Irrigation Poems

Phoenix Arizona

...I have some fruit trees in my backyard. 
Cooler dawns we ripely say hello, sweet
and sour occasions~ the lemons you know.

With a little cooperation, fertilizer, a bit
more water when dry, I fin...

Feeder Lake

...Feeder Lake

There Is A Lake
Reserved For Silence.

And Nothing Left
   To Lose...

Where A Sky Blue
 Framing Border
   Re-Flects  
 Every Shiver 
   Stippled On
A Softened Shore...

T...

Still Blinking

...Cornfield aluminum recycled communion wafers.
We drank Gatorade wine from a stolen lunchbox,
sat Indian style in the irrigation ditch,
reciting Tool lyrics as scripture.

My IPhone had a cracked...

Spoken Tide

...Verbal 
irrigation
streams
that rush and flow
Tributaries
far and wide
messages
in tow

Watering
the wasteland
Arid lulls 
retreat
Freeing what
the silence hides
and reticence 
— defe...

Swing Empty, Swings in Breeze

...An empty swing sways, lilting loneliness in the breeze,
With no children in play, no laughter's squeal to please,
Its rusty chain creaks a forlorn squeak for days gone by.
Like lonesome clouds tha...

Drought

...

Blue skies and sun
    blue skies and sun
        blue skies and sun
 constant, only a few              
thin wispy clouds

and heat    	       heat		 heat   
sizzling, shimmering 
    on...

Phi Poetry of Reality In Dream

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   "I have seen and heard the vibrancy of dreams, 
and the way 
of the crossings-through the ills 
and through the barriered things."

A fleeting spark that perceives, 
I, have s...

Finding Fun On A Budget Part 3 - The Great Beef Jerky Ride

...Not an amusement park in sight 
So, we headed to the mountains 
No bumper cars, roller coasters,
Spinning cups, or dancing fountains
We diligently searched
For something to stimulate our hype
A...

Drought

...

Blue skies and sun
     blue skies and sun
         blue skies and sun
 constant, only a few              
thin wispy clouds
and heat    	       heat		 heat   
       sizzling, shimmering 
...

Ground All Around Safe and Sound

...in church congregate
our sins God did consummate
new life will be grrreat

when I cleaned up ground
it will look nice all around
being safe and sound

my house seems so swell
nice not lookin...

Scion of the Orchards and Fields, Part One

...A man-child they call Abie
    Name's Menachem Levy                    (Levi in Hebrew rhymes with Abie)

  A scion of the orchards and fields
    played 'soldier' with sword and shield

  1964...

In Praise of Mindlessness

...("Zero Point of Creation", 2018, original encaustic)

In Praise of Mindlessness

I’ve sought and found mindlessness in a variety of ways
From dancing to climbing, meditating and painting,...

Out My Window

...Like a sea, in front of my glass window, A vast field lay, 
Corns of wheat ballet-dance in the soft breeze all through the day;
Quails and pigeons, romantically, sit on them and sway,
Bees and fli...

Quill

...The computer era, indeed, has marred you and the pen,
A romantic feeling, when I think of you, fills my mind;
Will those Calligraphic times, the writers loved, come again?
Wherein, a feeling of ha...

Empty Swing Swings

...The empty swing
swings gently
in the gentle
breeze that wafts
across the empty
playground park.
The dust in the foot-pans 
beneath the swings
lifts up in the breeze,
swirls and curls in
a s...

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