Songs for a fragile humanity
Collection of poems about the human condition.
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Mother made Minestrone
Mother made Minestrone. She plucked the finest greens from the herb garden, she then poured them into boiling water, like autumn leaves pulled down by gravity. Mother chopped vegetables.
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April
Whilst waiting for the teakettle to whistle, doodles overwrite themselves, pitch black, on grainy surface of white paper. Maze of twists and turns, round and elliptical,
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Beautiful
When the first light cometh, after a dark night spent catching a fleeting star, my head was heavy and dim. The effort bore no fruit. And so no pyrolite inflamed the velvet sky,
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Being human
Stars, within their cosmic paths, do not decree any destiny. Man is sole proprietor of his fate. With bare hands, a bit of courage to face the fading of time, the waning of the body,
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Communion
I am back sitting on the old chair, in the porch in the backyard, pondering about life and things to come, of the ways of the world so wicked and wrong, of the good laughter and warm hugs
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Loneliness
The eye is wide open, spots a fat sun smiling. Sweet breeze through the crack in the window, infuses wellness to the morning air. She is gone by now,
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Sometimes
My advice is simply to watch. To give room to cry to shout to scream and to tear things apart or
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Pompeii
I still think of the running lava, the hot pool of igneous rock, the molten orange with the golden trimmings, every bit flowing, like eternity, downslope. Do people feared it,
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Knowing things
You should know these things: first, that love is not enough, two, that the moon is simply a rock. Because you go through life as an unwilling ghost, unseen in the subway,
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Kiss
If you knew the depths of my heart, if I exposed it for you to see, its blood, its beat, its fever, you could maybe know the bottom of my love.
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I don't
There are awful days. That is a fact of life. But there are also trees. With green bright foliage. Have you wondered what is the memory of trees? Their millenial wisdom,
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How to write poetry
It is not enough that Maiakovski died for our sins, nor that walking down the shore he once rolled between his tongue the syllables of a roaring wave. I met the beach lifeguard.
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I gaze upon
I gaze upon the world from my window the azure skies and fluffy cumulus from my window the cherry orchard with drops of crimson from my window the...
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