Long Fanfares Poems

For old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for « some » other giants - Part One

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Excitedly we travelled to the fair.
   As fragrant scents of flowers filled the air.
   Dawns gift of light showing sights enthralling.
   Dewdrops mirror, broken pearlstrings falling.
   Sunshine...

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She came upon me in a dream deep down from within my destination

Which coursed the mind and soul of years for my memories' inspiration

The path was crowded with bouncing hooves and wagons decorated

With fantasies ornaments...

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At the breakdown of ages man disappears and reappears
In the form of an easy-to-use scheme
Over the last half-century, man has been replaced
By technocratic ideas of what a man is
But the real man can no longer...

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22.
I come to know an angel’s charms, 
you are starlight within my arms. 
in my heart, there are no alarms.
You are my everlasting spring, 
your soft smile makes my heart to sing, 
the glory of...

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Olive was vibrant and deliberated in awe in front of her wardrobe

Should she put on that glorious fox pelt for the night’s Hunters Ball

Surely it had to be politically correct and she would claim her...

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The trees and the hills are singing songs of blessing in your mother’s land paving into Kingdom of love banging into healthy situation to welcome you. My brother I have been crying for you for...

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In war, no glory confides absolutely.
Or is resolute in its righteousness.
Its essence holds no certainties nor goal...nor future.
Clear objectives fade... Justification merely a work in progress.
Clandestine agendas drive enmity across air, sea, sand and meadow.
Misdirected.
Towards...

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Maestro – 4-23-24
Dedicated to Dr. Stanley Chapple.  Co-founder of Tanglewood. Conductor of the London Philharmonic.   Head of the Music School University of Washington.  Conductor of the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra....

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Racists beat some other racists, bigots hate some other bigots
Gunman kill some other gunman, thieves deceive some other thieves
Politicians of both parties share the views that must divide them
But they hate each other madly, cause...

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By middle age he became unseen and hatless; 
would not look at the back of his head
as he slipped by unnoticed 
through a changing world.

It was some recompense 
that his Idea of ‘self’ had expanded;
a...

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Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings
Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork –
 Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas –
  Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart pacing crescendos
Spring’s soothing birdcalls after tympanic thunder.

Measured tempos of rhythms search...

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From somewhere, out of nowhere, dared she walk this way, 
Glide in silk swathed ambience and reaching with a smile, 
In scent of spiced magnolia, beseeching all the while, 
With the logic of a goddess...

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Cuts like a knife
Destroyed my life
Now i’ll never
Be your wife

You played your games
For 20 years
Whilst i grew old
And felt the fears
A lonely life
Brim full of tears.
A cruel encapsulation.

You are free
And i am not
So now you’ve...

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transference

mind field in transit

lost in modern translation -

translucent echoes


bog snorkeling

in trenches of fear

submerged breathless for glory -

mud medals and God


mushroom cloud

trench foot ankle deep

fanfares baptize innocence -

bugles sound defeat


cross fire

rising from ashes

foot marks lost on...

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HARMONY OF THE WHOLE
fruitful dialogues
   prolific
in a  multitude
     of exchanges
 of latest trends
circle&
   orbit
the primitive
as aspects
     conjure
   intense moods
&
surface &
     level
by observation
  this profound
but transitory
intimacy
    is the soul
of things
  that isolates
the ephemeral
&
ends in synthesis
with an
   ecstasy of fanfares
so
delicate
   an extravagance
yes
  it essentially
bestows
   a mystical conception
of
recorded thoughts
        dissected

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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By middle-age he became unseen
as he slipped by unnoticed
through a changing world.

When down town,
he walked unremarked among
the throng
though he clearly heard
fanfares, and the regal cry of celestial eagles
announcing his presence everywhere.

Head up he strode past...

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Like debris then that clutches rolling logs,
this fit of time ensnares like demogues.
What e'er was wholesome, now in total fog
does placate for it's venture, fanfares bog!

Aye, celebrate the venture, 'morrow's clog
will by the neck's redemptor's...

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This is the season when the forest has winter coat on
  Where does frost smoke come from
  Is it our angels morning yawn
  Sunlight comes as little fanfares from the cello tones
...

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