Monday, February 6, 2012

28 January 2012 - Glitter Moons - terzanelle



I was listening to Pandora, the online radio station that plays songs centered around a user’s input.  I had one of my current favorite artists in the queue, Florence and the Machine, and I saw her album cover for ‘The B sides/Lungs’.  This poem stems from that art as I imagined a woman in glitter heels, sitting on a moon, contemplating where the night’s liaison might go.
28 January 2012 - Glitter Moons - terzanelle
Would you swing upon a moon, hide heels of glitter,
find that lowered voices lay like satin’s sultry?
Think as night revolves on sins, the sweet and bitter.
Stations change, the songs collide and whispers call me,
combing stars from eyes and winding hair ‘round fingers,
find that lowered voices lay like satin’s sultry.
Lips so near and tongues pedantic, lace is sounding
strewn like drapes; the light of rooms is hidden closely,
combing stars from eyes and winding hair ‘round fingers.
Symptom’s claim that lust and love was lying mostly
tangled in the sweat of once upon a timely;
strewn like drapes, the light of rooms is hidden closely.
Laid with dew like on the rose we trace, don’t mind me––
tear the seams that hold a bed beneath the swooning,
tangled in the sweat of once upon a timely
bind of lace, then stop the blood from every wounding.
Tear the seams that hold a bed beneath the swooning;
would you swing upon a moon, hide heels of glitter?
Think as night revolves on sins, the sweet and bitter.
01-28-12
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27 January 2012 - Love Song - triolet


Seems like it gets more difficult to actually keep up and write a poem a day, so now I’m 2 days behind again, despite just posting 26 January 2012’s poem just now.  But, it will be easier when I get the novel done, which hopefully will be by mid Feb, end of Feb at the outset.  By my estimation, I have about 150 pages to go.
This poem is a triolet, a verse poem that is supposed to have a ‘switch’ or turning point in the last line, making the poem adept at light-weight witticism.  I’ve found though, that this poem can be used for more serious subjects just as well.  This particular poem is analyzing how many a song will plead ‘don’t leave’ to a love and when the relationship ends, suddenly the lyrics mean something different, and that the song no longer has the audience it thought it had.
27 January 2012 - Love Song - triolet
A song pleads never let me go,
to hear the chorus croon to many;
it’s time I leave and let you grow.
The song pleads; ‘never!’  Let me go
and lose me forever will show
we never loved and there weren’t any
to hear the chorus croon; too many
a song pleads ‘never let me go’.
01-28-12
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26 January 2012 - Breathe or Drown - byr a thoddaid



Put together a ship and a picture of a rotted pier and created the inspiration for the next poem.  Here, I’m saying that some go to find  their dreams, not realizing that those left behind tread water while waiting, their only hope is to breathe or drown in the reality that the other may never come back.  Didn’t mean to have this idea revolve around Erik’s imminent departure for New Zealand, but I guess that’s what subliminal thoughts can do to a person, especially a poet.
26 January 2012 - Breathe or Drown - byr a thoddaid
How long can ships be kept waiting,
tides forestalled and waves abating?
There’s anchors rusting in the bay for me,
to see time doesn’t stay.
Harbors swell and ports claim returns
no words come to tell of your concern;
with furled sail you left to kiss the sea,
to free what dreams insist.
I’ll tread the water, loving you,
turn blood to brine, let waves wash through;
a ship at sea must find the crest and crown,
the rest must breathe or drown.
01-26-12
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25 January 2012 - Eye See - hexaduad


This poem revolves around a picture I took while we vacationed (again in 2007) up north in Michigan, at Sault St. Marie.  The two younger girls had both of the binoculars which I’d brought and Traci found a creative way to come up with her own.  This poem plays on the fact we can see whatever we want to see, if we try.
25 January 2012 - Eye See - hexaduad
Eye see
there’ll be
a different way to view
the many facets you
unfold before my waking sight
a laugh, a grin, a smile again
a flirting flit
demure you sit
you’re poised to catch my breath
but lift my eyes instead
to find the ways
and change my gaze.
01-25-12
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24 January 2012 - A Pause - cinquain



This picture that I took in 2007 is from Meijer Gardens where not only did they have a nice greenhouse but also a traveling butterfly exhibit.  This is just one of the colorful inhabitants and I was struck by how isolated the insect looks, isolated but at rest.  So I thought about how to extend this metaphor...
24 January 2012 - A Pause - cinquain
a pause
from daily flight
a respite on the leaf
of timeless incongruities
breathe out
01-25-12
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23 January 2012 - A Greening of Now - fv


Another from 2007, this still is of a fir in at Cranbrook, which includes a nice natural area where I like to take pictures.  The serenity of the scene speaks to me.
23 January 2012 - A Greening of Now - fv
There near the older youthful climbs
fingers spread, as its shown
its lines still smooth
its limbs yet supple
within the  umbra
of planted memories
a strive to be
a spreading of seed
not far to fall
roots yet intertwined
a nurture of time
a fragment of peace
a greening of now
I pass this scene childlike
imaging my own
and the dreams they have
one day to replace my touch
on the sky
01-23-12



22 January 2012 - Bite - haiku




Thought I’d look back through some of my older pictures for inspiration and found this winter scene of ice on a spruce.  We had a bad ice storm in the spring of 2007, providing me with a great wealth of ice pictures.
22 January 2012 - Bite - haiku
paws of white clinging
winter nips at season’s hem
leaving teeth of ice
01-22-12
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