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The day was unbelievably hot to a northerner, just about normal for a Floridian. Disney World opened at nine and after a steamy night cruising Kissimmee’s strip for burgers, we were ready for the crush (and I don’t mean orange soda.) The Ex, the kid and I, clad in shorts and tank-tops, were ready to enter the park with the rest of the scrubbed and buffed hoard.
shoulder to shoulder
the crowd surges forward—
babies scream
At seven, our son, Jamie was mad about Pooh (of course at this point, he was so stoked he was just plain mad as the Hatter in Alice!) We got through the gates in record time and rushed to the line for honey pot carts to Pooh-land. The line wasn’t long, most of the crowd was rushing Space Mountain, but my son was thrilled to be greeted at the entrance by non-other than Mickey Mouse! Mickey grabbed the wiggling tike by his red suspenders (Yes, I had him wearing suspenders!) and boosted him into the cart and off we went. Mom, Dad and boyo in search of the infamous Bear, Tigger the Tiger and Christopher Robin.
*Form haibun
Give me, oh give me that darkness from above:
let me drink just once from the river of your love.
Night never ran so strong through the trees,
waters never flowed so dark to the seas.
Music never stirred so deep in the earth,
winds never swept away Springtime’s rebirth.
Give me, oh precious, your life's saddest song
running in deep tides every night long.
Let me know, yes, tell me with your eyes,
what I think I hear shadowed in your cries,
spoken softly in your most questioning gaze.
Tell me what you said with such keening dismay
where whispers never uttered a syllable of sound
and moonlight kissed the sun-crusted ground.
Give me, oh give me that darkness from above:
let me drown forever in the river of your love.
Christopher M. Swan 2008
Modlitwa o wschodzie slonca
Kazdy Twój wyrok przyjme twardy
Przed moca Twoja sie ukorze
Ale chron mnie, Panie, od pogardy
Od nienawisci strzez mnie, Boze
Wszak Tys jest niezmierzone dobro
Którego nie wyraza slowa
Wiec mnie od nienawisci obron
I od pogardy mnie zachowaj
Co postanowisz, niech sie zisci
Niechaj sie wola Twoja stanie
Ale zbaw mnie od nienawisci
Ocal mnie od pogardy Panie...
--Jacek Kaczmarski
Dawn Prayer
To Your harshest judgments I resign myself
I am humbled by Your power
But protect me Lord from hatred
And shield me from contempt
Because You are boundless providence
The ineffable One
So give me refuge from hatred
And give me sanctuary from contempt
May Your wishes be carried out
Let Your will be done
But shield me from hatred
Deliver me from contempt, my Lord .
--translated by Christopher Johnston
You are the song my soul keeps singing,
the dreaming verse repeating in my heart,
the holy utterance persistent in my mind,
the light edging my every horizon,
the memory promising tomorrow,
the vision veiled before my eyes,
the sacred word echoing my every hope,
the blessing unsought but always found,
the wish I hold in earnest fulfillment,
the constant sorrow that gives me joy.
I’d rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul
than to enter heaven without you. Because of your love,
I will never be a lonely spirit.
–“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
Christopher M. Swan, “Song of Susan,” 2008
He starred in an episode of "18 Wheels Of Justice".
He died ten years ago today and his name was Chris.
He starred in a movie that is titled "Stunts Unlimited".
His fans were sad when they learned that he was dead.
When we lost him at the age of fifty-seven, we lost him too soon.
He starred in "The Dukes Of Hazzard" and "The Dukes" cartoon.
He was temporarily hired when the producers had to replace Luke.
I think that he did an admirable job when he starred as Vance Duke.
He starred in "Official Denial", "Raven" and "East Meets West".
He also starred in two episodes of "Xena: Warrior Princess".
He starred in "Liar Liar" and it's sad to know that he's gone for good.
He and Coy fought the system like a two modern day Robin Hood.
[Dedicated to Christopher Mayer (1954-2011) who died ten years ago today on July 23, 2011]
There once was a man named Galileo.
To him, scientific knowledge we owe.
He was the brainy inventor
who said, "the earth ain't the center."
I guess that was his basic ideo.
There was a lady named Cleopatra.
She was sad, so I said, "what's the matta?"
"Caesar was stabbed by a brute."
Then, Mark Antony said "You're cute!"
And Cleopatra said, "right back at 'ya."
You may remember Jiminy Cricket.
His puppet said, "I sure like to lick it".
He warned Pinocchio,
"Wherever you may go,
be very careful where you may stick it".
Jiminy Cricket's first lesson for you
is he coulda lived to a hundred two,
but the sign said "don't walk",
so he stood there to gawk.
Now, that's him on the bottom of your shoe.
