Sunday, September 21, 2014

New Ones


UNTITLED
20th.september.2014
for c.e.d.

Your kiss lingers next to me
like a prayer fading,
touch of raindrops on my face,

your scent is on me
like words left in a book undiscovered for years
love words from a stranger to a girl, both now gone

your hand in mine, photograph of dreams
my warm palm with your cold combined, walking streets at midnight
more than shadows but not much more

your kiss wraps my body
thread of paper with many names
shredded into bits floating with the horizon,

This poem lingers
then disappears…


AN ACT
17th.september.2014

I lay back on my pillow
close my eyes
how comfortable it is
to listen to the breeze entering my flat
becoming a morning song
full of urban notes, awakening
breathe, stop, breathe again
prayer,

the simplicity of an act
I’m sure I read about it
from St. Francis and his birds
or Father Merton with the Trappists
surrounded by Kentucky trees, Southern silence

This act of stopping
to take stock
to thank or to move on
between the seen and the hoped for…

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