Friday, 29 December 2023

#1459 - a frolic


 

1459

4.363

30.xii.23

a frolic

on clouds

for a field guide to Australian clouds

 

or in among

and sometimes seated

as if to tea

 

one dances

disquisit

 

and you get a taste

 

not sugar floss

but something subtle

 

as if they were woken day bright

when hung among the stars for dark

 

then morning with the godbeam

and now the blue reprimes

 

so smudge cicada wavelength

 

wish washup upon reflection

where arrange your day around

 

and pale to far beyond

 

what leaf can reach but misting?

 

they are a ghost-light flit

 

arrange their own erasure

 

each as ambiguous as any

 

on the way, just as we are








esperanta serio #851 - arbaro de vortoj pri la arbaro




 



851

arbaro de vortoj pri la arbaro

 

tempo estas la malfermo

tempo fermas butikon

 

osto branĉo kolektiĝis

elmontri

 

vortoj projekciitaj

brilis tra vortoj

 

vigla pro miro

nenio tute kvieta

 

floro tenanta nin

ĉirkaŭ mia ĉapelo

 

tempo estas la malfermo

tempo fermas butikon

 

vortoj super vortoj, sub

vortoj flosantaj

 

flugiloj celas

iuj forgesitaj muĝadoj

 

tiu ene senskribigita

ĉizetas

 

ne estas voĉo en ĉi tio

por vivi en la arbo

 

devas kavigi min

tempo fermas butikon

 

tempo lasas nin esti

 



 




  

 

a forest of words concerning the forest

 

time is the opening

time shuts up shop

 

bone branch gathered

to expose

 

words projected

shone through words

 

vivid with wonder

nothing quite still

 

flower holding us

all around my hat

 

time is the opening

time shuts up shop

 

words over words, under

words floating off

 

wings point

some forgotten roar

 

the one within unscripted

whittles

 

there isn’t a voice in this

to live in the tree

 

must hollow myself

time shuts up shop

 

time lets us be

 

 

 

 

 


Thursday, 28 December 2023

#1458 - how to create an empathy vacuum

 



1458

4.362

29.xii.23

how to create an empathy vacuum

 

demand all

 

be victim –

there’s your first commandment

 

‘I’m the victim, not you!’

 

say ‘no one else can understand

no one knows my pain’

 

and it’s true

but can you see out of this?

 

remember always what they did

and whether or not you’ll ever forgive

 

it’s just a thing we say

 

ignore facts

 

think of what they would do

 

dash hope

because it leads to love

which is an all between

 

paint the world into its mean corner

this was done to you

 

snarl back

and bite

 

could make a nation of it

take up the higher ground

 

lie in your cot

and mourn sleep with worry

 

roll self up in a tight little ball

 

refuse to take the pills

 

go grimace

 

fly flag over

 

death for an enemy

 

all of this can be done in pyjamas

 

imagine that this is the past

you’ll have to imagine the past while you’re at it

 

keep the claws sharp

scatter the eggshells

 

sign yourself useless

to all intents

 

they don’t matter

are they even people?

a people?

 

admit to nothing

stick destiny

 

always expect someone else to amend

 

never grow up

be free

 

never be sorry for what you will do

 

know that there are good days too


 







esperanta serio #851 - ankoraŭ kapturniĝas pro la turnigo

 




851

ankoraŭ kapturniĝas pro la turnigo

por la horzonoza serio

 

ie marteladas

iu ronkas

 

glitis inter tagoj

por memori

 

tiktako

 

ĉi tie oni mondon konscias

ĉiuj aliaflankaj

 

trempi en

supro de la kapo ankaŭ globo

 

malnovaj lertaĵoj vekiĝas

grandparte ŝajnigante

 

imitado la plej altan laŭdon

 

faru matenon kie mi estas

por ruliĝi kiel pilko

por esti rondigita

 

etendiĝu por rektigi

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

still dizzy with the spin

jetlag series

 

somewhere is hammering

someone a snore

 

slipped between days

to remember

 

tick tock

 

here world aware

all other sided

 

soak in

top of the head a globe too

 

old tricks awake

largely pretending

 

imitation the highest praise

 

make a morning where I am

roll like a ball

to be rounded

 

stretch to straighten out 


Wednesday, 27 December 2023

#1457 - in the language of continuous line

 



1457

4.361

28.xii.23

in the language of continuous line

 

elephant if

crenelate

cast cloud

 

threads to bent flower

for passion of intensity

light touch

 

so a city blooms

and blur where

hear the strings

 

often merely a matter

some sun around

rotating

 

convenient

and on own axis too

in an old cause

 

take to the page

pile temple high

fine coarse

 

lean to achieve

take a full moon up

let soak here there

 

fight the hunger stretch

of course there’s complication

double back

 

tangle too

rear up hind legs

from bright

 

in the head

where the colours

make raison d’être

 

what goes up

could come down

out  of the blue

 

scrape, scratch, go lightly

pile it on

never lift a pen