**ADDENDA 23
Watt verse
so terse
AFTER STYLE OF SAMUEL BECKETT ADDENDA 23(first posted Aug 2017)
to go or stay
or runaway
avoid delay
of my being here
of my being there
of leaving now
wondering how
of roundabout
of hereabouts
of this residence
a missing presence
in this empty house
in this empty mind
in making decisions
to just unwind
of being unable
to decide about
coming home
come home
to a empty house
with a empty mind
and not being able
to just unwind
to go or stay
or run away
without delay
10/23/2023
A loving family that cherishes the universality of you.
An addenda are friends, who accept you as you are.
Seeing you as complete, not a cracked,cookie jar.
God is, to you, One, the Creator of life and Universe..
You do not live in Faux City, overcome by hopeless vanity.
You simply write to communicate the true you, to humanity.
Poem 4
“In My Own Voice’
SAMUEL BECKETT addenda 23
The scene,translucent
transformed now seen
and heard
Each inflection
injected with a pregnant pause
where accent and dialect
and emphasis
brings clarity of thought
Voiced alone,
words once dead,
black on white,
now rest
within the hearer’s ear
Once imagined sounds,
a unique reality
to go or stay
or runaway
avoid delay
of my being here
of my being there
of leaving now
wondering how
of roundabout
of hereabouts
of this residence
a missing presence
in this empty house
in this empty mind
in making decisions
to just unwind
of being unable
to decide about
coming home
come home
to a empty house
with a empty mind
and not being able
to just unwind
to go or stay
or run away
without delay
After the style of addenda 23 by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett ADDENDA 23
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to go or stay
or runaway
avoid delay
of my being here
of my being there
of leaving now
wondering how
of roundabout
of hereabouts
of this residence
a missing presence
in this empty house
in this empty mind
in making decisions
to just unwind
of being unable
to decide about
coming home
come home
to a empty house
with a empty mind
and not being able
to just unwind
to go or stay
or run away
without delay
After the style of addenda 23 by Samuel Beckett
A handsome stud passes me on the street
He winks, I blush, he stares at my cute feet!
WOOHOO
Next, a shirtless man, in the noonday sun.
I nearly melt, like a melting, cinnamon bun.
WOOHOO
1/10/2023
~ADDENDA~
Poetic Form is the Dixdeux, an alternative form of Haiku.
Developed in 1970.
Syllabic, with 10 syllables per line for two lines, followed
by two syllables.
Unrhymed!
Has a title, unlike traditional Haiku.
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Midnight storns, trees like toys, fall.
Cars, houses, so crushed.
Where to hide?
1/9/2023
* ADDENDA *
Poem Fom ……Qiunzaine
Line 1……7 syllables……describes scene
Line 2……5 syllables……emotive expression
Line 3……3 syllables……asks a question
Image. Will be posted at 9am. Some cities under evacuation orders! PR
……Chicken Salad and Dandeloins……
Alas, corn on the cob, cool drinks, gone!
Our choice summer, sang its last song.
Children had their day in the hot sun.
Sandcastles alone, one by one.
Baseball diamonds bare of loud cheers.
No loud shouts for “cold beer, here”!
Firecrackers, feet dug in sand.
Nor a dance, by our city’s band.
Not one silver kite, will shine on high.
Farewell, soft, endless, summer skies!
Fragrance of our beloved flowers,
We shall smell in chilled, winter’s hours!
10/29/2022
Quatrain A,A,B,B
8 words/line
Addenda~ Leader of Great Books of the Western World said:
“ This reminds me of Thomas Wolfe and Ray Bradbury,”
Samuel Beckett so stylish
poesied in French& English did insist
My youtube *tribute 'to go or stay'
a parody of Addenda 23,I would say
*Spoken here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGl9Qwu66ys
Spherical vision
Little by little,
see how fears whittle
away at our soul;
joy that ego stole.
We are not body
nor dark thoughts shoddy;
rather, living light,
throb of bliss delight.
Ego’s agenda,
desire addenda,
we hold in contempt,
as impulse unkempt.
Exit hypnosis,
is our prognosis ~
soul unresistant,
to the bliss current.
14-May-2022
Shifty eyes, hidden agenda
Voice of conscience stifled
Endless desires, new addenda
Worthless objects rifled
Spiralling confusion
Dungeons of delusion
Until head-heart fusion
Our heart sighs
Shifty eyes
12-March-2022
Quietus
We see all around us duality,
endless pairs of opposites in motion,
attachment to which, joy fatality,
so still attention in meditation,
ending needless thought flow agitation.
Abiding thus in thought rested stillness,
boundaries blur; we entwine with oneness.
Delusion ends, as ego disappears,
emptiness replaced by bliss in fullness,
ending erst fears, as God’s presence so nears.
Our vaporised self, has no agenda,
as we thus become a conduit divine,
complicating not life by addenda,
head-heart meld, with love pulsations align,
playing our earth role, as God does assign.
Quirks of fate, akin to a Ferris wheel,
yet both highs and lows hold equal appeal,
since we liken life to a lucid dream,
undiluted remains our zest and zeal,
as life images continue to stream.
28-October-2021
(HMS syllable counter used)
Operative phrase ‘the last one’, a thought
Lower mind contracts, whilst higher has fun
Let us spiral not, in narrow thought slots
There is no doing, which needs to be done
Happy child at play, has no agenda
Each moment complete, basking in the sun
In life, goalposts shift, adding addenda
One step at a time, a better option
Dance uninhibited, free from stigma
Ego borne desires, in agitation
Each new craving, said to be the last one
Specious logic, hypnotic delusion
Have the last one for the road, said someone
More oft than not, feral instincts prevail
There seems no hope, until we come undone
Life a seamless flow, wherein we all sail
Pure uncluttered heart, claims the holy grail
30-November-2020
(syllabic Terza Rima)
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