Friday, November 14, 2014

SWAN SONG

The Swan in the Swan Song is so Precious
Its feathers are lighter than Sound waves push
The voice of a Tenor through Destruction
Flames of the Abyss when forward they swoosh
Captivate with the Glory of Sunsprawls
Lift from Auroras Consumed in NIghtfall
As smoother than Glass the Water’s Surface
Glides as it Severs its own Existence
But not before its Tumult is Unbound
Deep the Lake will drive through the Silent Depth
To insulate the Power that spells Doom
Designed to preserve the Universe Whole
Submits to its Necessary Defeat
And Gathers from the Ramparts the Volume
Of Melody condenses its Poem.

BEAUTY FRUIT

The watch of wakeful hours counts again
the loss and removal of essential things
measured by distance to disappearance
then as truth purchased its survival
shred over centuries another fount
from mantra of ongoing turmoil
and lasting are pains to be endured still
Paramount as peacemakers to be blessed

Beauty is fecund, beauty is artful
But beauty is not a variable
Beauty is a Fulcrum Exponential.
Beauty is Faith Faith is a Principle

And as darkness falls it grows amorphous
Its branches bear its fruits for the purpose

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.