(“Corpus Callosum", 2018, original encaustic)
Right Brain, Left Brain
Two halves of a whole
Complimentary opposites
Passive/active, imaginal/verbal
Figurative/literal, depressive/manic
Outside and within time
A master and his emissary
Inside us all.
Yet each of us have our own balance
Our own comfort zones
And range of tolerance.
Like a finger print
Within our brain
Leaving its subtle mark
On everything we think, say and do.
Viva the difference!
I say
While my right brain
Just watches, impassively
As thought bubbles form, drift and fade away
To an ambient soundtrack
Of invisible spheres…
(3/7/25)
Categories:
imaginal, humanity, life, mystery, perspective,
Form: Narrative
views are thoughts imaginal
construed, conjured
and as such
of no use
by touch
direct experience
organic form transmutes
then we know since we become
Categories:
imaginal, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The has been manifests results
In as imaginal
Each time he so dreams, he exults
Thinks he’s infallible
Like a dead man walking
Sees not ego stalking
Unendingly talking
We have seen
The has been
24-December-2021
Quietus
Categories:
imaginal, lost,
Form: Rhyme
"Do you know the legend of the cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to" - John Berger
tinnitus for the masses ring
an audible in summer sway -
a dog day's orchestration;
long awaited by hungry pangs
like the diners in Zhejiang...
peaceful crickets overwhelmed
yet patience pays for other days
when peepers and the katydids
will sing for food and song and lust
as instinct tells them that they must.
imaginal - sweet frenzied food,
too many years to satiate -
so famished are the years that dried
like the tears that left us there,
with appetite unsatisfied...
Categories:
imaginal, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ok, this is not PG
Babe
I am so BURSTING
I don't want to be illegal
but I want to break the rules
Love, I am tiring of being your best friend
I know this would upset you
but won't you please, PLEASE
upset me
If I pick a fight with you
will you have make up sex with me?
I fantasize about you
in every imaginal situation
position
lot's of violition
sinning beyond redemption
biting me cuz I'm itchin
nasty soliction
doin things badder than fiction
I am so bound up
wound up
wish you knew
how much
I want to just
to wake you
make the walls cry out again
Categories:
imaginal, husband, wife,
Form: ABC