Thursday, October 30, 2014

TRANSLATING BIRD, Free Verse

Talk about a dreary day.  Got up complained about the heat.
Soon enough it was looking like rain.  Can’t even complain.
Oh how city streets confuse me, most words make no sense, either.


I hear them. I know the definition. And that’s it.  The rest is a guessing
game. “Did the weather change or did I?”  Am I bipolar, do I care?
Would it help to know? I doubt it.  OR why would I ask?


It’s pointless as most things, truly are. No, not spiritually speaking.  THere’s plenty
of that and much more than really necessary.  There is no free will to speak of. This is the killer, to me, it’s both true and false.  As a poet not at all.  As a verse, perhaps, maybe...


What that once meant, I can’t say.  But I understand why a bird awaits first for an unaccented rhyme to start a song.  Light is Sound to a bird, I think.  Bird plays sound against light. I’ll explain it in human: “ this is what a Bird does to show he is a Bird!” . Bird writes Birdsongs not just plays them.


By The next day, Birdsong has evolved.  Now, responds with an accented rhyme. Birds adds to his Song, “I can do it backwards, that’s how a Bird rolls.” By The next observation, Bird won’t have anything to say over the accent. Bird is emphasizing pitch.  The way that the sounds fall from the Nest!  Bird says in Human, “I live my life as a Bird up there’s the nest.---Listen, and Watch.”


Over time, this continues. .Bird had added a purr to his chirp.  Next, bird mocked his echo.


Unchanging AND Endless



#IF you ask me what a bird would say to a Poet:  Free verse is the union of all freer verse.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

GALWAY BAY

When then Galway with its Sweet Song Rain
Drinks up the Thirst of an Ocean and Shines
Dressing every Cloud with Scented Listens
THat Swab away the Sound of Uncertains

WHisper in the Darkness of a Shadow
THe Bay in the Shore of that Ancient Time
Ticks with a Steady Heartbeat as it Chimes
Water per Eyesful the Tears of Dropped Pearls

Circumference is a Universe in Wholes
Grown miniature yet Grander than its SIze
How came it here?  Where did Originate?
THat I both know and don’t know it at Once

Memory of Mystery Never Known
As Yet without a Source is still a Home

Thursday, October 23, 2014

TO CROW

I love Crow and Crow’s Friends.  They learned to share.
THey adopt me as their student and bard
Sing to me phrases that I’d never heard.
Just like a Poet are Crow and Crow’s Heart!

While they live in my presence they never
repeat what they say every day neither
would Crow treat me that way as ritual.
For nothing between us is tedious.

We choose it to be more mysterious
and set toward that end its desires
less assumption, less routine, less allure
and more, more, more everlasting suspense

The mastery of surprise is your own
not not to imitate what Wasn’t known

ECLIPSE IGUALDAD

KNEES OF MERCY

Writing is an honor  a pledge to live


a day -- past, present, or future -- of time


living is something a bit different


without a participle it does thrive


a verb in the full measure of being


a priori or  was destined to be


in a manner of speaking so falsely


yet without it what is this mystery?


To rhetoric or to prophesy yields


as into its music it weaves its keys


which are to be touched in their loveliness


no single ingredient is perceived


alone but its details such are these:

harmony and mercy on their bent knees

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

The Soul is a Boat

The soul is a boat   the ocean sails.
Far on its distance and deeper within
It navigates the universe,  a  fin,
for harbor is the universe  an oar.

As the shore of an anchor   moors the tide
The wind-breathing of the sky  inhales
As existence a shoal of the sea spills
Beauty encircles   the hour returns

The beauty of the undulant waves bring
each orbits the weeping of the ages
and with swells of the size of creation
completes its renewal begins again

The soul is an ancient such mystery
it knows is equal to the seasons.

THE SOUL IS A BOAT

The soul is a boat   the ocean sails.
Far on its distance and deeper within
It navigates the universe,  a  fin,
for harbor is the universe  an oar.


As the shore of an anchor   moors the tide
The wind-breathing of the sky  inhales
As existence a shoal of the sea spills
Beauty encircles   the hour returns


The beauty of the undulant waves bring
each orbits the weeping of the ages
and with swells of the size of creation
completes its renewal begins again


The soul is an ancient such mystery
it knows is equal to the seasons.

Monday, October 20, 2014

ACUESTA LA LETRA

Acuestate letra hazte inmovil

y deja de viajar por el mundo

se oye tu sonido palpiton

dandole razon al creer sentido

Si existes no lo dudo ay vuelo

la paloma se entrega a tu cuerpo

respira tu eco como el tambor

la mano lo suena y el amor

mas tarde se unen por el patio

la sombra su atardecer su plomo

estas sus vocales se escuchan hoy

mientras los petalos perfumen color

tu son tu soneto tu sonido

escuchan de la boca el oido.

