Glass press, to face and chest;
Bless the fresh new faces met,
Lest pleasant stings, with thoughtful crests
Of white breasted shores, drive thee to bet.
Wander old reminiscent highways,
Find blessed staring people there
Enjoying timid byways
With bronze and gorgon hair.
A mare lunar darkness
Dribbles from their glaring sight;
These good people with blue starkness
Emanating from their pupil light.
I see them now with faces, freshest faces
All anew; the thoughtful ones cry naked,
The new ones sigh to you.
Jun 7, 2014
Jun 7, 2014 at 3:36 PM UTC
I am a moment captured at the bottom of a glass.
I am the tempered mellow gold there sinking as sand
As the sun d’scends.
I am the fomenting film rippling ‘round the edges
Of tap’ring bubble gases amassing and trapped there
As the ice melts.
Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 11:20 PM UTC
Death, O’ you all consuming notion:
Idea; intractable, implacable void.
As you are I see not clearly yet
I see a life made up of the stuff of myth.
With the narrow thinking of a man—
Achaean footsoldiers marching to glory—
I ponder your immensity, think
Not too clearly for the sake of sanity,
Because in fact I can think no more clearly.
For your sake, I say, I have wandered.
I have traveled dust and roads that stretch lifetimes
And that capture moments fleeting in
From great dusty horizons beyond the brink.
The dust, I think, I speak of last,
The road I speak of first.
Yet in no particular order is life
So constrained; nor, by consequence, is death.
Yet O’, to you, I give my all,
My heart, my fear, anguish and pain, I give all to you,
If only to supplicate you at the knees, say
“I am not ready yet, do not rip up the void.”
Yet O’, do you laugh, and you do,
And a pity it is that I be at your knees,
For you are a wand’ring, indiscriminate beast,
And you take life as you may please.
Raise an auspicious eye to the venerable shape.
His head is there, but hollow eyes
Do make up the void of his sight.
And a sinister look is there.
Raise an auspicious eye to the undark’ned mirror;
The eyes show a deep glist’ning light,
From deepest and remotest corners,
Where life is not that way.
May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 5:29 PM UTC
Dare I, I ask,
Place light there‘pon
The glare of eyes?
Dare I disturb?
Dare I, remote,
Make time for life,
No absence moaped?
Dare I define
And be r’fined?
Timidity
Not be for me?
Dare I select
Many a dress
All for brides
Who count down time?
Dare I, dare cough
Within your cup?
Dare I, dare kiss
The tender cheek?
Dare I, for sickness
And for health,
Put off the flames
Of blithering?
May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 9:34 PM UTC
It were perhaps too good to preen,
This thing, this much elided stream,
To rest therewith, tremulous ream
Of thoughts forthwith from misery.
Let not the beggar hear my words:
There is no hope in timely dress;
World it cares not for men deferred
From caring press and relatives.
Too much it cares for common things,
A word said soft, need not for pain,
Yet broken in its gleaning thoughts,
Suff’ring not well deserved stains.
These things, I say, they cast a sea
Before dim eyes, make blind men cry,
Rob their sight, ev’n in sight’s drought;
This I say, casts little more t’me.
May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 7:26 PM UTC
Love is like a moonlit tide,
Soft, sinuous, deep, and wide.
Wild torrential currents hide
‘Neath her pretty glistering eyes.
Love is like a battering flight,
Of angels ‘scending through the night,
Ascended me soft spoken plight,
Deceptive in their glow’ring might.
Love is like a blackened stove,
Not heeding ash nor threat of Jove
Who spoke to Vulcan in his dome,
“Make me spears to light up Rome.”
Love is like a tabletop,
Concealed so that remaining slop
From greedy children faces mop
Away not to be seen a drop.
Love is like a poor man’s show,
In Italy as we all well know,
Where the beggars drop their load
Into the ******* *** and po.
Love is like a newborn child,
So innocent, meek, so mild,
Yet all p’tential for hate and vile,
Love is like a newborn child.
Love is like a stupid man,
Who heeds not life nor past, the hand
Been dealt as many times to count,
Love is like a stupid man.
Love is like a silly woman,
Thinking herself better off in ruin,
Having dealt too much and little felt,
Love is like a silly woman.
Love is like a stormy sky,
That in its fury seeks to cry,
To drop the drops of spring again,
And flower life about the land.
Love is like a simple thing,
So honestly in her degree
She speaks of things so tenderly;
Love is such a simple thing.
May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 11:51 PM UTC
A fool I say, this is a fool I see.
A fool staring, he knowing all he sees;
Eyes beholding immensity,
Perishing.
He grasps the fundamental things,
The first things, the primal things;
Primordial shape of egg, this shell
He sees, he the shape knows all too well.
Flittering here and there the chime
Of interfering patterns of light,
He measures with his instruments.
This he grasps and knows them all too well,
Knows the shape he sees, that basic
All to tell; he shapes the mirror
Images and breaks up all the chimes;
He knows it now, so basic now
It moves in sinuous abstractness,
So dull and so plain.
May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 11:07 PM UTC
I sat with you upon the lawn.
It was a marvelous day, you do remember?
There was so much good for us t’fawn
So much life for us to squander.
Yet a moment is brief, and life still shorter,
We had not time to wait upon us.
The sun was already falling, and the day
Must come to an end.
May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 6:36 PM UTC
O' life, 'tis best that you speak not thy thoughts too quickly,
And you do.
May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 2:37 PM UTC
Sing, beloved, blessed, with boldness!
Sing to the causes of life and love,
Sing to the hoary stars above;
Such grace to bestow our promise!
Not without misery, pain, or woe,
Sing to the blackness and make it unso!
Sing to the absence of memory, time,
Sing to the love, the rhythm, the rhyme!
Sing, my beloved, to countless regrets;
Sing to the face of cold harbor chills;
Sing beneath arbors of turbulent skies;
Sing above witness, without claim distilled!
Sing to the freedom, that which we find,
Kept off and distant, no notion of time,
No more hubristic than a solemn man’s rhyme,
No more than a mystic foretelling sublime.
Sing above apathy, sing above pain,
Sing beneath empathy, lowly with shame,
Sing at the level of the beggar and call
That solitary banter which draws us all.
May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 2:22 PM UTC