with a question-mark –
the stranger’s profile, immortalised
as they waited at the crossing lights;
the face crumpled with laughter
at the joke you missed, as
you boarded the bus;
the first glimpse of a future lover’s
stance, expression meaningless:
strangely unattractive,
insignificant yet remembered;
whose photographs are these?
it’s as if some other mind
borrowed your camera without your consent,
to leave taunting hints of timelessness.
demanding thunder’s drumrollechoing round the mountains. Salzburgwas never so musical. In his gardena pulsatilla flinched with joy. Beneathhis fast pen, music wrote itself. In this house,the waterpipes made music with the cistern,doors made harmony with window catches; wet shoeswith wooden chairs scraped back. Mathematicsscrawled on walls sang number.Piano lessons were from youth to age,no need…
Is Mary tired? Or, as one untouched?All birth’s a miracle; not less this one.The cattle have bestirred at hint of morn,the thought of feeding making moist their muzzle;straw is rustling, as they, manger-drawn,find unfamiliar form- so warm – to nuzzle.What were the first words Joseph softly saidto Mary, as dawn broke, this day of days?And…
Why is it so important to you?‘I was there.’How can you describe it?‘I was there.’What did you know of it?‘I was there.’And what did it teach you?‘Of itself, nothing;only that I was there.’And what will that bring to you?‘Now, all may be known.’Then what can your poem share with others?‘Be there too.’What can you say…
illusions film illusions;reality’s the frame…But Hindus have the best seatsin real life’s picture-house:resting in eternity,watching all else pass..*(occasioned by reading the ‘Hindupedia’ website on Dharma, Ayurveda, and much else..)
says who poets’poetness?worthwords,spearshake,art forsaken arta now world,with here you,in our all,whose heart?if lovelinesssays sweetly Yessays who poets’poetness?
crazier,than fiction.On September 16 the refereesuspended a football matchfollowing complaints by the spectatorsthat the players on bothmulticultural or should I saymultiracial teamshad been racially abusing each otherwith terms like ‘black bastard’a player corrected this, explainingthat it wasn’t racial abuse but‘sledging’ – to put offplayers from kicking penalties etc.:‘Sure it was abuse, but therewas no racism’well…
