Friday, 25 February 2022

#784 - between the legs

 



26.ii.22

784

3.57

between the legs

senzuri, manzuri

 

day’s secret corners

the wonders of the world

 

between legs

where the mind often wanders

sniff

culpable

consenting

 

pillow to pillow

any prop

 

and more for some

and some for more

where more are from

and all

 

come hither!

 

look under carriage to ascertain

aha, and carry on

 

leg over

plash

oars in

 

between us

no holds barred

but bull at gate

 

(pictures never do justice)

 

of the china shop

stormy teacup too

 

the joy weep wet

stallion hung

and brood

cosplay

 

at the magic places

forest, rug

shy steam clefts

telepathic too

tracing finger over bone

 

make rude

between the legs

whatever equipment there is

 

touch of the willing and want

a craft of endless hours

 

handful, mouthful

much to be desired

 

then slow

rub until arrive

 

and tell me…

what’s said in bed

stays there

 

whisper in beyond of words

here’s rose of all the world

at once

and dock …

so rhyme

 

like it licked, who wouldn’t?      

 

sway

rhapsodic

faster

hearts fail

and some are lost for good

 

damp rising

oddities of whim

perhaps

press here there

everywhere

arrive

 

it’s all in

learn to swim

 

perhaps if we have been before

an after under blanket touch

where everyone’s just toes






esperanta serio #210 - tra ĉiuj aĝoj de la tago

 




210

tra ĉiuj aĝoj de la tago

 

aparta arbo falas

duonvoje

nur por esti tenita

en membroj plej proksimaj

 

la aĝgoj estis alta vento rakontita

 

birdoj alteriĝas

nenio malfortika

branĉetpinto

ekvilibrigi

verma beko

 

folio tenas sian tuŝon de ĉielo

 

tra aĝoj de la tago

 










 

through all the ages of the day

a particular tree falls

half way

just to be held

in limbs next of kin

 

was a tall wind told

 

birds light

nothing precarious
twig tip

balancing

worm beak

 

leaf keeps to its touch of sky

 

through ages of the day


 


Thursday, 24 February 2022

#783 - too much czar

 




25.ii.22

783

3.56

too much czar

poem for Ukraine

 

From Russia there came just a widow’s veil
For her dead to bewail
In her widow’s veil
From the far-off Russian land,
From the far-off Russian land.

– Brecht

 

Sudetenland, now next day Anschluss

things are faster these days

reminds me of a computer game

back in the seventies

map’s too messy

better join the dots

but I can’t remember the name

 

it was ‘do unto others’

something like

 

56

68

22

bingo sovietski!

 

what eye brows?

what moustaches!

 

simply not being a Nazi

is setting the bar too low

 

too much czar for one country

 

borders are portable

like socialism

rumble of tanks

have we been here before?

 

chase fur across a continent

clumsy big bear paws

beautiful metro        

Alaska long gone

 

not being Stalin isn’t enough

there’s a familiar whiff

 

Laika’s still round and round

all fur and bones

orbits all decay

 

Tchaikovsky

Dostoyevsky

Tolstoy

Rachmaninoff

 

one of them was terrible

Catherine had a horse

 

none made the golden record

 

we remember

culture is to conquer

how can we stay at home?

 

and there are those dolls

each a picture of docile weakness

one within the other

you have to weep for mother

what she has suffered

what she’s suffering now

 

Imre Nagy

Alexander Dubček      

 

haven’t we been here before?

Afghanistan’s a nice picnic spot

dedicate kalashnikov

to your very own mujahidin  

 

too much Rasputin

too much czar

 

drunk on anger

angry drunk

projecting all that calm

we’ll learn to love the motherland

 

Smert tyurme, svobodu protestu

 

here comes the comedian

where’s Pussy Riot now

when we need them?

holy of holies

 

czars can’t take a joke

czars have such big paws

 

Zelenskyy – servant of the people

television comes to life

will you get it into the box again?

 

the least one now will later be gone

hitch up to the celestial wagon

 

turn the vodka back into potatoes

it’s never too late to laugh

 

everyone was a Cossack once

there’s one less nation now


 








esperanta serio #209 - diferenco kaj ripeto

 



209

diferenco kaj ripeto

 

rigardu supren!

tio estas la plej bona vidlinio

ili diras "memoru de kie vi estas"

 

la babilado amasiĝas kiel folioj

 

laŭvice de la trako

kiel la branĉeto fleksiĝas al la venteto

ĉiuj ĉi difinaj artikoloj

strangaj signoj

kvazaŭ antaŭsignita

 

oni ne multe memoras

sed kiel la aferoj estas tenitaj

kiel rigardo en via okulo

aŭ ajna malnova amtrabo

per la lumo, pri kiu mi konas

mi multe revis por esti ĉi tie

mi sonĝis longe longan vojon

 

bezonas tiom malmulte da tempo por malaperi

neniu el ni

ne du momentoj samaj

 

ĉar ni neniam estis antaŭe

kaj neniam plu veni

 

 






 

difference and repetition

 

look up!

that’s the best line of sight

they say ‘remember where you’re from’

 

the chatter piles on like leaves

 

in turns of the track

the way the twig bends to the breeze

all these definite articles

strange signs

as if foreshadowed

 

one doesn't remember much

but the way things are held

like a look in your eye

or any old love beam

by the light of which I know

I dreamt a lot to be here

I dreamt a long long way

 

takes so little time to vanish

no two of us

no two moments the same

 

because we've never been before

and never come again