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.