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Lawrence Hall
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Seven Haiku for the Pleiades
The seventh poem – think of the Subaru badge – is not seen. That thoughtful poem is the one you will write.
1. Two Goddesses and a God Come to Visit
All in the same sky:
Luna, Venus, Jupiter
While the soft winds sigh
2. Barefoot in the Stilly Dawn
Barefoot in the grass
Eyes to the east, the stilly dawn
The stars have withdrawn
.
3. Dachshunds on Their Dawn Patrol
Every dachshund thinks
That she is a timber wolf -
Perhaps it is so
4. Summer Lingers
Yes, summer lingers
Crickets sing throughout the night
Their October hymns
5. A Prison Visit
The horizon has no meaning
If the prisoners look up -
Concertina wire
6. The Prayers of Planets and Stars
The planets and stars
Need not our prayers; they never sinned -
Do they pray for us?
Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021 at 9:25 PM UTC
when rhymes start poppin'
and beats start flowin'
it's probably a sign
that it's time to get going
maybe just maybe even
((( CAUSE A COMMOTION )))
Now
is the time
where the hero-self
starts bubbling up
which is the time to start stepping
stepping out of prison
and into presence
You'll know cause
it be all
effervescing like:
pop, pop, pop
as you turn around, have a see
look up and down
at the old me
and let me confess
I don't like what I used to be
at the same time
we should also admit
that we love that man-boy too
cause he was me and he was you
You see:
he was an egocentric
and a pretender
who was never ever ever gonna be a contender
and let's realize
that to linger to long
is how our past pulls us out of song
:::
refuse to lose that ******
now turn front and centre
leg go
and just
trust, trust, trust
Getting wide awake on these energies?
Let's ride these waves (if you please)
<now flow effortlessly
through gross machinations
until energies fizzle
and bond to the enormity
of post-structural Western conformity>
I figure it's time
to unsettle debts:
Consternation? Plebiation? Colonization?
What about Subjugation?
:::: THE ONLY WAY OUT ::::
:::: SEEMS TO BE WITHIN ::::
What's wrong with the world today
is that we are sleepwalkin'
<through a lucid dream
of our own creation
while considering
life as profane>
Unfurl your flag
let the mystery free
rise up your fist and shout
Pleiades, Pleiades, I can hear you sing
It's time for us Humans
let's bring down that sweet thing
If you can't put your finger on what happens next
it goes something like this:
We've all been waiting for that
lighthouse bringer, that aetheric singer,
the someone who was willing to point the finger
we just didn't think it was going to be a ginger
Go back to sleep and when you awake
Maybe then you'll know
who's the medicine keeper
If you never learned nothing from Pablo Picasso
is that it ain't no fun being like a big *****
Just funnin' Pablo, don't take no offence
love it how you went swinging for fence
every time you woke up
to live in that moment
it's what you saw and
how you saw it
that makes me feel
~ raw, raw, raw ~
I tried to deconstruct your craft:
it deconstructed me
the only way out of that enigma
was to twist myself up into a new reality
And here
I am sitting
my flag unfurled
in my missed fortune
lost in-between
feeling unseen
A look in the mirror reveals a fractured self
a person separated from collective wealth:
Well forget this!
It Is Time For Health
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 at 10:36 PM UTC
The Pleiades
Oh the Pleiades
The spirits of seven
Amazonian warriors
Who went into the sky
For protection against men
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 19, 2019 at 11:07 AM UTC
Subconscious vapors of lucidity whisper into the depths of my soul. Pleading Pleiades, daughters of Atlas, exhale mythical wisps that wander in the constellations of my mind anointing me and by their
decree I am Divine.
Aug 23, 2018
Aug 23, 2018 at 11:19 AM UTC
I am a dandelion in the hand of a child.
I haven’t the heart to tell her
that I’m a **** and not a wildflower.
So I don’t.
The stars are always aligned but I can’t always see
them properly. When the light is low and the moon is new
I can show you what Orion’s arm is pointing to,
a little cluster like us that hardly exists.
My mother used to tell me that my hands would be
too clammy to be held by anyone else
but she wasn’t counting on you.
Our fingers are woven tight enough that I feel safe
looking up-
we can take the constellations in turns, you first,
so that if the toe of your boot catches
a crack in the asphalt where moss is growing through
I can steady you.
And you would do the same for me.
The earth is so young. There will be
time enough for me to take you to the observatory,
to see properly how Orion stands ready
to catch the Pleiades.
We can watch it till sunrise, fingers intertwined,
blinking sleep from our eyes as the sun blinks the stars
from its skies, thinking:
that is you and I
Jan 9, 2016
Jan 9, 2016 at 12:17 PM UTC
Orion,
Orion,
Out there over the horizon,
Take me to the Pleiades,
That is what I plead to thee,
Show me those whispers floating in the sea,
Bright light touching both you and me.
Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 8:24 PM UTC