Tag: Poetry

• Frame Works

  I have no conceptual understanding
  That might explain current events
  
  Under a general heading 
  To be delineated in seminar rooms
  
  That might be passed along
  In lieu of adequate genetic material
  
  To willing young minds eager
  For an alternative darker timeline
  
  Than the one previously given
  Either way the idea is to perpetuate
  
  The generations as required by natural law 
  Which is another theory I don’t have
  
  At least not one I’m willing to own up to 

  April 20, 2013

  Poetry

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• Shelter-In-Place

  Spring comes out of
  The mere imperative
  Of blind nostalgia
  For the future
  
  I spent the day
  In self imposed
  Lock down unpacking
  Books from the attic
  
  Onto dusty shelves
  Just pushing the dust
  To the back only to be
  Seen again if I move
  
  But I have no plans
  Of doing that
  Unless it is required
  By external events
  
  They say someone held
  A wedding in the park
  Yesterday in Boston
  Anyway so life went on
  
  Even though the streets
  Were so deserted
  If you tried you could hear
  The flowers bloom
  
  But there was no one there to try

  April 20, 2013

  Poetry

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• No More

  Most important events occur offscreen
  Or offstage
  
  Even though a trail of blood may lead you
  To a landed boat
  
  You won’t see the perpetrator as he is
  Carried off
  
  In an ambulance to be interrogated
  Out of sight
  
  Or the thought shapes or histories that led him
  To deliver
  
  A package that disturbed the crowd in such
  A heinous way
  
  Wreaking loss and mayhem and twenty four hour
  Coverage
  
  Even as the press converges in clear light after those digital
  Distorted strobes
  
  We will not ever know no never will we know what brought us
  To this place
  
  Of permanent unease even in a moment of triumph
  There remains
  
  These missing limbs this breath interrupted this construction
  Paper message:
  
  No more hurting people.
  Peace.

  April 19, 2013

  Poetry

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