Tuesday, November 4, 2014

VERSE OF WALES

Wales Wales, Land of my GrandMothers.
My soul must be partly an Island Shore
Where time over epochs anoint Feathers
My heart  which has been spent in a Tower
Yearns for an Ancient Home where there are Droves
Endless and Elegant Moss of Ages
Triumphal Origin, GLory to all Kin.
Answer me, Answer me, ANswer me, Bird?
Why do you Pity me if not for Love?
Yet, what good can you do with your Feathers?
Do you write Verses as I do you Now?
Or are you enslaved by Beauty tol Art?
Birdsong is what to Legends of Arthur?
The Noble, the Epic, the Courteous.

LOVE CROW

Crow caws and to distract and confuse me
Crow plays games with my head and my feelings.
Each time that he does I grow from within
Though he is wiser, kinder, and free
he doesn’t diminish my experience
I am only a destitute human
Yet for Crow I show potential he sings
to demonstrate his knowledge and nature
nothing he does is unnecessary!
Crow only counts what makes sense for saying
his ingredients on voice and wing
beak, talon, feathers, thinking and vision!
Oh crow are you to break me so gentle
and perch closer to me than you would’ve

BROTHER CROW

Crow strikes a pose on the telephone pole.
He straightens his wings sleek as a shadow

exchanges notes with a Crow out of view
Acting as Watch for his brothers below.

when I approach Crow descends on a fence
from where he watches his brothers at work

Three are in formation next to the curb.
Two stand at guard as one raises a fern

From it falls the seed of a palm flower
Rolled from its husk sack of fan-like foliage

Crow beats its beak on it, small, hard, yellow
With all of his brothers watching over

Each bird a Talon and a Talon a bird
One step inside of each Other bird.


Saturday, November 1, 2014

HERE IT IS

 I have come to the conclusion of this.
The distance resumes its distance, I wince.
It hurts to be so happy yet it is
Its own form of the same unhappiness

it stirred when deterred or was haphazarded
I am hard headed for the sake of it.
Yet without knowing I commit far worse.
For I know nothing about survival

I know little about overwhelmed love
It presses weight on the soft of the soul
It can’t be reduced in its magnitude.
Try what you do the heart is an anchor

IT seems extremely dangerous and yet
here it comes now into the present tense

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