Smalling Poems

Anatomy Of The Leg

...In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives 
taped to the tips of her feet.
The room is empty apart from a single man in a music box
He wears a black an white suit buttoned up to th...

Spring Reigns

...There’s a horse under
the Weeping Cherry. 

And the Sky is Crying
too. 

I’m sad that I’m happy today. 
The new greens are sprouting. 
It’s Spring. 
The upwelling tears are spouting. 
It’s ...

Maya Angelou

...Doctor Maya Angelou the writer
Maya Angelou the actor
Maya Angelou the poet
The singer that was Maya Angelou
That Black lady
With silk smooth voice
Like silk smiling under the finger’s touch
S...

Autumn Splendour

...Go love your rainbow falling from trees
Your spectral forests stripped of leaves
Stark branches fingering the sun's eye
The little deciduous garden waiting to die, and dappled ground appalled 
I will...

Singing Spheres

...dusk comes now
                            in dress of velvet snow
                 the last bang splintered fractals of light
            and set the universe to dance in day and night
  music made ...

Magic Carpet Tours

...Madam, your chariot arrives, of camel hair and silk
Sparkling like the pleiades, sweet as heaven's milk
And all around us whistling, willows wet with songs
That you and I adrift on a dream may beyond...

Reconciliation

...Let us, you and I 
Begin counting days 
Like cents 
Before the ice gets too thin 
Losing monuments 
Of what we were about 
Here take my hand 
I am a child 
Children teach from dreams 
God and man rec...

Sandcastle Heart

...Sandcastles by the seashore I build them
No more. Dreams are too frail to stop the sea
Of brokenhearts and misery; the gem
Of faith is love, but man is vanity.
We had no shelter from the brimming sun...

Lilly Pad and Frogs

...A tree mast broken
Changes pond to pillow fast ...
The frog is asleep

The lilly pad swims
And toad applauds toad in songs
The moon will rise soon 
 
Water turns to dream
Light kisses the heart  of l...

Inescapable

...I would away fly, but why dream
All I would leave  I keep to scream
The world is only me
And only I through the world stream
The farthest star is my extreme
Even more I'm lonely

It was so for God, t...

To That Special Sweetheart

...I figure I could honor you with these fresh
Flowers to form my heart's true delight in praise
I keep desire like butterflies in a mesh
For birthdays such as yours, to litter your days

With happiness...

In Praise of the Midnight Pearl

...Come midnight dark and in her jewel clumped
Set her bright Iskin's blackness to better shine
By being darker than your darkened lump
Where no distinction common eyes can find.
For my pearl is not whi...

Broken Gems

...A flower petal
Bloomed out against sky dancing ...
Humming bird hoovers

Wings and heart posing
On a pinnacle of leaf ...
The eye snapshots love

Leaking through slow leaves
Shadowing the humming win...

Easter

...Between an egg and the cross
I pause for a beginning
Quite different from my loss
Clean as a new born leaf
From a sprig of God
I am now the fallen sheaf

And he coming like my spring
Bring dead buds ...

All My Champions

...Here’s to all my champions, yes you, this is my thing
You are the yam, cocoa, breadfruit, cornmeal dumpling 
Pumpkin, dasheen, and potato, in my pot of soup
An excellent, poetic, supportive, pen l...

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