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Owning Up
OWNING UP
Each of these poems
Is intended to be best
Read aloud … For why?
For I love the sounds
So build each piece
With sound in mind
As well as meaning
Plus any reference
For I love word play
Adore ambivalence
And multiple levels
Of tacit meaning
The writer invites
The reader invents
Becomes co-creator
In passing the time
Across The Ocean: Tanka
ACROSS THE OCEAN
“Am I coherent?”
You asked … I made a meaning
Out of what you said
Hopefully it is the one
You had in mind … But who knows?
Poems Lead Poets
POEMS LEAD POETS
This poem as emerged is actually
far more bitter and anguished
than its writer. Or far less …
What the hell. Let’s let it go;
it’s just the way it grew.
The initial germ here sprouted out
from a piece of Sarah’s weeks ago
that somehow caught my interest.
I’d have trouble locating it now;
it’s transmorphed completely.
Laboured at it for hours; it wouldn’t let go.
Clearly it’s determined to have its say.
As for you, happening by readers
looking out for an explanation
dream on, friends, dream on.
Cue
CUE
Deep breath …
And …
Dive …
Cue: Fish
Swimming along alone
Unwittingly … Alarmingly … Lost
In some pea soup or other
Cue: Foghorns
(Cue: Definition
“Anything said or done
On or off stage, that is followed
By some specific line or act”)
Cue: Some moment designated: LOVE
Containing its own built-in distress
Statutory though … So no blame then
And with also some kind of kindness
Inserted just to be on the safe side
As Spring springs to life past Winter
Hmmm … Seems time to learn to listen to learn from Nature
As seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, whole lives
Slip by missed since busy spent seeking top marks
Spent forging on from nought to zero and back
For where’s the harm? Where’s the harm?
After all, after all, what’s zero after all
But the ground from whence all …
Hearts grow cold, a cold unnoticed
Hearts go to seed, to lockstep
Lockstep, lockstep, lockstep
From here and now to eternity
Nowhere now forever forever
Unnoticing the Eternity
Already here
Drowning in a homegrown madhouse
TVnRADIO busy busy busy working
Busy bent normalising the unforgivable
Exuding daily an utter absence of gorm
So good to have a friend though
Even if it is kind of imaginary
Children knew what those are all about
Before some way or another forgetting
Alas a loss alas a loss alas a loss
Brightness of eye now bedimmed yet body
Not yet quite hunted to extinction
Has and retains a mind of its own
Descended from apes
… Just not very far
… And not always in the right direction
Sheep bleat, mumble
“Don’t push at the back there”
An immodest silence
Opens and closes
Stuck fast twixt yes or no, cheese or chalk
Meaninglywhile preferring another option
A timeless walleyed stare into the abyss
Doomed to this personal threshold
Deep breath …
And …
Dive …
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This was written as a contribution to The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt No. 58.
https://secretkeeper.net/2016/10/10/weekly-writing-challenge-58/
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Stray Petal
STRAY PETAL
I spy
With my
Little eye
…..Little I
…..Little I
Stray petal
Detached
Drifting by
Borne on a brook
…..Feeding a river
…..Feeding an ocean
Relentlessly surrendering
Substance
As might some hardback
Missing its jacket
…..Transient
Yet its content
…..Intent
…..Intact
Awaiting rediscovery
And rebirth
Jazz Me Do
JAZZ ME DO
Memory splinters … Splinters linger on
Orphaned … Amputated … Alien
Earlier hellbent … Later bent
Like a banana
Like a tasty adventure
Up … Behind … To infinity and beyond
Like the neighbour who
Spotting the Buddha in the back garden asks
“What’s wit’ monk?”
Like a glance above wondering
In this boundless blossoming heaven
“What’s wit’ bird?”
What’s wit’ Bird?
Variations on a theme
Came a long long way to end up here
To land up here wondering
“What’s wit’ Miles
What’s wit’ all these miles an’ miles?”
Heresy (28a)
HERESY
Explosive
This marriage of words
Half-closed doors
Fly open
Naked, virgin thoughts scamper
Hither and thither
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The Me In Meaning (8b)
THE ME IN MEANING
Always seemed
Fairly subjective
What passes
For meaning
How and where we go seeking
Has its influence
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