Sunday, April 27, 2008

Asunder















Spirit and matter in awkward dance,
Life but collusion, a waking trance,
Proteins carve out a space for one,
Child, Man, Woman, never redone,
Yet so fleeting.

Tenuous hold of mind over matter,
A brief breath, a glass that will shatter,
Ever dispersing the happy assortment,
Of particles, waves, a fated accordment,
Yet unlasting.

As mind doth protest, the body so frail,
Cohesion reneges, cell walls now fail,
As dreams, then memories like vapors flee,
Lost is the stuff that made us we,
Be flailing.

Hardening of arteries, hardening of hearts,
Fire in belly ember’s cool in fits and starts,
Slowing the dance of organs and organelles,
Muting touch, sights, sounds, and smells,
All failing.

Cytoplasmic walls fail, silver cord severs,
Proteins collapse--soul’s naked hereafters,
But love so intense can imprint the pattern,
Of the self, unbound from a darkened cavern,
Now sailing…

Where bodies not bound to the whim of cells,
Where selves are loved from and endless well,
And stories are rewritten and selves reborn,
And held again the ones once mourned,
In healing,
In hoping,
In God.

****Thinking about death, endings...

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Shimmer



















Groaning within groans and moans
Diaphragm lunging in atmosphere
Ear bones on drum deaf to all tone
Living in the high culture of fear.

Mind numbed with the dumb and numb
Digits curling to palms lustily grasping
Luridly coveting for a dusty crumb
Gaping, hoarsely and blithely gasping.

Warlord rumors blood thirsty war
Victory measured in widow barrenness
Murderous rage of the murderous whore
Undertaker logic, death grins -- more is less.

Waning ozone, waning trees, spirits and sprites
While short lived fat cats sated and satiated
Beauty chokes as stale laughter opiates the fight
Blase-lazy, never filled and fully sedated.

Crystaline shimmer hope shimmering
Slivering dark sky in crackling webs
Bullet whole light presence glimmering
Tide rising on a hope that flows, and ebbs.

Eucharistic life, wine, bread, body, blood
Dying, rising, bleeding, breaking needing
From the fresh dew upon a new rose bud
True parable of living swallowing dying.

****Another poem from about 1 year ago.

Love in the Dusk























Morning's mist begets the song
The winged chorus of the dawn
When horizon bleeds morning light
A new longing that all be right
And undivided.

Evening comes and daylight fades
And long grow the lines of shade
Horizon bleeds its fading light
The red hues will fade to night
And quietness.

Life ever continues in circling days
Like carrion birds whose only prey
Are creatures whose life is beaten back
Whose bones will whiten with the lack
Of fleshly life.

Youth and passion's embers wane
And love is lost when it is sane
Then age begins to take its hold
And death sculpts life into its mould
Of formlessness.

The embrace of love withholds this tide
The kiss of lovers that can abide
Side by side in life and death
Holding fast to every breath
Of otherness.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Constraints















Rolling, folding, ageless spaces,
Water and rock, earth remade,
Emblems of love's beatific traces
Colliding, collapsing, till Shiva is stayed.

Why can love not heal?
Why do we have to feel,
This weight.

Corneas, minds, yeah cells abhor,
Boys morphed into serial killers,
Sight of endless hate and war,
The bloody price of endless thrillers.

Why can life not gain?
Why this bloody refrain?
So numb.

Magic beasts now dumb retreat,
Smitten sprites vapors disperse,
Before the techno march of feet
Hungry void -- the endless curse.

Why are angels so quiet?
Why no heavenly riot?
Toward change.

Rumors of light beyond the cloud
Midwives mystics, and innocents,
Taste and see before bold and loud,
Squelch immanence and transcendence.

Why is what is most real,
Beyond what we can feel?
One hope!

***A Poem About the space around me...closing in...so it feels like sometimes.

Amen


















Elliptical wonder of space and time,
Spinning stars, nebulas sublime,
Dance macabre, dark matter specter,
Substrata presence to sweet nectar
Of photons to eyes,
Of sound waves to ears.

Birth, death of stars and simians,
Breath measured in years or eons,
Star dust, bone dust, shine down, gaze,
Souls lost, found, wander, graze,
In unwarranted beauty,
In states of ecstasy.

Proteins fire neurons at speed of light,
Selves, memories, dreams, will blight
As cartilage, bones, and tissues fail
Curbed spines, shrinking minds, so frail,
Await to close the lids,
Await their story's end.

First kiss, first lover, first epiphany,
Sacrament soul in polyphony,
Intimate as Oxygen within - without,
Grace to be gazing, aging, on this route,
Towards lands unknown,
Towards love unbound.

Pierced, despised, much maligned,
Worship, whisper, fully entwined,
Fire in the belly, fire in the equations,
Terrible in passion and in persuasions,
Towards faith,
Towards hope,
Towards love.
Amen.