Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’
Tonight’s the Night We Begin!
From tar roof tops people lean and watch in the soft summer afternoon heat below them I crusade in full-color 3-D through the holy land of NYC St. Mark's Place across town I am a warrior bound to take back CBGB's from the unbelievers I am a warrior bound (and there's Mojo's the scene five years later of our last fight ever, [...]
Israeli Morning
On us the fervent sun set on my 6 weeks of edenic knowing the eastern loss of our new mourning, a disc eclipsed by the Mount of Gilboa (the place of ancient dying-- that of Saul, not Ruth) you and I sharing of the M'sheekha, of liberation and rebirth, but our friendship closing, lost in wine and straw [...]
To Moon or Elsewhere
translated by Soma Roy Let us go to Moon or to Mars * No empty space remains here. On railway-tracks, in between the Gulmohors, Atop coconut trees How did so many skyscrapers spring up? * Even a small piece of land is not available here. Let us leave the grasslands then, and fly into the sky. There we will build a [...]
Black Cherry
Used for jelly and wine, wild cherry syrup for coughs from the bark, the wood red-brown with whitish sapwood, resistant to decay, durable, the small cherries are called drupes, leave yellowed stones. Found in oak hickory woods, not here. I would re-arrange the world this morning, bring the trees walking towards me [...]
