Lisa Zaran Short Poems

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The Blues Are All The Same  

 ~for Jackson C.
 Frank
It seems almost too far fetched really, 
too difficult to believe.
 
This unassuming moon shining like a copper plate.
 
These milkcrate blues.
 
This soft trellis of sound 
wobbling through the wind 
as if pouring out from the window 
of some lonely house on the hill.
 
How beautiful it is, 
the ghost of your voice, 
haunting this empty valley.
 

Originally published in 2River View 10.
1, 2005
Copyright © Lisa Zaran, 2005 

Leaves  

 I went looking for God 
but I found you instead.
 
Bad luck or destiny, 
you decide.
 

Buried in the muck, 
the soot of the city, 
sorrow for an appetite, 
devil on your left shoulder, 
angel on your right.
 

You, with your thorny rhythms 
and tragic, midnight melodies.
 

My heart never tried 
to commit suicide before.
 

Originally published in Literati Magazine, Winter 2005
Copyright © Lisa Zaran, 2005

Tenderness  

 All around me, the sky with its deep shade of dark.
 
The stars.
 

The moon with its shrunken soul.
 
Can I become what I want to become? 

Neither wife or mother.
 
I am noone and nobody is my lover.
 

I am afraid 
that when I go mad, 
my father will bow his downy head 
into his silver wings and weep.
 

My daughter, O my daughter.
 

Originally Published in The 2River View, 10.
1, 2005
Copyright © Lisa Zaran, 2005