Wednesday, August 28, 2013

August Vision & No more (war)

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August Vision

They appear over the hill
Walking in fine clothes
Singing
Bare walking feet free in
The pool reflecting
Hundreds of thousands
Ears ring with the sonorous
Timber of soaring hope
They appear from all corners
Towns, hamlets, cities, and
Across that United Nation
Together in that August sunshine
Spilling together as one
Overcome





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No more

there is no rationale
for war when after
blood is cleaned
and rivers run
with salt of tears
enemies meet
in futured years
there is no rationale
for war
to ease the
irk and angst
and outrage
of conflicts arise
find any non lethal
contest and award
a prize as onlookers
spectate in cyberspace
and protect the sacred
flesh of this our joined
human race



Peace and Love
to all for all

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Fierce Little Sister



Fierce Little Sister


She was a fierce little sister
No filters over her cupid bows
Standing in the keep of bully's shadow
Shouting "Enough" holding sharded
Pieces of his Christmas train
Appearing at the sound of his cries
A gusting pint-sized superhero
Hands clenched on tiny hips
Shouting away the bitter taste
Of bullied words still choking his throat
She was a fierce little sister, pig tails
Bouncing in fierce indignant protection
Of my flung big brother dignity
As she shouted "Out"
And I sullied in shame flung in the dirt
Rose in amazement and 
watched as go, he did.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Springs Eternal






Springs Eternal 

Out south in Bitter Springs
Gusting on a trail of crushed
Cries, comes that train whistle
Scattering shattered 
pieces of blooded heart-ache
Piercing enough to shudder
The peaceful sleep of lovers
Locked in fierce filters of forever
Clutching each other in the sudden chill
Of Passing Dread
In the shimmering keep of dreams 
Out south in Bitter Springs










Sunday, August 18, 2013

If and when...







If and when...

In the corner
Of the floor of
My closeted heart
Stay the deactivated
Dreamed dreams
Persuaded during
Some period to be
Folded by degrees
Placed by degrees
And years further back
In the space of dim
Nestled in vision
Tribute to the waiting
“if” and “when”  











Friday, August 16, 2013

in the rustle



Street Light by jose alhambra


in the rustle

in the rustle
listen
to the shirr of
petals falling
on the skittered
back of startled
creatures burrowing
deeper into the
sweet green leaves
growing brittle
just a little
day by day

listen
as the cerulean marble
shifts on stalwart axis
some
held tight
others
flung into the
ever night
all
in the rustle
below, beneath,
beyond
the buzzing
business of
living …

listen…



Thursday, August 15, 2013

Listening Advocate RLB


Street Light by jose alhambra


Listening Advocate RLB

One of two hundred?
I think not
Rather One

who opened 
with a golden key 

the door to a
 street cobble
stoned with
 winding words

petaled with soft chestnut 
blossoms falling
 

as poets met 
and

listened

to
 the 
words 
of


one


and one another

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Congratulations RLB – for many who began sharing on the original Street- you will always stand alone in a special place, on a mystical endless winding lyrical road…


Saturday, August 10, 2013

In the Wallow



In the Wallow



too often 

they circle in the Wallow

too often

they scatter the striking illuminate of living breath

too often

they race - pounding the concrete in stark incentive-pounding pavement without a hitch they strain subtracted of sentience

too often

the Wallow rises to stand- the whirlpool to suck, inhale, and swallow breath scattering ashes voluminous unexplored ephemra lived particles shimmering as fireflies; silver slivers of life flickering in the blowing void, the whisper of unwallowed- winds, of love postponed, of laughter repressed, of change continuous -    

of life surrendered in sorry exchange for inertia in the 

Sirened, wanton, call of the Wallow

too often