all the best poems are love poems

"slight is the subject, but not so the praise." a.pope

 

 

 

all the best poems are love poems, but

wouldn't you know the fulsome birdfeeder

 

is overcrowded with the singers not the doers;

not the keepers of the nest or those that hollow

 

out tree trunks for the young. Poems are all perfectible.

The hominid way of rest.

 

What can the northeast wind bring to me?

I am not popular; not hummingbird.

 

Nothing on earth points me earthward

away from religious transcendence.

 

I am no more a language than the mumbo

ants describe. I want to catch a cardinal

 

in a brown box and lift the corners up to

see it's wings but red things are Whitman's

 

musings on death, wanting to capture the nonworld.

As a bird, I hold nothing in my wing.

 

As a love poem or a person who can bleed one,

I am the grayest ghost. Burried under the

 

sillions of alex. pope. Let me in! Let me in!

into the shed where every word is known

 

into the house where the horses know your home.

Reviews

[Emily B]

this one takes my breath away

[sienikeha]

gorgeous, gorgeous. absolutely!

i love this -->

"I want to catch a cardinal
in a brown box and lift the corners up to
see it's wings but red things are Whitman's
musings on death, wanting to capture the nonworld.
As a bird, I hold nothing in my wing."

honestly -- you are a rare talent.

[Shmoke-Sifted Heftlande..]

it's ominously reverent and well-sculpted. it's intellectually playful and morose and everything it needs to be. and thank you for teaching me a few things about language and history. humbled as per usual