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~ FLOR LIBRE

    Hybiscus
    Orchids and
    Luscious green leaves,
    A meditator's proxy
    For the axis of
    The mind

    I find my spirit
    Has exhausted
    Its capacity to deal
    With the world
    And I'm in agony
    From the wound

    I distill my grief
    To adapt to the
    Present moment,
    I'm ripping off
    Every illusion,
    Daring to bleed

    I concentrate
    The pain, but
    I don't want relief:
    I want life -
    No enlightenment for me
    But living

mardi

~ JUMP

    Jump
    Into the space
    Between
    Your thoughts
    And seize
    The dream
    That plunders
    Your flame

vendredi

ACCIDENTI INTERIORI
INNERMOST INCIDENTS

    Churning vortices of fire
    Centrifugal tunnels of water
    Bursting scattershots of rock
    The mechanics of upheaval
    Bleak cataclysm
    In my distant time

    Subtle fractals of chaos
    Anatomizing the storm
    In illusory psychical constructs
    Engulfed by the deluge of
    Destructive power

    Sudden
    Intent
    Strenuous gestures
    Mental events and
    Raw energy of Nature
    In harrowing confrontation
    With the hallucinogenic disruption
    Of an interior shamanistic
    Ordeal
    Mesmeric curvilinear forcefield
    In the mandala forms
    Of fantasie fetched from the
    Abyss

mercredi

QUADRILINGUAL MADRIGAL



    AMANTS DANSANTS

    Comment danserai-je?
    Je laisserai mon coeur danser

    Comment chanterai-je ?
    Je laisserai mon coeur chanter

    Mais tu, comment te danseras?
    Il laisse voler ton coeur au vent

    Je descendrai du bleu -
    Et tu viens à danser avec moi
    Ici à la lumière

    Tous les amants dansent
    ensemble sous le soleil
    et le coeur de ceux qui
    ne nous joignent pas
    est tourné à pierre
    et puis écrasé

    DANCING LOVERS

    How shall I dance?
    I’ll let my heart dance

    How shall I sing?
    I’ll let my heart sing

    But you, how shall you dance?
    Let your heart fly to the wind

    I shall descend from the blue -
    Come dance with me here in the light

    All lovers are dancing
    Together under the sun,
    And the heart of those who join us not
    Is turned to stone and then crush’d

    AMANTI DANZANTI

    Come danzerò?
    Lascerò danzare il mio cuore

    Come canterò?
    Lascerò cantare il mio cuore

    Ma tu, come danzerai tu?
    Lascia volare al vento il tuo cuore

    Io scenderò dal blu -
    Vieni a danzare qui con me alla luce

    Tutti gli amanti danzano
    Insieme sotto il sole
    E il cuore di coloro che non si uniscono
    S’impietrisce e perisce

    NAACHTE DEEWANE

    Main kaise nachoongin?
    Main apne dil ko naachne doongin

    Main kaise gaongeen?
    Main apne dil ko gaane doongin

    Par tum...tum kaise naachoge?
    Apne dil ko udne do hawa ke paas

    Main us neele aasmaan se utrungan
    Aao, mere saath is roshni me naacho

    Saare deewane naach rahen hain
    Is ssoraj ki roshni mein
    Aur jiska dil hamare saath mil ke nahi naachta
    Woh pathar ka ho jaayega...aur fir choor choor ho jaayega

mardi

~ RISE ‘N SHINE

Waking up early in Rome


Cries of defiance
Rise from the Aventine
In a sparrow’s glide
And break the blue sky
Echoing ripples of memory
Then falling swiftly from the air
The fragments of this fragile image
Ring on the choiring cables
And jangle gently in the wind
Like a quiet piano string
The waking blood
Now floods the apprehensive silence
Fearing the heart may quicken
And start to romp against the rib
Soft and insistent as a secret bell
Under a latinate cupola
Then life will have to begin.


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~ APPRAISING HOME

    Through stalled air,
    Unshadowed light,
    A few leaves fall
    Of their own weight
    My woods oppressive,
    The sky gray.
    It begins in mist
    Almost at the ground
    And rises forever.
    The poplars file silent,
    Almost natural
    But not quite,
    Almost eternal
    But not quite.

    Here is what
    Has always been.
    Here is what
    Will always be.
    Even in me,
    The eternal quest
    Returns in rest,
    Even to the slightest of
    My interrogations,
    A brush of wind now
    Licks my face and answers.

    My head is loud
    With the labour of words.
    My tongue hungers
    For the sweet of speech.
    But it is in silence
    That my hope is,
    And my peace.
    A song whose lines
    I cannot make or sing
    Sounds Nature's quiet
    Like a millennial root.

~ RETURN

    As I feel myself reappearing
    From the profound rapture
    Of the core,
    I question, momentarily,
    The value of returning.

    For an instant
    I am tempted to remain
    In the place of infinite beauty,
    But I begin to think of the interest
    That life in the world holds -
    Music, books, art, people:
    A different kind of pleasure
    Than the other,
    And I let myself rise
    To the surface of consciousness.

    What would happen
    Next time
    If my joy in the world
    Is not quite so strong
    And I yield
    To temptation?

~ 2 DEDICATIONS & 2 CONSOLATIONS



    ECOSSE
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    Hail in spring
    Turns my mind
    To calm lochs and
    Patched fortune

LEONARDIANO
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Magical hand
Celestial mind
You generate
The longest solstice
For man’s ephemeral
Stay


    INTENSITY

    Sitar stroking
    The fibrils of my
    Sensual indulgence
    Deep


PAST WEEPING
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On a glass pane
Dried droplets of
Lacrimal salt

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~ I HAVE BEEN WATCHING EVENING ARRIVE

    I have been watching evening arrive
    The shades of black and blue
    Cover the burst of flames
    The sun has left behind
    And some vital part of me
    Being sanctified.

    My eyes nailed to the dark
    I melt into a murky sea
    And some part of my soul
    Tears its flanks apart
    As I lay down alone in regret
    And consume the night.

    My fishing heart
    Has craved itself vain
    Its thumping folds cracked open
    In hunger until they became
    Two wings and held up
    An ocean of longing.

    Yet I can scribble invisible words
    And perhaps you appear near
    The night forcing an embrace upon us
    The smell of our communion
    alluring every sense and
    Sweetening the sinews of this life.











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