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there are so many things
I wish to do
they root in creativity
so little time
further more less energy
I am in need
of focusing as I learn to float
this wild river
sickness muted my life into
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*
there are so many things
I wish to do
they root in creativity
so little time
further more less energy
I am in need
of focusing as I learn to float
this wild river
sickness muted my life into
.
*
my favorite occupation
has been that of
listening to silence
to give shapes
to music singing
with my hands
on top of the colors
that lay already there
to tiptoe in-love
slowing down
my responses
to evade darkness
into the beauty held
inside as the harmony
viable all around
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Poem from California Notebooks 01
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absolute is the space
I search within
the fire the unstoppable
waters that rule me
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it’s there you know
poetry waits patiently
for me to return to
our holy silence
to our time alone to
that embrace if I could
never let go always
be poetry myself
.
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*
it comes up
as water gushing
out of a broken pipe
the flood of tears
when I sit face
to face poetry
meeting me
.
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*
may my smile
be forever loving
as I play in life
new roles and adjust
words as a tight dress
may wind clothe me
forever changing
just that loving smile
let that one survive
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This poem appears in the first volume of the “California Notebooks”.
6.
as the steps behind the stage
before the curtains rise fretful
yet filled with anticipation are
these morning poems coming
to me out of silence – eager
.
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After Wallace Stevens poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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the sun rests
on my hair on a
winter afternoon
hours fleeting
rushing into the
calm evening
not daring to
go inside subtracting
myself from grace
I keep my head down
bowed as I write between
letters my emotions
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Poem from the newly released book “California Notebooks” now available on Amazon.com
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poems come
as I walk
movement inspires
just as mental stillness
more that gut
wrenching rejection
poems come
as I walk and I do
not stop ever
pad out and up as
a mirror to my face
I write looking inside
I well know the path
outside trampled on
it so very often
it may look crazy
it may look maniac
it’s poetry flowing
breath keeping me
(alive)
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