You are the fall
I am the fall guy
You are regret
You are humility
You come before
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meaning, an explosion in consciousness:as you recognise it in a flash, it’s not yet words,barely an idea; just that curious urge, for it to be;You try to get it down – the first verse is a mess,just like your bedroom as you try to packa weekend case that covers everything –but you really need it,…
War under a summer sun
in, we may hope, the angel kissof death, friend of heroic human nature.We who live on may count the loss: girl,home and love, hope and music,sex; rain; all the schoolof life. He, not.(This ‘poem’ contains the 21 most hit key words on this site – see poet page.)
How soft the faces
this summer evening!
When he was young
and poetry was lifeand girls made poetryin his hearthe’d showed his poems toan aged poet whowas quiet a while thennodded his head andsmiled andsaid ‘keep writing’and he swore that dayas long as he could hold a penhe’d write some sort of poetryand so he did and so he didand when he wastoo old to hold…
Swaami Vivekaananda describes
as monkey: agile, watchful, quick to move,yet never quite at rest. And worse, we find –intoxicated: selfish, full of pride,that agile mind sent spinning into pain,the boundless universe turned tiny box,Man’s measure never known. And worse again –this cunning, drunken monkey’s angry; stungby his own scorpion bite: and so inventshis bitter enemies, their role assigned;the…
The heart so loves to love,
The mind so plays, so loves to play,plays with that greater playof love, that plays with mind and time;time plays with love, times out of mind,but love’s the heart of it;love loves beyond time, love loves beyond mind,for in the end,there is no end to it.