In what way shall I improvise myself?
Shall I memorize the first way I felt?
And my origin from West Africa
Through the European landing in hell?
Jelly with a honeysuckle belly
Make it catch like rhythm that unfolds
Unremembering the hell til it tells me
Live like I act like a story untold.
Ragtime Naptown bands in syncopation
Dixieland Creole bred pause for the cause
Sax make it take it banjo behave it
Clarinet trombone tuba and guitar
String bass and pluck mashing in your face
Swing like I tap dance on boogie shaped clouds
Ella King Vaughn touch it fast then it shake
Mean as a blues song on turn it up now.
Then I gain recognition streams freed me
On to an atonal sound without bop
And I'm not in any definite key
Remembering not remember locks.
Categories:
unremembering, memory,
Form: Free verse
It’s true, I have forgotten you, Elaine,
Utterly, as leaves when leaving summer trees
Die unremembering, as they coast along the breeze
Toward autumn ground. No souvenirs remain.
Blurred images efface and fade. I cannot see your plain
White dress, bedecked with flowered fineries:
Poppies…yellow, orange, with Death-dark centers. Please
Believe my love’s dissolved, drowned in Fall’s grey rain.
Through dimming years I’ll rarely, any more
View you in my imaginings. Your summer-tinted hair
Of golden tawn recedes. My lust cannot recall
Your criminally-carnal figure, or
Your rose-flushed mouth. Romance lies in Death’s lair.
In autumn’s pall, I have forgotten all.
Categories:
unremembering, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, introspection, lossautumn,
Form: Sonnet
In the midnite of earth's noon,
Sun's shadow blackens the moon.
Silver shades of pale desire
Are consumed within its fire.
Adrift in darkness of death,
The burnt moon struggles for breath.
Unremembering the plight
Desire brought, it slays the night.
This envious moon of sky
Sighs with dispassionate eye:
The sun too will one day die.
Categories:
unremembering, introspection, nature, philosophy, moon,
Form: Rhyme