Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, July 4, 2010

I can't write poetry but here goes anyway


Inspired by the 4th of July. Where we light fireworks to symbolize bombs which we take to symbolize freedom.


Happy birthday America,

Land of the free.

Freedom to colonize what didn’t belong to me.

Freedom to get rich at the cost of Earth, people, soul.

Freedom to make dominating others my goal.

Freedom to grant liberty to any man.

Who is not brown, gay or poor,

Or holds a joint in his hand.

And if you’re a woman, your body is mine to control.

Just like the land that I took long before.



But Look!

What is that on the horizon I see?

A lion?

The Sun?

A Labyrinth?

A Goddess!

She holds a scale in one hand.

The other hand is pointed directly at me.

She claims that She is America!

The Truth and the Struggle.

Freedom of Infinite Creation.

Like light from a prism,

Rainbows of people emerge from within her.

Many rivers come.

Flowing with the blood of innocents.

Trees sprouting from its dark banks touch stars which fall upon me.

I look for my gold and my armies.

But they flit away on wings that whisper of false prophets.

I beg for the compassion that I never bestowed.

And She grants it to me.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

the poetry wall

Here are some snapshots of the poetry wall in Venice. A small homage to those who helped create the spirit of this place.

My favorite is the first poem by Philomene Long. she died on my birthday a few years ago. I'm going to buy some of her books. It's a shame I've spent so many years here and never met her or read her words.




Sunday, March 29, 2009

Spring enters through my bedroom window...



She stretches and twists, searching...


reminding me why I believe in Magick.


sometimes I awake to the pulsing of the vines
they vibrate as they sense where to grasp next


the beauty is in the uncertainty.
Because they grasp anyway.


I think they know they will find no sun
in my indigo cave



...but they grasp anyway