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many dimensions
are loved --
words in a world wind







~
a direct response to Christos Rigakos
post lobotomy,
my friend's blank stare
freezes me
 Oct 2012 Christos Rigakos
mads
I took you to the edge,
hand in hand
one last time.

It's funny how
the weather always
knew the mood.

There was so much rain,
so much pain.

"I've always wanted to fly..."
You pulled your hand away
I crouched too close to the edge,

"If you jump...
you won't fly.
You'll just be falling."
I've never seen a face
so blank, so indifferent.

"I wouldn't be breaking a trend,
I've been falling,  my whole life."

I stood, wiping hair from your face,
kissed you once
and then grew wings.
Another dream.
climb to the top of the mountain with me

into the fog that surrounds what we see

we'll become rain and fall from the sky

and come back as us every time

the flesh underneath both of our skin

will harbor the journeys we travelled within 

let's draw on our bodies a world of our own

one in which we have turned every stone
Don't walk,
protected
by shadows
wearing masks,  
                         when streaming light,
                         gleaming sword drawn,
                         comes to annihilate,
                                                     ­     evil shadows
                                                         ­ with vengeance;
                                                      ­                               *where would you hide?
You faded so quickly,
Away from me,
Then you rose so swiftly,
Right back to me.

My night was frigid,
So long, so dark,
At moments, livid,
What a lonely lark.

My stars gave me warmth,
As I flew past them,
Only lukewarm,
Your glistening gem.

All that glistened,
Were my tears,
In the stars who listened,
In their ears,
My fears.

Will he rise once more?
Will he not illumine me once more?
Will he own me no more?
Will he replace me?

As my tears fell,
One by one,
They glistened brighter,
One by one,
I saw your light,
One by one,
My tears stopped,
One by one,
You dried them away,
One by one,
And here we are,
In your light,
I shine,
Most bright,
One by one,
Face to face,
We are one.
frog headstand
on a thawing pond--
bubbles gurgle up














/
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, as per wikipedia, "The best-known Japanese haiku is Bashō's "old pond":
古池や蛙飛込む水の音
ふるいけやかわずとびこむみずのおと (transliterated into 17 hiragana)

This separates into syllables (on) as:

fu-ru-i-ke ya (5)
ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu (7)
mi-zu no o-to (5)
Translated:

old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound
traffic jam--
Bob Marley lets us
say hello
 Oct 2012 Christos Rigakos
mads
But darling,
                    There's no need for such mutilation;
                a heart is lovely but one cannot love
             just a small piece of rythmic flesh
          torn from a person.
       The whole being
    must be loved.

There is no blood to be spilt,
only blood to water roses.
The night sky of sleep
was ebulliently psychedelic,
specs of colors, yellow, brown, red,
created an ancient language
that spoke, secrets of a forbidden past,

The helicopter crept through,
the sky, tearing the canopy
of lights momentarily,
landed on a high rise apartment of dreams.

                                Now, after all these years,
difficult to remember,
who lives where;
aren't we somnambulists,
without navigational aids?

I would suddenly wake up
from one dream
                             within another -

soft touches of tender fingers,
sweet whispers in my ears,
soft light spreading its palm on an exposed shapely breast,
                                                         ­         I'll sense a disquiet,
a sigh, the pangs of a weeping heart, incidental results of
a life of passion, strife and agitation,
getting ****** by currents,
diving deep in to swirling waters
                                                          ­    

                                                           ­     In a dream, a young woman,
                                                          ­      standing on a podium, in a class room,
                                                           ­     teachers in a trembling voice
                                                           ­     how to appreciate poems:
                                                          ­      "From beyond light years,
                                                          ­       comes our grief..."
                                                       ­         the scene dissolves in to mist.
                                      
                    ­                        silence!


I am an yellow moon,
she is the pale mist circling,
we are in an embrace, momentarily,
                                         in a dream
in the jeweled bed of the night sky.
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