Christopher Columbus thought the world, round.
The King of Spain, thought his mind, not sound.
The Queen said that what he states
convincingly penetrates.
Chris now has ships to sail the world, around.
As my life just keeps on going
Each day I meet a few
It may just be a poet
And it may have just been you
There's plenty that I meet here
On this lovely poetry group
I'm talking about the people here
That I've met on Poetrysoup
There's Arturo and there's Christopher
And there's Rich and Charlie and Sue
There's Silent and Broken and other wonderful people
I'll mention to you just a few
There's Artsie, Darlene and Caren
And someone who calls herself Eve
And I'm sure I'll meet a quite a few more
Before my pen has to leave
I've become good friends with some others
Like Maria, Carole and Jan
And I can't forget Jim and Viv
Anne-lise and my good friend Leanne
Just as light moves through darkness,
Not the other way around,
So health moves through my mind
Into every region of my body.
Just as blood reaches my limbs,
Nourishing and refreshing tissues,
So enlightened thought travels
Into every molecule of my self.
Just as dawn arrives each morning,
Not because I travel to it,
But because the earth I inhabit
Has turned beneath me while I slept,
So freedom comes rising in my limbs,
Lifting cell by cell the power of life
Into the full shining radiance of love
Given to me again each morning.
Just as the universe of dark emptiness
embodies regions where light travels
Undeterred, so among the atoms
Of my body freedom flows,
Releasing energies unimaginable to me
But ever-present in the makeup
Of my boundless mind ... itself
Made up of universes undiscovered.
Now I see what never occurred to me,
Fields of light effortlessly reaching
Everywhere I have feelings, everywhere
I can consider who I am.
Now the morning rises in my body
And my self: my mind yields up
The light and wisdom that I give
To myself and every creature.
I am not the slave of feelings,
Nor the instrument of pain:
Divinity plays all my stops and strings
With melodies heard everywhere I go.
I am not suffering. Suffering is itself,
A thing apart, a dream, however real it seem,
Still a dream from which I waken,
Because I am the new morning
Of my every upspringing thought,
Upsurging yet serene, to which darkness
Must yield, before which, pain must fly,
Leaving me untouched, unconfused, unfazed,
Remembering only who I always was:
The image and the likeness of that light
That brought me here so that everyone might
Clearly see what and who they always are.
Christopher M. Swan 2009
Let's fade together into wordlessness,
And find once more the reappearing
Of what's come and never gone,
That which never was and always is
And brings the waiting moments
Out beyond the pathless path
To the laughing never death
That keeps us both together still,
As the morning light arrives,
Remembering when we said goodbye
It was only to remind ourselves
That two souls having become one
Never to part from that which always was.
So, we shall be the love that remains
When all strife has come and gone,
And memory is only the wish
For that which has been given us
To embrace forever in our hearts.
Then, we'll see each other always among
The shadows and the light that hold
The peaceful loving of today, tomorrow,
And the undimmed radiance of yesterday.
Let's be together in that one mystery
Which separate forms can never reach,
The kiss of morning, embrace of night,
The always loving tenderness
That puts fear and pain to flight.
May we be what always we have been,
Everything love has ever asked for
Come to greet the day again.
Christopher M. Swan 2009
There is something in the sea that is raging war against thee. The explorers of times knew what was divine; they explore the four corners of the earth to dig up all the dirt, they knew about the existence of life and they made decades of human sacrifice, exploring the unknown at sea, fighting with big waves, that sometimes rise up from the ocean floor and covers their ships, forcing them to take a sudden dip. Sometimes they lost the entire fleet to rough weather and rough waters, and if they get lucky, they beat the pirates at their games, and their lives was never the same.
Christopher Columbus in his time understood the geography of the world, he discovered the island for Europe and discovered much of the West Indies but did not make it to the East indies
it was for Vasco da Gama to explore and the Europeans to ignore. India had spices and the British knew how to roll the dice. India had tea but Columbus died before he could exchange, European coffee.
There is so much in this world except for men, women, boys and girls. The world could not remain as it is so the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the English made a fortune from it and create much fuss over it. They are the old rogues of the sea, and they have the right remedy for thee. They were good seamen of the past; they knew the length and breadth of the sea and the music it plays for thee.
The weather has changed and exploration is not the same; there is an emulsion in the sea, so don’t let it covers thee. Read the lines clearly and examine the color of the waters, when the texture changes search the submarine below and it will lead you to the next row.
I open the space in the ground, to see what was coming into the town; there were two pipes along the strait, one that leads to another gate. Examine the emulsion in the sea and correct the PH chart for me; there is a two-phase system that is colliding with thee.
Check the emulsion in the sea.