Long Jaundice Poems

I was born fifty years ago on April 10th 1964
Looking back through the years I began to explore

My mama said when it was time for me to be born
I decided to come early and fast...

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Although certified in generic
and organic Permaculture Design,
my design and therapeutic development practice
follows a Taoist Integral Design School
of secular and sacred health care,
public and private restorative justice
exterior ecosystemic peace
and interior, body-embedded 
ego-compassionate,

I work cooperatively
and hopefully compassionately
listening...

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In depth, complexity, and transformation, reminding us that truth and understanding can be multifaceted and nuanced.


Hallelujah Truth and clarity: "Veracity...Case in point, point of the matter is"
Hallelujah Spiritual insight and awakening: "Awakened famished adjoined...Recompose spectrum...

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Rejection chain reaction
New Born Male Child
A babe suffering during while
A Mother who wanted her son to die
Heaven’s intervention rise
The new born experienced Asthma, Yellow Jaundice and Malnutrition 
The birth weight way below normal circumstances
Life surrounding...

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Look past
the faded little girl    braids and bows 
in a       polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt 
curtsying     a smile
frog prince 
imprisoned   ...

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8/22/21
"Nauseous"

Getting closer to Autumn
In deep thought near a marble column
Always doing things that lead me quickly into a coffin
Overlooked, abused and forgotten
Felt like I had zero in common
So I kept staying solemn
Because people are quick...

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Not in tea leaves, in shoelaces tie existence--their harsh and meshing material
bound, tethered, undone with a gentle pull. 
 
The bunny ears
and clumsy fingers bouncing along the faux-marble
hallways: the future politicians and CEO's and poets
wiping...

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I got bruises and imperfections. 
Addictions and insurrections.
I'm just looking for a place to find some rest.
I got goosebumps and yellow jaundice.
Ain't had a haircut since bout last August.
Wishing for a place to lay my...

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The senses of a nurse are many.
They are used to help, heal, comfort and console.

The healing "touch" we strive so hard to find initially soon becomes second 
nature.
The ability to relieve pain, even if we...

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It's a good day, though abnormalities made me pay,
Aching back, yellow eyes, pale nails, falling for the fever of jaundice,
Loosing game, turning backs, thundery nights, falling for the fever of your love 
Last benchers being...

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it was not so much that his liver had succumbed to cirrhosis

the jaundice had resulted from hard core assault on his brain

no rose-tinted spectacles would ever restore his faulty vision

myopia in itself was not a...

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fear seems to be the cause du jour
fear if it all just ended
shapes us like quivering jello molds

fear of the landline
tapping into our heads
fear of the landmine
careless gifts from the feds

electric shivers
primal and oozing
forgetting ripe...

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There was change, an odd pulse 
A new cadence, and tone, in the place I called home
where my mother had been
Where white fences stretched out to cradle a dream 
but where streams, unfamiliar, were on...

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New Beginnings in Stone 

Now rising from a silhouette stronghold stands in its shadow, a servant’s heart
Enters tenacious consecrated emptiness as hope ponders three distant pipes
When black crust lichen invades – enslaves - the mason’s...

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WHITE

Thumbs up for the whiteness of white, pure, 
natural or gently recreated on a dentist’s chair. 
How beautiful it manifests itself in smiling! 
Would I wish otherwise for me but to 
display it, giggling, in...

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Before you know my name 
You might want to know a little about me

I came from the land ends
From a bittersweet dream 
From the end of seasons
From beyond the future

I brought honey bees 
Ancient’s jaundice
But...

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Me: I’m sorry, I didn’t catch you name
Him:Yellow, but my friends call me Yell

Me: Say again? I’m somewhat hearing impaired 
Him: Yellow!! But my friends call me Yell!!

Me: There’s certainly no need to YELL at...

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—The sun in confined to a bed being seized with jaundice—

Although the neighbors and siblings were gone,
you and I most hold onto father’s arm for the sake of 
a deformed child’s fatality that couldn’t come...

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I made it out
To Castlereagh
By peddling
Along the verge
Banjo said
'tis the land of lots o time'
That will do me
Just fine
I seen lots of sheep
Wasn't sure if they were Conroy's
So enquired
Of Old mate
Standing
By his gate
108
In the shade...

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New Beginnings  

Now rising from a silhouette stronghold stands in its shadow, a servant’s heart
Enters tenacious consecrated emptiness as hope ponders distant pipes
When black crust lichen invades – enslaves - the mason’s ancient framework

Bits...

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Freckles fall from Tatters downtrodden countenance.
They fell like snow onto his chest below. Only one
landed on his nose, Rudolph-proud. He shared
Bozo’s hair - orange and red - a frenetic flair. Face
is narrow, pale - with...

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Until now, the skies were only blue or gray.
But today, wrathful Cacus set the sky ablaze.
Today, the spectral smoke choked ochre sky mirrors  
exploding wildfires unleashed below.

Today the tarnished jaundice sky measures
the crumbling Constitutional...

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The Gargoyle Yawns

The Fogwalker searches for clues  in the  moist darkness of early morning. The mist feels it's way through empty alleys and vacant lots. 
Cautious footsteps crackle from the gravel pathway lined...

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Mom
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

MOM !! 
My first shout out loud...

Where is my metal
When i am weak
Where is my coastline
From the deep...
Where is the fountainhead
Of our parenthood
Her heart is never locked
She rubs my ear
When I fear
With vow to...

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A sun reminds them through a dark cloud, 
long before we are even asleep, or the moon is awake
and they reply, like guardians of simmering,  
blossoming sunbeams, sprouting like wheat from cold concrete floors
A...

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