Long Shaft of light Poems

I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?

The wind...

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This is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...

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A miniscule minotaur is a mini mayhem by the way. In a catacomb place ones feet in a small bowl then look in the mirror and sing to the shaft of light beaming down from...

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Japanese??

Here ... in Pearl Harbor?!? This must be a nightmare ...
It can't be real - I can't have seen that, yet here I am,
In my bunk cabin on the ship, with only a foot of...

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Hold That Thought in Faith

I know that there is something that surrounds me
Permeating through every living thing
In every blade of grass and with every atom
It speaks to me from the light
A light which is born...

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He was there, He told me so!
On that cloudy morning a few years ago,
When a shaft of light from the Montana sky
Fell on his grave and caught my eye.
The raindrops that fell as if tears...

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It's night now in harlem, time to explore
Snakes are diurnal, rats love their nocturnal
Life, the subway is a swinging door.
A cockroach crawls before it falls
Catalectic between the broken walls.
It's time to pay the rent and...

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In their youth two have met 
on a playgound with swings and sand.  
Their paths were crossed many a time,  
love blossomed to great dimensions 
Till the day of recognition when he said,...

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there are some parts of your personality
you must never look at
or Aristotle's logic will pay you a visit
for a 15th century anatomy lesson
an eye for an eye a throat for a throat
gargoyle armies hovering overhead
tongue...

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 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...

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It’s been a very reasonable day. Just a light shower or two
walking along these country lanes, round each corner, a different view.
But it’s getting late now and darkness will soon be here
there’s a haunting sound...

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Stacks of Aloneness
                            by Odin Roark

He wandered here...

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Journey Journal Page
CHANGE
By Leon Enriquez


Change comes around
In a pin-prick poke
Sharp as a hard yoke
Not much of a joke
Off-balance, aground


A shaft of light
In a piercing way
Broken in free play
In a dying slay
As distraught feel fights

~~~~~~~~~


An abrupt...

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In a world where hearts open and doves fly out
I'll ask "Take my hand, dance with me forever"
Motion creates motion, always fluid sensual
Floating in a realm of space from a word
Spinning faster and faster, as...

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Trapped! We're trapped!  Just as I reached the crest I felt Poker fall from under 
me and go head over heels down the other side of the hill. I scrambled to my feet 
and...

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          In the middle of the universe, I stand,
In a dream, I am fascinated by natural landscapes;
     Where nature reigns supreme in...

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Feel the silence therein
The stillness of a scent that permeates 
The scant wave that reverberates 
in what once faithful people called by name a soul
when shaking palsy— tremors the spotted head 
the mottled hand
That held once...

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From the darkest depths of life’s darkest season
The man could find neither rhyme nor any reason
He read the scrolls, the names they just passed him by
But a sliver of gold did then catch in his...

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 the very first time I saw you
you totally captivated my heart
never had any idea or single clue
but I’m already in love with you since the  start
just your name is such a beauty without...

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You are the one I have long waited for
The one who filled with love this empty heart
Who gave me meaning and courage once more
To follow life’s hazardous unmarked chart
And salvage dreams dashed on a rocky...

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the white language of snowfall lay
perfectly still where sunshine once warmed
a shaft of light pierces the evening tide of falling snowflakes
a point of reference for the weary footfall of
the man heading home
warm sweet home
his steps...

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My master's shaft of light is forbidding;
Still, I have enough sense left to keep hidden.

If he cannot find me, he will not hurt me;
my silence, a bold plea for safety.

Beneath the dank hay, prayer makes...

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never meant to get so lost
Stumble so far away from where I started
But I looked up one day to find
I recognized nothing around me
And my own reflection
Stared back with eyes so bitter and haunted
I wanted...

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I dreamed some day I would be a man 
Who was brave, and strong, and true.
I dreamed that in the years to come 
I might find someone like you.
You're a shaft of light in my...

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud" -- William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a life
bereft of joy by reason’s cloud
to sling invective like a scythe
from perched on high, lofty and proud.
Naught from my lips but bile...

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