Saturday, December 31, 2022

Mode 33

You can do your own math
Art doesn't work alone
It doesn't create something new
An understanding never intended
Math doesn't need an audience to be discovered
How we would talk to unknown intelligence
A golden record of mostly math floating through the cosmos

Down certain ravines there are answers
From certain height we can see

I need a sunny day
Flower to fill my poems
A woman no one dreams of
Starlights to set the scene
Nothing I need to understand

This moment I steal myself
No contradictions to resolve





Bosnian Siren

Siren sounds so beautiful
Children won't you cry
And it's so lovely to see
Which eye could be dry

Laughter and the thunder falls
Sorrow to the sun showers down
What could be done to the rain
Who will now take their pain

Further then you will go
Closer then you'd like to know




Hello, Again Hello

I am still standing here
Waiting and hoping still
Moving on just to say hello
I walk away just to return

All my roads still turn again
Ever more I am just the same
Learning more to learn again
I live now just to be alive

I am still standing here
Dreaming and waiting still
Continuing on just to share more
I walk away again today

Moving on just to say hello
I walk away just to return

No Past

It was the great fire
I could see nothing else
It was the right fire
Burning into me
And I could see
And I could feel
It was the light on me

They said it couldn't burn forever
But I don't know what that means
With my fire still raging
There's no end to my sight
And if it leaves
It will be no more
That's all it will be

It is the great fire
That has no past
And all you can say is it won't last

Walt Whitman Passed my Window

There is a road outside my window
I have watched it with interest
In the shadows I spied a wonderful parade
Those of wisdom and ignorant of themselves
I only dream of where they continue to
I looked out my window long enough

I will chase after everyone I have seen
No matter how far away they have been
I will not watch one more pass me by
There is no house that has enough comfort for me
No mattress has any wonder to hold me still
They have not built the building to my dreams
My dreams were built around their buildings

Don't talk to strangers
The moon and stars are strange and strangers
What of this Earth is not my brother
Who of this universe is not my sister
Where on this road is not a miracle
When will a miracle ever fail me

I'll sing of the open road with him
And I shall stick by him long as I live

Hallow Brown

Would one more word be
Alive fill in where void
Meaningless waters the sun
Grey upon the skies
That travel homeward
Searching of lost phrases

Ones I must have been
Would there collapse
Leave rushing to the scene
Fill places of sun
End nights they follow here
With words I could describe

Searching for lost words
Ones there must have been
Phrases of clear colors
That travel homeward
Grey upon the skies
Meaningless waters the sun


Saturday, December 17, 2022

White Christmas

The first roller coaster entitlement and guilt
Whiter even more than snow
When you don't know just believe that you do
We learn a hard way

What teaches me is resources
Why they preach scarcity tells you all 
We have enough for everybody
Not everybody wants 

Most of them are white