Wild Bird Cultured Roses

The flower that grows while the crow that crows
are attached to both ends of a horizon
stretched over its features introduces
a day like no other that’s come before

when the stem brings to beauty a mirror
as symbol of the sustenance of love
it perfumes with so ancient a perfume
scented stamen adheres to its color

presently across the sidewalk I pass
each speaks to me one is inaudible
cracking through the cosmos into the dirt
the other by two’s chants its messages

wild as birds and cultured as roses
fly wings of the sky, opaque and spacious

Thursday, October 16, 2014

A DAY IN THE SUN

Majesty beauty the sun in bouquet      

spills over surfaces of earth and drapes

painted over shadows darkened to shade

brushed across the world and cast on the clay

these are its radiant greeting flowers

for audience living creatures partakes

strings of the music the universe plays

a day is an instrument,  note and key

the soul knows only by its harmony

what knows it of mysterious power

like the distance between color and sound

is the absence of faith in its presence

senses divided unite by their sense

the music is ancient ancient defense.

Monday, October 13, 2014

PHYLLIS WHEATLEY, IMAGINATION

To Phyllis Wheatley


Your Majesty I Summon Partially.

Its Beckoning so Mystic as Beauty

Ascends to the Astros and Pirouettes

The Particle’s Substance is A-Rhyming.

Beautiful Sunset cast in my Orbit

Remarkable as Marvels of Heaven

Imagination, you who know Everything

I adore you, you are more Radiant

Than all the WOrld’s RIches Twinkling Sparks

You appear already Luminos, Word

FOr I did not strike the Phospohorous Wood

Before you came here and Warbled a Lark.

Beauty of Beauty awakes in the Dark

Illuminate my Vision with your Art.

PLAGIARIST

Oh No!  Here comes the Ragign Plagiarist!

She strides down the hallways a menace face

Two hovels  eyes with bitter eyelashes

The terror of discovery--again Agh!

Columbus, Cortez, and the Fascist Boss

They bend over backwards with Avarice

Asses of Downtrodden Artifices

that To think ofs to Swallow ABysses

Virtuous Orifice the Dungeon of Minds

HEre come Vicissitudes without a Clue

Nondescript, Rhetorical, and Abstruse

The worship of the noose in the Minion

Beggar of anything but Opinion

Sunday, October 12, 2014

ASSANGE AND SCHMIDT

Assange and Schmidt  (the State Department, too)


at the Ecuadorian Embassy


Like two brothers-- but, no not exactly


One may surmise he is invinciboo


unlike Beyonce sang in “To The LEft.”


The other is running an Empire--


Government is Good if Gov is a G.


Old school, inclusive yet still powerful


mind while I rescue your GF’s laptop?


--Your instinct is fast, you saved me a lot!


Not that I need it, I AM the dot.gov


Are you Ready for Hillary Come on!


I am having a cerebral hemorrhage


Where is my army, my navy, my gun?

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

LIFE AND WAR ON EARTH

There is a world which humans inhabit


It lays at their feet a beautiful place


Of arbors so blessed the heavens they kiss


Wide arching mountains knot on its surface


Stone, wood, and mineral, stone, wood, and poem


Fauna and people, their tracks leave behind


when treading on a ground that is a home


forces for motion and forces for time


All made available for all of life


Each particle is beheld by itself


Nothing is wanting not lacks anything


but to be what it is and let to live


All War is madness grown into disease

that hungers to the end of existence.

Monday, October 6, 2014

TOLSTOY AND TWAIN

Tolstoy and Twain meet in the afterworld.

One looks at the other and both confirm.

Truth has two ways to get around mischief.

Illustrated or Painted, takes methods.

The Russian and Ruse depict the same thing

One writes Epic the other tells Tales

Mercy has two mouths to make them Wail

Innocence is nothing til its is something

Genius and Genie appear near the Ocean

Above is the sky below is the Sea

One draws the horizon into a Tear

the other journeys into the Fountain

Muse and Musician what have you come for

but to weep and to fathom evermore.

NESTORA MANTEN

Nestora  en el cuartel se peina

le van dando los detalles en si

los que estaban toman la palabra

primero acontecen despues rien

hasta en eso la es aparecida

a la MItica la Porcepina

por ella el verso dio abrio las plumas

y la alas que animaban

que entonces eran inmoviles

cancion no se oyo tan hermosa

la que la pluma despierta en ala

y para crear su destino iran

juntas y apretadas de la Paz

Genua, Sincera, y Mantenidas

Sunday, October 5, 2014

CLOUD LEAF

A cloud -- a leaf shaped cloud -- raised by the wind

and high above the earth -- but not too high--

that clustered formed a tapestry of sky

suspended over the air-skin heaven

drew my eyes toward its trunk and branches

I see what oak has cast in wooden form

when water parted into hew and foam

like once original but unmade patterns

from traces of its outlines comes a trunk

that higher than beyond it now is shorn

splashed across celestial looms the vision

leaves as tenderly that bloomed of thunder

misted in its arbor and its canopy

tattered by the wind a stem of beauty