Wednesday, May 13, 2015

EMIL EMILIANO

--poetry

Stimming and Gasping Im having Asthma.
One Son and Another Arisen, Mom?
Are you Okay? I don't want you to Know.
Yet I can't hide the Sounds of my Breathing.

My Son comes to me takes my Pulse in His.
He stands with me in Misery's Throne.
But I dont' want you to be like me Son.
He Says LItlle to Nothing. His Lamp This.

His Wings have Encompassed my Heart and Lungs.
With all of his Strength he Calms the Thronging.
Just WIth A Look he Lifts My Whole Being.
I Surrender my Doubt. I take his Love.

While I have been Strengthened he has been Drained.
My Child, Same Mother, Same Pain Again.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

POET

As poets we have one purpose only
though nameless and unknown, it still holds true
the reasons for poetry are many
they bely with answers the suffering

Nothing makes sense to a poet of death
as we know it-- mere speculation, myth,
and being as we know it more worthy
as time is required for the journey

For being is as something unalike
as never and always sleep or awake
to our ears a long and low silent cry
but to our ancestors are everything

A poet is another way to get
from one side of distance to the other.

ONCE,TWICE

The calabash broken broken two times
Once was a reason twice never reasoned
Both the partition and quartered a spine
I stop to think and wonder what I’ve done
To bother to stop thinking twice again
Cracked like a body, horse driven carriage
Medieval and omnipresent carnage.
What cease to let up what manner conduct
Ensnared as a lesion ghost of despair
Provoked, absconded, retired from care
Which purpose was abhorrent behavior
The behavior of power to torture
As it clutches for innocence broken
Once for a reason twice never reasoned.

Monday, April 27, 2015

the birds in the trees sing so lovingly

the birds in the trees sing so lovingly
as perfect as perfection while playing
while decorating the flowers with spring
so kind and so merciful as it pines
for lost innocence is a melody
while beautiful and nameless it is time
equal to its unwritten timelessness
as sense is to silence and silent reeds
the birds in the trees sing so beautifully
songs of a promise that birds always keep
sing in the morning at noon and sunset
sing to the sun in its climb over earth
be its voice when it reaches for its heart
be its lullaby and its morning song.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Just Sonnet

I think and thought about a thousand things.
And each with its full table of contents
as complete as each one to existence
how they came to be and are and still ring
with a growing permanence as certain
as memory will not make omissions
and fate is just a starting point of rhyme
when sound and sense combine and separate.

I think of what to do for the sonnet
that is to say I try to fulfill it
though it be unedited and written
by formula, I hope it is unique

I hope that it will be blessed as it is.
Unedited and unrevised justice.

Songbird Sonnet

The Songbirds are Singing their Lovely Notes.
Their Song is heard while these words are SIlent.
They pause and allow one Bird the Moment.
It chirps in descending volume then Ends
For a brief millisecond Disappears
Or, rather, grows Inaudible Slowly.
First the image subtracting from the Flock
Pairs duo then continue, a trio
Emerges before a Quartet Begins
Carefully everything is bent on Sound
Enjoying its fulcrum against the Air
Wind, reed, and fascicle, the Orchestra
Plays as it Would for a Rich Occasion
Dedicates its desire for the Noon.