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The Way

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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The way the sun lit the branches of the aspen,

Traced the snow-lined needles of the Ponderosa,

Shone off each blade of grass in the dry circle

underneath that great pine, surrounded by snow.

 

I said, the way, as if it would lead to a thought,

But, in fact, it leads to fog, or the lifting of it,

Near the tiny Lilac bushes,

And, further still, across the blanket of snow–

A blanket that someone lay upon,

But not under, leaving an impression of a body,

The soft parts, blown away

From the crisp, frozen parts.

Look further still, through the lifting,

You’ll see the great Spokane Mountain,

And all the trees and houses

Which lead from here to there.

 

For a moment, you may think you can touch it,

Stretch, reach out your hand,

Trace your fingertips along its lonely edges,

And lift it into your arms.

Magnetic Poetry Board

17 Tuesday Jan 2017

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Dead Cat

 

I miss her sleeping

beneath moon flowers

her slow desire of green spring

her sacred wild killing

I want to be that vast

To delight in cold birch

Grass & sky fire.

 

Eternity

 

eternity is a cry

a laugh

a whisper

It is a troubling mess

A concrete death.

 

They harvest fabulous yellow flowers

with joy and poetry

What Is A Poem

03 Tuesday Jan 2017

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The music is not in the notes, but the silence between. 

–Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2.

Even the world’s silence sings out to us,

The tension of what will come,

Always greater than what is.

Yes, a poem is a song,

Because everything,

Everything,

Is music.

The Coldest War

03 Tuesday Jan 2017

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Capo 3   (Am, Em, G, C)
His letter arrived on January Two,
He said the British were coming, but the snow came, too,
And they didn’t have food, and they didn’t have shoes,
He wanted to be home, but had to stay through.

Chorus:
Dan, Dan, come home to me if you can.
Leaving now won’t make you less of a man.
Come home to me now, if you can.
Come home to me now, if you can.

 
Soldiers were buried like sheep in the snow,
They were almost smothered by the storm.
The salt water froze, so the boats stood still,
And there wasn’t an escape from that wintry hell.

Chorus.

 
By the time my words arrived, Dan was already gone.
He didn’t have a chance to heed my sweet begging song.
And, the storm went its way, as if it hadn’t ever come,
And the world went on and on.

 
Dan, Dan, you’ll always be my sweet lovin’ man.
You’d have come to me if you’d had the chance,
But the world had other plans.
Yes, the world had other plans.

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