Who is born
In the next room
So loud to my own
That I can hear the womb
Opening and the dark run
Over the ghost and the dropped son
Behind the wall thin as a wren’s bone?
In the birth bloody room unknown
To the burn and turn of time
And the heart print of man
Bows no baptism
But dark alone
Blessing on
The wild
Child.
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Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound
On the silent sea we have heard the soundThat came from the wound wrapped in the salt sheet.Under the mile off moon we trembled listeningTo the sea sound flowing like blood from the loud woundAnd when the salt sheet broke in a storm of singingThe voices of all the drowned swam on the wind.Open a…
Now
Man dry man,Dry lover mineThe deadrock base and blow the flowered anchor,Should he, for centre sake, hop in the dust,Forsake, the fool, the hardiness of anger.NowSay nay,Sir no say,Death to the yes,the yes to death, the yesman and the answer,Should he who split his children with a cureHave brotherless his sister on the handsaw.NowSay nay,No…
I
When my pinned-around-the-spiritCut-to-measure flesh bit,Suit for a serial sumOn the first of each hardship,My paid-for slaved-for own too lateIn love torn breeches and blistered jacketOn the snapping rims of the ashpit,In grottoes I worked with birds,Spiked with a mastiff collar,Tasselled in cellar and snipping shopOr decked on a cloud swallower,Then swift from a bursting sea…
Should lanterns shine, the holy face,
Would wither up, an any boy of loveLook twice before he fell from grace.The features in their private darkAre formed of flesh, but let the false day comeAnd from her lips the faded pigments fall,The mummy cloths expose an ancient breast.I have been told to reason by the heart,But heart, like head, leads helplessly;I have…
I make this in a warring absence when
Harbours my anchored tongue, slips the quaystone,When, praise is blessed, her pride in mast and fountainSailed and set dazzling by the handshaped ocean,In that proud sailing tree with branches drivenThrough the last vault and vegetable groyne,And this weak house to marrow-columned heaven,Is corner-cast, breath’s rag, scrawled weed, a vainAnd opium head, crow stalk, puffed, cut,…
O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies
Rape and rebellion in the nurseries of my face,Gag of dumbstruck tree to block from bare enemiesThe bayonet tongue in this undefended prayerpiece,The present mouth, and the sweetly blown trumpet of lies,Shaped in old armour and oak the countenance of a dunceTo shield the glistening brain and blunt the examiners,And a tear-stained widower grief drooped…
Living,
Clarifies a little
Study and investigating,
A little more,
But Life, Us,
The Universe
Remain a Mystery,
Forevermore!
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Let those in power know
AreBut empty wordsIf deeds don’t follow,Their always slowTrain,Of promises madeBut hardly everSustained,As countrymen are made,Their hopes and serenadesTo bitterly, swallow.
Poetry, look at me,
Was our love-life something wrong?To desire with such fire,All a poem can prolong.Life is nonsense without substance,If some good you can’t perform,I have loved you with my conscience,And the passion of a Storm.Poetry, beloved Fountain,Of my Life, you are my home,And my Country and my Mountain,And my ever reaching Dome,You’re the Ocean of my motion,Where…
Don’t hold back your passion,
Let it be understood,Let it invade your every pore,Let it be your light, your sun,Do not ration,Feelings,Feel as you never felt before,At least for a few moments,You will have opened,Joy’s secret door.Passion, a part of Life,We should adore.
Art helps us
Sensations given,Open doors,Imagination triggers,FlightTo unknown WorldsOf pure delight.
Always,
In a most, falling apart way,When so long ago I met you,And did not know what to say,As Life cut all its flowers,And threw them my way,I emotionally loved you,More than I can ever say!But Life separates lovers,Not always together do they stay,And emotionally we parted,Never again, to find our way,As the rivers overflowed with…
I think,
Therefore,I must write,The Imperative,Sincerity,Of my heart.