MS K

Tags

loss, love, poem, poetry

MS K

I’ll leave it until
tomorrow

or maybe
the day after

hacking through
the cable
chopping down
the tree

there is a book
somewhere where
the answers to
all questions
are recorded

one day I will
find it, read
the entry
under your name
and it
will make sense to me

AND AGAIN

Tags

poem, poetry, Sexual innuendo, wordplay

AND AGAIN

wanted to
thank her
for loving me
in a
practical way

as
practically
as possible

as practice
makes perfect

again
and again

SO LOVE ASKED

Tags

Humanity, love, poem, poetry

SO LOVE ASKED

so love asked me
in a full-bodied
way

what it was
I could bring
to the table

I sighed, and looked
at my oeuvre
so
many
scrappy pieces
of text, dillying
and dallying
with the
idea of
love

nothing
full-blooded
steeped in
the idea of
sacrifice
and
redemption

SHARE

Tags

love, poem, poetry, Reader, writing

SHARE

share this word
share that world

let the whole
go viral

let the sheer
mass of the poem
once
digitally dissolved
and restored
touch
everyone’s soul

speaking
of love, but
there it
will need
translation

these little English words
so far from
that concept
in use everyday

GIFT

Tags

love, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, poststructuralist, sexual symbolism, spiritual, theological

GIFT

gift that we
give each other

trust Monsieur Derrida
to wrap an aporia
in with this

and me
thinking what
you are about to give
an act of
grace
special sacrament

that thing whose
mode of existence
might be open
to question
and yet which
cannot but truly
embody your essence
(prove to be nothing
if not its most faithful expression)

Oh this theology
I am up there with it
see how
in the hands
of the artist
whatever is in fact realized
all things are possible

my poem
each line a
finger and
a string

could be said
to be arrowing for you
yet never
so linear

Oh such hands
such hands

shaped for gifts
shaped for giving

everything about them
lending itself to metaphor

and so
insistent about
their service
augment the artist in
whatsoever inspiration

MELT

Tags

care, Humanity, ice, loneliness, love, poem, poetry, The World

MELT

that was.a cold prayer indeed
ice
in my mouth
struggling to get
the words out

but determined to
have my say
as the temperature
nosedived to
absolute zero

asking for
the preservation
of the warmth
and beauty
of your world

but you
didn’t, couldn’t hear me
had forgotten about
my very existence
as my body froze
and the great glacier
of our time
took me

of which it would take
even a warmth and love and humanity
strong and pure as your
centuries, several lifetimes to melt

SOURCE (OF YOUR SHAME)

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Aquinas, Catholic, Humanity, love, philosophical, poem, poetry, religious, spiritual

SOURCE (OF YOUR SHAME)

St Thomas Aquinas
defines your source
as the absolute embodiment
of that thing
I have never known

one, two glimpses, yes
I grant you

but you who
know it, feel it,
experience it 24/7

do you not
look at the world
that surrounds you
broken
and gutted

do you
creatures of love, basking
in love
not feel a
sense of shame?

SEXTONNET

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form, love, poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, Sonnet, wordplay, writing

SEXONNET

I stole
your lines
made them
rhyme
but where
they did so
already
took that away

so is this thing,
this poem
yours or mine?

our voices
like our bodies
intertwined.

UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES

Tags

crazy, Desire, love, poem, poetry, shaman

UNDER THE
CIRCUMSTANCES

let me go
deep
as I can
under the
circumstances

let me put
the “man”
in your
shaman

let us
pass through
doors and walls
turn this
Universe into
a window

let me count
infinity in
the pores
of your skin
every millisecond
of thought in
your crazy
imagination

let us
reverse
all polarities

turn
every
inside to out
every outside to in

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUSE

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Birthday, love, Muse, poem, poetry

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUSE

happy birthday
to my Muse

slim and
dark

she sticks her
dagger in
and winkles
poems
out of me

in each of
which

I allude to
her identity

the suppressed
intensity

with which
she digs out poems
carves her name
on my heart