DriftsandDreams

March 16, 2008

A poem for today

Filed under: Life — rhbee @ 6:58 am
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MAY SWENSON

The Universe

What
is it about,
the universe
the universe about us stretching out?
We within our brains
within it,
think
we must unspin the laws that spin it.
We think why
because we think
because.
Because we think
we think
the universe about us.
But does it think,
the universe?
Then what about … about us?
If not,
must there be cause in the universe?
Must it have laws?
And what if the universe is not about us?
Then what?
What is it about?
and what about us?

posted by rhbee

March 12, 2008

In Life

Filed under: Life, Time — rhbee @ 2:13 pm
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Sometimes
things move so slowly, so surely towards the same destination.
They move slowly (seem fast at the time) towards ratiocination.
Sure as sunshine under a blanket of clouds ends a rain,
as ocean waves beat the shore and wind blows spray, as        inevitable as night following (oh hell, you know the cliche´).

I observe this as my path
meanders in front of me, the optional exits and cloverleaf off ramps
glittering, calling, leading astray . . .
 

March 9, 2008

New poems . . .

Filed under: Life — rhbee @ 4:21 am
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Mars and the stars . . .

Men, like atoms,
              spurt and spume
                         themselves into the vast
                              vagina of the universe
                                    which waits, hot upon entry,
Until relativity cools them down.

Thought

Is constant,
Is clear like glass yet
Chiaroscuro in effect,
Is swift and yet
Turbulent as air in flight,
Is rough like a bare
                      backed, bucking bronc’s haunch,
Is wasted more often than
Not,
Is quick and dead
Before there’s time to think,
Is here and now and then gone
In a

Blink.

Knuckle headed


Noises jammed my scan
Static lightning mistakes
Messed my plan
Pit stopped, I smelled
This as another “I can” attempt at self reconciliation
Amidst the
Thought traffic jam
“Ear-ran.”
I ran,
Feet heart beat fast
I reached at last
A place where thoughts
                     and acts
Cannot crash
Un back lash ash to ash.
Smash.

Making love to Watergate


Nixon and I and you
Sweating at a rapid rate.
Reprehensible
Utterly sensible
Lacking declensionable
Nouns
To possibly clarify the
Inter – relationships
Of we three making hate to Whitewatergate.
Clinton and you and I that is . . .
 

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