Saturday, March 28, 2009

Poems On Parade!


Flags are flying.  Poem majorettes are twirling.  Poem players are marching - some in order, some not.  Everyone is out in the sunshine waving, watching, wondering.  

Did I mention wishing, remembering, and celebrating!?   Kids, moms and dads, guys hanging out on the corner, girls giggling and pointing, grandcouples smiling, everyone is glad to be here and ready for more.  

Old standbys, new friends.  Form and formless.  Figure and ground.  Noise and silence.   Whispers, exclamations.  Narrative and abstract.  Colorful and wildly monochromatic.  Serious (ahem) and not so.  Big words, small ones.  But, plenty of them.  Or, not.  

Welcome to the parade.  Every day is a holiday.  Everything, an occasion. 


Krazy

I am always ready to play along
And trace the picture here before us
Two trees amidst the wilderness
Two birches in the forest

The moon shines down 
Through leaf and limb
It's raining down upon us
And sings so sweetly in the dark
To you, Ignatz, addunnis

You merry mouse
You show yourself
Not through words
But through your actions

With your bricks of love
A home we'll build
A shelter from all factions
Of discord
And of datchord
Of one and 
One another

For me, there's you
That's all there is
There isn't any other
 
- Ted Ringer



And now, a blast from the Past.



Simple Talk

Spilling themselves in the sun bluebirds
wing-mention their names all day.  If everything
told so clear a life, maybe the sky would
come, maybe heaven; maybe appearance and
truth would be the same.  Maybe whatever seems
to be so, we should speak so from our souls,
never afraid, "Light" when it comes,
"Dark" when it goes away. 

- William Stafford








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