#326 - two poems for godsbother - spectacular to be & live until we don't

 

23.xi.20

326

two poems

 

spectacular to be

for godsbother

 

here now

alive and all perceiving

concerned for

someone else must care

 

the past from which we dream now

strange languages come by

 

see yourself at it

mirror or not

a sky edge to

 

future vanishing as fast

 

time took to us

alive, all perceiving

 

a garden in my wilderness

 

and it consists

from somewhere

 

gauge temperature, humidity

mood, a turn of stars

 

and really just us

all entities proceeding

 

the looking out

and after of me

own two feet and spring !

 

just ask

though habits form from

 

over the tripwire

and elsewhere meant

 

might think that you’ve imagined it

but I don’t buy that lark

 

feel one world

suspect the others

 

I’ll ink it out for you

just thus

 

no sure

no certain knowledge

but that we’re here for now

 

 

 

 

live until we don’t

for godsbother

 

come touch tell

it’s everybody’s story

look ahead back

go breathless

 

it’s once in a lifetime!

 

imagining the world stops

that’s just one habit of a clock

 

think of the flying islands

 

ropes and pulleys tear along

 

time in its polished glass and drip

below beyond a threshold

 

then leavings are taken to season

no need for concern about that

 

never from ashes or until dust

how long?

so close

death comes

never notice

 

is it the spiral decline

or come for revelation?

 

take light to the top

 

straight as a tree is not

 

but here’s the way we’re back

pain ends if we do

no god-floaties

 

a river to the sea

 

and after that

you wouldn’t know

you wouldn’t feel a thing