Rootless Poems - Poems about Rootless

... Written: April 1st For Legend Silent One contest Rumi Quote: Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ......Read the rest...

...Chinese translations Li Bai These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, who was also known as Li Po. Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain by Li Bai loose translation/int......Read the rest...

...The boomeranging echo deafening to receive retro rockets smoking with the effort to retrieve What dignity affords Approaching the singularity Where mathematics misbehave Infinitely distort......Read the rest...

...the moon swoons in enfolding arms of sky - a glassed-out world I cannot touch, seen through pain and this pane my four sycamores, sick to the core and wanting more than the moon-smitten sky i......Read the rest...

...Her words were rootless, they were buttercups churning in a cyclic wind; sweet if you like sweet, but never deep enough nor strong enough to be hurtful or loving, Her poems came with the bland sm......Read the rest...

...They are the “inklings” Of a thought Taking form Faint etchings Slowly scrawled Scratched out Born again In halting hope. A matrix of dots Roaming an arid plain Searching For shape, form......Read the rest...

...Home from the sea The night in the hallway paled into a yellowish screen showing a black& white home- movie ca. 1963 a memory time machine had sent him back to his years of youth to meet people......Read the rest...

...There, in our village, even today exists, A derelict bungalow which is in suspense lists; No village folk, its true history knows, The eldest, through tales, knowledge shows; Some, during British......Read the rest...

...The organic chemistry of memory is faster than light. it cannot be deleted, only defeated. That cellular crucible deletes itself by an entropy of catalytic reactions. Stop stoking the flames th......Read the rest...

...When a tree dries It becomes like a plea Of a mannerless woman. Roots feed and sustain The entire tree and branches; And its leaves, long or short. Such a dry tree Stands alive while d......Read the rest...

...World-weary, war-torn, weather-beaten A poet is but a beleaguered soul, A hopeless wanderer, a rootless wayfarer Misunderstood often Misinterpreted, ridiculed Scorned by his lady luck Spurned b......Read the rest...

...A gray haze above the mountain that blackened Trembling birch in front of the cliff The goose flies with haste to the south ......Read the rest...

...In the troubled times of the fifties, when the family was adrift in unrest, my mother strived to settle down secured, making a home in a land unknown. She gave a precious gift, a nest, ......Read the rest...

...Being older than I once was, inevitably places have changed, yet where I was born now looks like an alien city to me, it’s now a tourist destination for the ever rootless. Back then people were da......Read the rest...

...elysian adorned with faultless time-dream bits of insight trigger dim emotions memory gives warmness spooky how light needs haziness to thriv......Read the rest...