Four Poems

1.

August 28th

Today Dr. King
sang a song for eternity
in the deep south of 45 years ago:
"I Have A Dream".

Today Obama will accept
the Presidential nomination
in a mile-high city
in a colourless America
where every soldier of history
walks down corriders of truth,
shadows in a unknown tomb

Today my father, Louis
would have been 84,
grave number, row, section
in Holy Cross Cemetary,
buried next to Helen.

What is this urge of time
to create a song
of dreams?

2.

Mountaintop

After awhile
A human resembles a mountain,
snow-white capped
crags and crevices
steep paths
caves and windblown limbs
sheets of ice and folly
scattered fields of flowers
broken stems
dark-tortured rivers
cool water
shoulders of clouds
sapphire skies,
emerald memories,
eons of sun

slowly returning to sea.

3.

No Walls

There are no walls here
only hard black rain
pouring
inside hearts of fire
iceburgs of fear
floating
through narrow vessels
prayers of sand
facing Mecca
New York and Bombay,
Hebron and Cleveland
a lonely voice
crying in the wilderness
a lonely vigil
inside the eye of Horus
sacrificial lambs
bleating
with lotus-blue tongues...
silences
in eternity
jugulars of temptation
drawing light
in all these
utterances,
breaking nothing
but the sound
of blood and tears

breaking
always breaking

4.

Fantasy

It was only a fantasy
love can never speak
in the Silence we seek,
we are lonely in the folds of flesh,
aching to be touched,
weeping
divisions of a solitary image
burning in our hearts.

— Kailashana, Aug 29, 2008

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themoonman

17 years 9 months ago

Anna...

hope you get your computer problem worked out.. I miss ya! I like all four of your poems but then I am biased... I like the way you write... we are lonely in the folds of flesh aching to be touched wonderful wordsmithing Richard

Kailashana

17 years 9 months ago

;-) nothing quite like a

;-) nothing quite like a touch of love. eh?

easylife_2

17 years 9 months ago

Very good write

All four of them,excellent imagery and wordsmithing.thank you.

Kailashana

17 years 9 months ago

Thanks. btw is life really

Thanks. btw is life really easy? ~A

easylife_2

17 years 9 months ago

We try to

Take things easy,live one dayy at a time.........I appreciate your repling.Thank you.

Arrow

17 years 9 months ago

Ok, I only read 2

b/c I have the attention span of a gnat. #2. Overall, I loved the poem. It's so very, very strong and vivid, except for those first two lines (for me). I hate all those simile words (resembles, like, etc.). Maybe some stronger words, "Inexorably/a human becomes a mountain" or "Imperceptibly/ a human becomes a mountain" - just some ideas. #3. As usual, I learned something - "eye of Horus". Techincal detail - "bleAting" not "bleEting." I got a little lost starting with the "jugulars of temptation." Would you explain? (My little gnat brain might have been tired by then). For me, it ended naturally at "eternity." As usual, gorgeous imagery. I could read your poems again and again.

Kailashana

17 years 9 months ago

Gnat? Now I have a

Gnat? Now *I* have a reference point! Once I was a mayfly. ;-) I have many poems that use 10-25 cent words... especially *inexorably* and *imperceptibly*....in this case i wanted a simple building up to the mountain itself, that is anything but *simple. Jugulars of temptation.... a *throbbing*, so to speak. Thanks for reading arrow, appreciate your noticing the incorrect spelling of bleating, which, of course, is now corrected. ~A