In Response to a Comment Made about Other Poems I Wrote

What delight I found in
Baring something I had done to her
And reading in reply that
She felt just as seen as
I felt myself to be
Just then
!

An image after my own heart…
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Who could fail to find pleasure in
Writing words such as
Provoke such words in return
Or
Better yet
To take away the words that would form
Leaving speechless panting in their wake?

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Written from the Need to Write Despite Knowing No Words Suffice

The urge swells in me
More potent now than
Even the most turgid adolescent lust
Memories of which continue to haunt
Taunting recollections of the kind of fool I was
As opposed to the kind of fool I am
And I would put my hand to its ease
As I am not alone in having done
And to distraction on more occasions than is
Comfortable to recount
But there is all to little there to grab
And my fingers feel too empty when they close
Wrist feeling no resistance as the arm jerks
Again and again and again
Leaving nothing leaking out

In case I wasn’t clear…
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It’s Sometimes Easier

To hammer out some rhythm on the keys
And hope the lines flow well together
Harmonizing without attention despite intent

Not among my instruments.
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Something given as a task to children
Surely cannot be so much of a challenge to begin
And it might be thought of little value for that

And yet there are those who will spend their lives
Or many hours of many days among them
Poring over the keys to find each sound within them
Never exhausting them all

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Written as Hours Decline in the Wake of a Season Ending

The story is that
A shining city on the hill
Was raised to serve as a
Beacon for the world
Lighting the way to
Liberty and justice for all
And though the ideal was not achieved
For many or for long
If for any or at all
It was yet held up and out as
The ideal
The goal toward which all ought to strive
And no few did more than make a show in that effort

Something of the sort?
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The story is seldom told anymore
Striving seen as to no good end
And those who boasted they ought to be better
Have let themselves lapse into silence
Screaming until throats were bloodied
Availing nothing against the cacophonous din
Lost amid more dissonance than
An augmented fourth or minor second will sound
And I do not know if it is a relief that
The pretense has gone away or
A sullen, sodden shame that
The light has been let dim and die out at last

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A Tanka Written for a Contest and Rejected

The drink will grow cold
Sitting so long untended
The cup left idle
Better a cold coffee mug
Than a throat left parched too long

Ahhhh.
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Composed in Haste between Other Things Needing Done

Many are the rules
Written by the fools
Who have become the tools
Of those they will not see

It’s what popped up first.
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They say we must obey
Each word that they will say,
Comply without delay
Or else we will not be

Such methods to resist
As somehow still persist
May not for long exist;
Who can fight or flee?

But while there is a way
Let us go without delay
Do what we can today;
Tomorrow, we shall see.

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Dashed off in Haste in a Stolen Moment

One thing done and
Just enough time to
Take a breath before
The next thing has to
Begin and
I find myself pecking away at the keys again
Though I have never been able to play piano well
And there is no reed to which to put my lips and tongue today

Tis the season…
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Still
There is music in it
A strain and refrain and another melodic line
Carrying through the lot as I
Hammer out some idle percussion for a few bars
Until another audience arrives that
Paid for a different show entirely

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Years Later, Another Rumination on #WhanThatAprilleDay

It is the truth that some few years have passed
Since of this observation I wrote last
And marked how lines bespoke such showers sweet
As rise in spring. I then still thought it meet
That I should speak as with authority
And not as penitent, making a plea.
Now, though the Ram is not quite halfway through
The course it runs, and it is not as true
That people long to go on pilgrimages
As they once were, the season still engages
Thoughts of reverdie as flowers bloom
Brighter far than any painted room
And many mount on wheels to pass them by
And marvel at the ground-held sunset sky.

Something like that, yeah.
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Grace yet remains in the giving of gold
To gentle the heat and ward off the cold
For those who know now they were wrong to be bold
Give yet again, and grace again hold!

Not to Be Rood

I seldom dream of any dreams
Best or bad; I make no boast
Of visions to voice-bearers.

Once again, the Ruthwell Cross by JThomas, which is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0

The words of wonder that wind through ages
Scribed into stone and standing on leaves that
Fell from no tree–no great feat, that–
March in their masses as must well be done
While I, not worthy, watch them pass by
Saluting those soldiers, sentinels of lore,
Yearning for years to yoke myself to them.

They walk through the world, while I
Remain here, rooted. They rove
And carry their contents, commanding attention,
Gift I, too, gave them, and gladly I did,
Hurt that they heeded no hope that I held.
They pass on, proceeding, a parade through ages,
Trudging through ticker-tape, teasing the mind
With wonder of what might have been, were things otherwise.

No axle-span asks me what I would offer,
Bespeaks its forbearance, bids me be patient
In dreams in the darkness, when my lights are dimmed.
No gold or gemstones glitter before me
In inward eye-work, no eager wood
Speaks of its strength and surrender to will
Of the fruit that it, fertile, felt compelled to avenge.
No such man am I to have such a vision
And the words of wonder that persist in the world,
Beauty in bard-craft, betray all the changes
From their time to this, as might well be thought.

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Some Rhymes about a Person Not Here

He would often sing of a man from Abas
Whose nethers were somehow constructed from glass
And those gathered ’round would give him a pass
Though that little song was well without class

Something of a source, perhaps?
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But I am no better who have my own song
That I bellow out, all day and night long
And in all that lowing hope I appear strong
Though I do but writhe upon fear’s fork’s prong

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