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Monthly Archives: December 2016

Where Are You Beautiful: A Song

31 Saturday Dec 2016

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Fingerpick C, G, Am, F repeat

 

Who are you,

And where are you beautiful.

Where’s your song,

That you must sing?

 

Lose yourself,

In all that is beautiful,

What’s torn apart,

What’s crumbling.

 

What’s Crumbling?

 

                                        Improvise

 

Let me hear

Your sweet song.

What makes you cry?

What sets you free?

 

It’s you and me

On the edge of losing

All we have,

To eternity–

 

To eternity.

 

                                      Improvise

 

 

Tell me now,

Where are you beautiful.

What makes you cry?

What makes you sing?

What is a Poem?

27 Tuesday Dec 2016

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Let’s be honest,
No one cares how your poem
Is a reflection of you.
They care how it is
A reflection of them.
And when I say no one,
I mean me.
And you.

Song of the Chickadee

23 Friday Dec 2016

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There’s a rule among birds,

If it’s singing, it can’t be killing,

Which may, or may not, be true,

Except for the family of plump chickadees,

Who wintered beneath our cedar arch.

With their black caps and gray-backed wings,

They flitted from rail, to pan, to chair, to deck,

To aspen perch, peeking in at us,

Until I plucked my first A minor–

The 3rd and 5th string,

A melancholy chord found in most songs,

Even the chickadees’, it turns out,

When they hear you sing.

What is Aleppo?

15 Thursday Dec 2016

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“We didn’t want anything else but freedom.

This world doesn’t like freedom.”

Abdulkafi Alhamdo, Professor of English, Last Call from Aleppo

What is Aleppo?

All that it was, or dreamed to be,

In rubble. Have you seen rubble?

It’s what hope looks like when it’s collapsed,

Reduced to broken chunks of asphalt

And twisted, distorted beams of rebar.

It’s brown. Not dark brown, but light brown,

The color of dust.

There is no truth, but suffering,

And the realization no help is coming–

No haloed army, no golden trumpets,

No white horses or heroes.

The choices you made,

In your heart of hearts,

Choice, like stone in your heart,

That is Aleppo now–

Stone in your heart.

 

The Cold That is Loneliness

15 Thursday Dec 2016

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The cold that is loneliness–

Ice, snow, hunger.

Did we care

The days had shortened?

Dark mornings,

Dark afternoons,

We stumbled, it’s true,

But don’t we all stumble,

Slide on the ice–

A dangerous toboggan

Of metal and glass and rubber

Just sliding,

sliding, sliding.

Where will it stop–

Against a sign, a bank of snow,

An oncoming car?

We turn the wheel

Left, then right, then left

And tap on the brakes,

Hoping they will catch

Onto something solid.

 

My love, turns out

You were the solid thing

On which I caught.

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