Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The baby was named




The baby was named…

The baby was to be named
with enough tradition to
satisfy the hunger for legacy
The baby was to be named
for my father adored and
gone physically living in my
soul – this baby was going to
be named for him – with swirl
of a silver-threaded tallis and
a rabbi versed in modern ways
smiling in new traditions and
assembled love – the baby was
named –in his home - echoes-
 proud, persistent, prevailing - 
footsteps of those who climbed
Massada, walked to gas chambers
marched for civil rights so that this
day and this child could be born and
be named – this child born into a new
world –where too often respect lays tossed
on a trash-heap of indifference, this newborn
of caring, of love, of tradition, of reverence
for a man, for decency, for sanctity of all life
the baby was named with the name
meaning “lion” and in the twinkle of
this innocent’s infant eyes I watched
the world roar in triumphant survival

and hope
respected
rewritten
reborn 



This poem written in response to Midweek Motif's theme of "respect" at Poets United. ... 

Sunday, August 27, 2017

In-Sense



 In-Sense 

I list, hammer in hand pummeled
by the winds blown on the shores 
of convergence, the stench of rancid 
wretched refuse rotting burns my eyes - 
gusts gale across rivers, hatred unburied 
sends swollen bodies gangrened and 
grinning tumbling from this desperate 
dump of demonism - and I hesitate for
but a nanosecond - until I stand -straight
and swing - hard - the crack of my own
forehead satisfying as optical nerve 
hemorrhages and finally, finally -    
once more all turns rosy again - 
as I stand on the sun fingered 
shore and protect in the only 
way I see possible - my vision 
as into the epic frame of future 
 bloodied hammer in hand fall -
before it is too late to 
choose 









  1. In-Sense 


  2. I list, hammer in hand pummeled
  3. by the winds blown on the shores 
  4. of convergence, the stench of rancid 
  5. wretched refuse rotting burns my eyes - 
  6. gusts gale across rivers, hatred unburied 
  7. sends swollen bodies gangrened and 
  8. grinning tumbling from this desperate 
  9. dump of demonism - and I hesitate for
  10. but a nanosecond - until I stand -straight
  11. and swing - hard - the crack of my own
  12. forehead satisfying as optical nerve 
  13. hemorrhages and finally, finally -    
  14. once more all turns rosy again - 
  15. as I stand on the sun fingered 
  16. shore and protect in the only 
  17. way I see possible - my vision 
  18. as into the epic frame of future 
  19.  bloodied hammer in hand fall -
  20. before it is too late to 
  21. choose 


  22.    





Sunday, August 20, 2017

Finally Getting Some

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Finally Getting Some Understanding

Meet me in the sad statues'  park ...
throw me over the back of Lees horse
fuck me with facts - hard until our own hoods
fly from our eyes and our vision blazes unrestricted
fuck me to the core until our unknown lies loose and 
scream free - bucking left and right and in between -
fuck me until we melt steel to stability, smelt chaos to calm - 
Oh yes, fuck me founding fathers until panting-sighing tears
streaming in understanding we rise - finally together in naked 
glory - free at last -free at last - sweat slicked, one nation,atoned, 
attuned, with liberty and justice for all..watching from our perfecting 
hill as the nascent evil orange of torches flicker out over a new horizon 
and a new dawn fingers the very sky in light ....




The Sunday Whirl



Sunday, August 6, 2017

Simmer until done



Simmer until done…

Under the surface of the simmered –
chains clank – despite who won what –
chains clank –color bleeds from each
and every pounding throat – and still
the acorn nut grows into an oak tree
year after year – tree after tree - until
as filigreed leaves dance in the sunshine
comes a punch to the throat – a blazing
label of hate no longer hidden - matter
coalescing into a wave of contortion
uncapped, unrestrained, unashamed.
Under the surface of the simmered
The bulging aneurysm of anguish shall
burst into that star spangled banner
waved high and proud and claimed
in a consensus of conscience
finally cooked and ready to serve
liberty
exploded