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 Apr 2019 Brother Jimmy
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I don’t play golf to shoot a low score.
Sweating, frustrated, cursing, never quite happy
I play golf to lose ***** in the woods.
Then getting lost trying to find them.
The car is parked in the driveway
The keys hang loose in my hand
My forehead is pressed
Against the steering wheel.

Failure.
A word sticky on the lips
Like cheap lipstick,
But it stays like stain.
Blanket of poetry
Shelters all
Be not coy to clamber
The semantic wall
Like a drop of dew
Indigenous insights brew
In lonely and dark places
The star-studded skies
Carpet of evidence.
The Central for a change of scenery
because it's Wednesday and
where have you been?

There's not much to see.
there's not much of me,
it feels like I'm fading away,

because it's Wednesday?

that may be the case and in case
that is so
tomorrow I'll go by bus.

I never think because I think I've
no need too
which sounds like thinking he thinks to
himself.

Shuffling the stakes is all that it takes,

workman with Walkman,
the music is muffled,

because it's Wednesday?

I'm already worn out and I haven't got out from the tube,
I might just stay on and see where i end up.
Pradip is newborn (impossible wisdom)

“a new day, a new chance for my soul... to heed
a small voice ... to give flowers, to plant new seeds.
to not trample on wildflowers and unwanted weeds...” Sally

“Sweet baby
with your head on my shoulder
I'm no more growing older...” Pradip

~

the unpredictability and randomness of the winds,
seed carriers, of small voices, yearning to be heard,
powerless in appearance only, for within are powers superior heroic,
           who can grow others       who can feed    
                             who can sustain multiple living creatures

each seed unique, a poem composed and complete,
authored by precedents, authorized by predecessors,
utilizing the cocoon of soil and sun,
rainwater from space and deep driven to
the clear milk of underground railroad rivers,
to give nurture to its revisional generational code

these new children of an old mix,
are quiet lifesavers giving proofs positive,
that those who will one day grow old,
with deep gnarled roots, are most capable
of finding ways of manufacturing fresh youth whim within,
to those who give babies homage, in attendance

this then the newborn miracle, the new seed,
wind borne, replants itself in old soil,
taking but more so giving,
injecting bits of vitality into its arterial ancestry,
how can this be?


I do not know the why or the how,
but am evidence of the therefore,
and the thereafter, of impossible wisdom




7:07am 4-5-19 a newborn poem for poetry passing grandparents
the dawn here is hours behind their sunsets, this then, a refreshment for the
wisdoms of their evening prayers
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