Archive for April, 2008

The rare, strange thing 0

Hark to the sound of the world turning,
the massive power of order.
Colours hold, atoms cohere.
Is there static? in this
Precise, pellucid, perfect clear perception?

What would it be like?
to see colours fade, snap back
go grey with flurry, bleed away,
drain.
To see outlines vanish, forms dissolve,
worlds shudder,
empty oscillation and chaos.
To explode with an atom,
fiery in the night,
come to be,
vanish away
sucked to the marrow, curlicues on the fabric of reality.
To hear sound, then nothing, but
ringing silence as
feet slide under the insubstantial earth.

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Spice mountains 0

Imust calm my heart,
it sudden leaps,
surges, filling my chest,
pressing on the bands
let me act! or do! or love!
there is enough within
foam from the top of a bottle,
brimming,
overflowing, pouring out,
through my fingers,
hands pressed to my side,
with each heartbeat
I am lighter,
and am I empty?
best work from last spasm
peerless drink the last drop
dragon’s blood
my very soul emerges,
looks around,
leaps,
in love, waterfall down
the mountain, giving and gone
a mist in the air,
and a last rainbow.

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