Showing posts with label concrete poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concrete poetry. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Grow where you stand
I
wipe the
soil from my
hands and stand.
Surveying the land,
there is nothing grand
to see as yet, only the
furrows of dirt still wet
from the first drink offered to this infant garden
bed. Seeds planted and placed to form an as-yet invisible
lace that will grace this space with the blooms from nature’s loom.
In their dormant state, those seeds contain innate instructions to
germinate, infiltrate and dominate the hand of space where they
land, growing tall from the place they stand. I will walk over
this patch each day to scratch away at the earth making
sure the berth equals the worth of the seeds. In
time with my feeding they will grow to seedlings,
needing the soft thudding
of water on the soil to start budding and
coiling toward the sky. Without asking of
why they will climb high and try, even if I
left them to die. I will sit in my garden for it
to smooth the hardened edges life drives into
wedges of my soul. The way a flower takes its
place in the world and slowly unfurls pearls
of beauty curling for all to see, stops
me questioning if what I am, is
less than what
I
s
h
o
u
l
d
b
e.
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
A moment before time
There’s this
one beautiful scene,
a moment between you
and me. With our passion
just started and from our clothes
we have parted I look down into your
eyes. There can be no lies, no denials to
give rise to. It is just me and it is just you.
We share in the silence unbroken but through
our locked gazes there is so much spoken that
any aloud, token words would cheapen and not
serve to deepen our connection. This minute
of shared affection, of momentary reflection is
as near to an emotional perfection as I can
ever remember being. An unmatchable space
needing no correction. With my arms encasing
your waist, face to face with our skins meeting
in all of the right places I am left to look down at a
a gown-less you and decide which part, and what to
do first now I have you. I smile for I do know that
as we while away we are in thought compiling plays
to make on each other. Do I smother with lust or do I
cover your bust softly with kisses only a lover is able to
muster? Your eyes eclipse my soul as your soft lips do
hold my attention. Retention of this moment calls for the
suspension of time. It is in this moment that the line
between yours and mine gets blurred and our passion,
unrationed, romantically fashioned is finally to be heard.
Friday, 11 May 2012
Downunder
I am an
inhabitant of a
land downunder. It
is a strange, mystical
land where each day I ride into
work on the back of a kangaroo whom
I have named, Roger. Every morning I’m fed
my breakfast (Sydney Opera House shaped pancakes)
by a koala named, Ringo. Wherever I go, I’m not more than a
two minute walk from the desert and I am constantly in a
battle for survival against the venomous snakes and
spiders that run the Australian government.
My accent lends itself very
well to an avid
‘crikey!’ call.
Beer is the
only thing
ever
to go
past
my lips,
even when
they’re parched
by the
sun that never, ever, ever, ever goes away.
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Ninjas took over the world (again)
On the
day ninjas took
__ /============== /””””\
`”\\;;.____//over the world, no one noticed.
_/./ Ninjas believe stealth is their
\;;;;;;-‘-’ most important trait so when
they succeeded in taking
complete control
while not once
being seen, they celebrated
their victory with much
fly kicking and sake.
This overtaking of
the land is done by
the ninjas
often.
We’re
blind
to all
of it
due
to, you
know, them
being
so stealthy and all of that shadowy business.
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The Great Soul
So much of
the world is consumed in a
state of constant conflict. Wars that
are fought simply because
they have always been fought.
Wars are fought against
ideas and usually wars are
products of the minority.
Every harvest contains
a few spoiled apples
but so often we let
them pollute entire
crops. We can go bravely
into a battle without a weapon;
it has been done successfully before.
We can keep our arms locked at our sides
showing everyone that we need only our
words and resolve to win. Peace is something
attainable, there is not any need for the
continual letting of blood. It
just seems that some are
not aware of this yet. Great souls
have walked the Earth, we need to
strive to have more than one
at once.
Monday, 30 April 2012
Finding my own luck
I need to quit the
shit of saying ”If I could be
so lucky”, ease off complaining
about the mucky state of a sucky
life and get into fighting and righting things, not
crying for the downturns that life brings. I do know
that luck is out there but it had to start somewhere;
with a small change in the air from a falling chair that
blew a paper to be snared showing words that bared
an idea to the receiver making her a believer in the
love that gave her. That chair is what I
must be instead of the one
who just waits to see. Everything starts with a random
series of events but there is an event and tracking back
the segments prevents waiting for the presents and being
content to lament. I must try to start the daisy chain of
personal gain, ingrain it in a part of my brain so that
the pain when things wane will not ruin the gain.
I can be so lucky if I get plucky, stuck
in and grinning, with the aim to start
winning. I just need stop spinning out
if life pins me down for a bout.
I know luck is out
there,
some-
where.
It’s only fair I do my share in finding it.
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