Saturday, November 21, 2009
Poetry
TESTAMENT I recognize My individual and unique humanity Forged to steel By years of fire Some brutal Some kind Most of them dire. Genetically planned obsolescence. A model of the failure of Creation. I recognize My strengths and virtues The progeny of original sin The mark I carry within. I strived...
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poetry
A COVENANT OF ONE I used to hear the American children play Down the street. A place that seemed so far away Another country. A strange place I was told never to go Alone. I’d sit on the curb. In the shade of grandma’s umbrella tree Where we would fly Low and high My fantasy and me. I was only...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Poetry
UNTITLED Fire in their eyes Steeds Dark as darkest night Free and bold No reins to hold Them back Palpitating panting strides In flame Electricity piecing through My brain Shocks of waves Red and blue Hooves striking stars On the attack Across the universe They steal me far away Past Heaven’s Gate...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
A poem revised
JUST THE SILENCE AND ME I sit in the stillness Of the early morning hours A little after three Wrapped tightly In a knit-wool blanket Ma made for me Before she passed away. I fade deep Into my leather easy chair Curled Against the morning chill No daylight cares No sad memories No fears Of what is...
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Poetry
THROUGH A PRISM.... Through a prism my thoughts flow Dancing colors of a rainbow. Imagination Hope Fantasy Carry me to places I long to be. Refracted lights of selected memory Daytime dreams And hopeless wishes Hypnotize. Lost in a silent stare I live reality of a different kind Kinder than the one...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
A reflection
OUT OF EGYPT [For my cousin Mohammed Omar] Saharah’s winds softly blow Through the narrow streets of Cairo. The blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea Whisper gently on Egypt’s shore. Now A strange shadow falls Over garden roofs and orange groves. Out of Egypt you did come Some One and thirty years...
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Poetry
THERE ARE STRANGER THINGS IN THIS WORLD, MY DEAR HORATIO… Suddenly Out of a dark corner Into your light Someone may appear From a thousand miles away To say “”Good-bye.” Or you may hear a voice call your name At twilight. A mystery Only few can see. Strange and holy happenings. Life in Death A...
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Poetry
THE DAY PAPA DIED It was a hot and humid day Just like it is today The day papa died. He called me from L.A. Early in the morning To say hello He was fine Missed and loved us all. I think he knew. I did too. Papa had called me many times before Through the years When he was at death’s door Asked...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Poetry
Devil on the rampage {Old tale told to me by my grandmother: Domanico, Cosenza, sometime during The Great War] I heard the wind cold Scream furiously against the window Pane. From the mountains the wolves came Scratching at each locked door. A woman *sick and old You see Was dying in the village...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Poetry
THE ARTIST To my sister Fantastic journeys rushing To places unknown. Shocks of color, Lightening forms. What is it that she knows That we don’t know Bringing us to realms Of beauty And Insanity. Magic and Imagination\ The holy litany of geometry. Reality in abstraction. Lyrics of her soul. Her...
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