its natural place
Of inherent reflection, a fallen grace, buried
Beneath a worldly gold, and thus
Inscribed, a soul lost in the midst of life.

Tossed in chaos; the inner strife divided
The mansion of many rooms dissolves
Unfound, among rumors of crows in a defiant fog.
Defiant, even unto the burning thaw of dawn. Reborn
Are they now, disciples of the Lost, and chain bound followers,
Dedications of the  authors of confusion.