Posted in MY POETRY on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
MOUSE FEET
Teeny-tiny mouse feet run along my ceiling
in rapidly fluttery pitty-pats
God’s dimension is so vast all the
ticking clocks face sideways
There’s a sound in the universe so pure
only one of us can hear it
Way at the end there
that silhouette of someone
standing against the moon
When you lift pen to paper
the savannah floods with light
If we’re only visiting [...]
Posted in MY POETRY on February 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
PEWTER MOONLIGHT
Old men are writing poems
by pewter moonlight
They live in different parts of the world
but their pen unites them
Their blood is as thin as rivers
after winter floods and the
springtime dries them
Each of them writes his ode
to pewter moonlight
Their eyes ache from peering deep
into lamplight
They’ve seen the comings and goings
and sheep led to slaughter
The night no [...]
Posted in MY POETRY on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in MY POETRY on February 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
THE WINE WE LOVE
The wine we love is the wine of the spirit
The wine we avoid is the wine of the body
Though the wine of the body lead to spiritual bliss
its dregs and bitters are magical temptation
Shattering the glass is the way to the pure wine
though the glass itself is the wine and the
wine itself [...]
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