Long Pairings Poems

Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes - Marie’s-de-la-Mer

                  Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1888), Arles, June...

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Is also a metaphysics of integral co-relationships,
which would make an even worse title
for drawing you into
our shared land of bicameral consciousness.

Philosophy of scientific method
could also become
Philosophy of Beauty and Humanity,

You never know
this negative bipolarity
could turn...

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After a short illness keeping me off Soup, and a 50-year refrain from Prose Poetry, I was inspired by a Thomas Merton talk about Rilke to find the courage for this form again.

Shoe Dreams

Is there...

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a walker, I.


A walker fancying himself
a hiker, on a walk, self-narrated as
an expedition.

The incline is gentle, consistent,
insistent and yet i insist,
as i am inclined to do,
to think it steeper.
In fact, to think deeper,
about most things.

a...

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We big, tough, well-thinking male bearberries blew and we snarled and we spouted and we blew.

But those danged dandelions obstinately kept their tops on, no matter how much we did fuss.

Come on fellas, I said...

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You were placed on the planet 
to write rhymes
but to many times 
people tried to fit you
in between their lines  
Their prefect pairings
not caring or wanting to be fair or kind
They couldn’t possibly see...

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I turn to my girl highlighting Mayday is near
A day of spectacle that the whole village views
There's Jesters of folly and Knights without fear
Witnessing lances and jokes, always going askew

To view such we can venture...

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The night closes the windows, and
The sky has become a crystal house,
Shining crystal windows,
The Moon
Has sketched through them -
Through the entire alabaster sanctuary.
A single star was sending down
A crystal cable,
And passed its plough across the...

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The Palinend
the Palinend is a form of poetry that the last word of each line is spelled backwards from the last word of the line before.

as such it always has an even number of lines.
ideally...

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Death ...

Death is NOT the enemy
It is but the longest part of eternity
The essential part that gives life its preciousness and value
It is the body's rest, the spirit's release, and the soul's freedom
When we again...

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The Beer Drinker
Seven, the shop in the village closes at eight, something my wife 
needed...so ok. I took the narrow road the one that has trees on 
both sides it is a bit longer and...

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Artificial pairings forced friendships
and barriers of language, but seemed 
harmless, and without knowing me
painted letters in tidy rows
words on scented sheets signed with love
and read in secret.

Mother could be so distant
she must have known love...

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Ecclesiastes 3:1 [King James Version of the Bible]
 
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the 
heaven:

Prayer makes man human for in our innocence, we pray.
Knowing, that we're...

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trees dilly-O sing.
mellow skies surmise —
they’re not quite blue, white nor gray.

knocking in front and back —
pileated woodpeckers, shockers
with crests, crafty
to home owls and bats,
like royal courts of yore
dillydally the enemy within
mine walls.

the oaks shade...

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SETI

SETI is non-sense. Intelligences we have experienced visiting us in Unexplained Aerial Phenomena evolved so very, very long ago that any electro-magnetic radiation
They may have manipulated have long ago dissipated beyond the detection
Of our receivers.

We...

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His picture was fake, but she was truly PHAT,
Liking her, he messaged her to chat back ASAP.

While chatting, she was shown the guy's true image: “WTH?”
she texted back to her gal pal, throwing in -...

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Tinted glass whimsies 

Seductive slowly spun
kaleidoscopic pairings
changing in illumined awareness,
tinted glass whimsies

“How far can you bend the light?”

Sculpting temptation,
seeking colored fancies
in cylindrical designs
consistently different

“Do you dream in color?”

Mosaic contours flow,
prismatic burst of joy,
variegated vivid visions,
not...

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Our old clothes are stained rags,
Filled with holes, torn from snags,
Hung from bones since we were born,
Totally tattered and overly worn

But a new wardrobe has been bought,
Paid for with blood—that of the Begot,
Hung from a...

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Sweet Dawn Kisses

Woven patterns of
tapestry blushings,
threaded pairings of
non-metallic shimmering
wait beyond -

soft feathered breaths, hazed visions,
flowing on a pale horizon,
weeping within a forecast of darkness -
dreaming only of the light
draping gun metal skies
in effervescent brocade blooms

Moon...

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Pairings

Scotch and soda
Rum and coke
A bit of libation for all we folk
Thelma and Louise
Bonnie and Clyde
Renegades on a fatalistic ride
Bacon and eggs 
Mac and cheese
Comfort food, thank you please
Black and white
Black and blue
No comment here,...

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Blank sheet, taunting me 
Daring the person I used to be 
To blurt it out, let words flow free 
But too deep into my insecurity 
I have drowned, no hope for me 
What happened to...

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