AJ: Favorites

Sep 2015 AJ

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a flute,
A sarpint ran into his boot;
But he played daay and night,
Till the sarpint took flight,
And avoided that man with a flute.

Sep 2015 AJ

Fever Beads (To the Sound of Adults Talking)

Sep 2015 AJ

SG Holter

Fever Beads (To the Sound of Adults Talking)

She removed some clothes
So the hug would
Take.

The innocence was more intimate
Than ***.
Finally held, safe from enemies

On all fronts. I served my time
As a human shield,
If only

For seconds, as sharp claws
Let go and warm, caring hands
Didn't.

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I'll be summer sandbox for you.
You be child for a while;
Rest as only kids can;

Lulled and safe, drifting away
To the sound of adults talking
Softly

So you'll sleep, despite the fever.
Warm with sofa, blanket,
And *little.

Sep 2015 AJ

HOW I WRITE POETRY

Sep 2015 AJ

Mike Gullickson

HOW I WRITE POETRY

I dig a hole in myself
and fill it with words

Sep 2015 AJ

Dream Brother

Sep 2015 AJ

SG Holter

Dream Brother

For a Syrian boy.

Slipping away from desperate arms
Within salty, dark waters.
Familiar voices fade with distance and
Drown, as stars become
Blurs lulling you to sleep with their

Good night twinkle-twinkles.
Hands too small for any gun or
Grenade open up like little flowers
To a night no night-light ever could
Illuminate.

~

Where was God when you whimpered
In fear?
Swam an angel of light in the darkness
Down there in
The deep, with her comforting hand on
Your motionless shoulder?

Little Dream Brother.
Dreaming nightmares all meant
For another.
Asleep in the sand, with the ocean
Washing over.

The last two lines are from Jeff Buckley's song 'Dream Brother', on his legendary album 'Grace'.

Sep 2015 AJ

Sit with me in Silence

Sep 2015 AJ

SG Holter

Sit with me in Silence

Sit with me in silence.
Hold my hand with the hand
Of your mind.

I'll be your shadow; you be mine.
We'll rest in two dimensions.
Watch ourselves in 3D.

Safe in the warmth of
Our common intentions. A womb,
A room for you and me.

Let's communicate like mountains;
Be like solid, silent giants.
Sit with me in silence.

A river dug into purest stone after
Uncountable years reflecting
Sunlight, moonlight, stars and blue

Skies unrejecting. Dark clouds too,
In some divine alliance.

*And deep within it's deepest deep,
Two single, uncut diamonds.
Until we're ground to grains of sand,
Sit with me in silence.