hatred now and now.

for the anniversary of the dying.

 

 

 

PAIN,

 

In the most incredible manner,

which is still the usual word in this sense,

 

adorned with danger and amazement

for a skin covered with ivy or genseng

 

or the fanciful, evergreen leaves.It's

incredible just how short life truly is

 

when you rearrange the itinerary.When

something terrible is missing

 

like the witnesses of air or Jeremiah who

foresaw the calamitous ending

 

through the lavender lake, where the flowers

dry themselves in sachets and press

 

their own starving braids in the twist

of old unread books. I never knew that

 

namby-pamby meant indecision or the

pale excuse to hold something mythical

or primitive as a tooth;

 

to show pimples to the occult as if

Majdanek or Sobibor was merely the

 

braid cord beading of metallic thread.

Where the Polish hills shall be fertile

 

for a thousand years with the ashes of the

silent.

 

Hatred is partitive of the soul

where one side is a dance step and

 

the other, the movemnt of a cape by old

men's  perching habits.

 

There is, I imagine, this emblazonry

equivalent to, but not greater than,

 

this window for the firing of canon

as truth,

 

like a messy bird that builds its nest

in the steeple of the church

 

with glitter and samesex

textures...

Reviews

[Maan]

With a class of thoughts throughout you ended the poem in a marvelous way. :) Loved it.

[eglantine]

that last couplet! awesome! I also really like the foliage descriptive factors.

[KAOlmsted]

I see I am among very good company in your review queue and the honor is not lost on me. Thank you for sharing this quality work. "Where the Polish hills shall be fertile for a thousand years with the ashes of the silent." Really powerful stuff.

-kimmer

[James William Dyer]

Loved it....I'm on a touch screen so frgiv the brevity of my review......line 3 stanza 2....the words danger and amazement seemed generic. The line right below it makes up for that, but the word incredible in the opening stanza makes the impact of the words dull. After this, though, third stanza on, is wonderful....too many good lines to quote and talk about when my keyboard is not cooperating

[lee von cleef]

the end is so dam good I have lost the beginning,but then I have next year,to inquire about the Spartans.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the old unread books, to me this is part of what the hatred does....it consumes us and there is no room for anything else.

it is like a messy bird that builds its nest in just the spot where we would pray to forgive and to be forgiven.

giltter can't cover up the truth...and the truth is that hatred is wasted energy...

the dance step of forgiveness is the one i prefer...purges the heart...and the tune gets better and better.

jacob

[Baby Ricochet]

Absolutely loved it.

[Steven]

My favorite is the beginning of Ezekiel.

Another brilliant one! Comparing starving braids to the twist of old unread books. I just love your connections. "Primitive as a tooth" !! haha, I love your writing.