Short Revelatory Poems

Basic'ly, it's this: 
the world is so so big
and I'm just too too small....

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Every poem tells a story…
To the reader
And of the poet
It’s revelatory, this little story…
Yet both reader and poet
Seldom know it!...

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In this world of heartless consumption

waste of human life to the whipsaw;

never did so little mean so much

when one lonely deer in a field

saw you and you saw him

nothing else mattered...

as neither blinked.


2 Feb 2021
All Yours (Feb 2) Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Wallace Stevens said: 
"Poetry is not personal."
He tried never to divulge
anything about himself
in his poems.

Or so he said.
But, the work 
is self-revelatory, veiled confessions,
repeated choices -- water, sea motion,
weather, the sky -- introspective isolation --
those silences and descriptive phrases
that communicate and characterize.

Human, 
no one -- especially not poets --
can really hide....

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THE  OTHER  GOD

It is a rare noise I hear. 
Those sounds that seem to say:

I could be a pond; or
Have been a reflection.

Knees that are forever bent 
Into a prayer of all things.

I am in each thing.
The aspect shown,

The one that is most needed.
The slope of spring untended,

While walking toward an answer;
always visiting myself in stranger’s clothes.

I don’t think anyone imagines 
quite enough these days 

To meet 
Their other God....

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