Lullaby
1 January 2018
Vaporised
Golden melodies
Don’t you cry
Mother said
We’ll walk with the waking dead
Into sun cities
Soul appease
Chanted little bird
The heart frees
Minds that float
Between the castles and moat
Slices of the wall
Rise and fall
Memory on ledge
The world’s edge
In my sky
Waiting for mind to recall
Lullaby
Reading of the poem:
Sahalé – Esfahran
Sahalé – Nlreb Mra Alrrih
Sahalé – Middle Eastern Promises
Through impossibility
9 September 2017
Talking birds
Flying through monsoon
Quick to swoon
Under moon
Her pallor accentuates
As the heart dilates
Wayward herds
They speak survival
Revival
Of rival
Plan simple black against white
Inclination fight
Unknown nerds
Working for planet
No regret
None to fret
Through impossibility
Align humans free
Reading of the poem:
From Yesterday – Thirty Seconds to Mars
The Center Holding
5 May 2017
Stars to string
Bearer of the ring
Suffering
A mind thing
Bird that flies upon lone wing
The center holding
Reading of the poem:
A Tethered Falcon – poetry by Hafiz, Music by Tim Janis
Humming bird journey
25 April 2017
Dim lit streets walk fast
Across tides of wasting past
Spreading shadows cast
Motionless traction
From the stillness in action
Quantum attraction
Hovering still bee
Floats sucked through Eternity
Humming bird journey
Reading of the poem:
Changes – Neorus
The weightless measure of things
25 February 2017
The bird that sings loud
Beckoning to the springtime
Beating in my heart
The snowdrop that curls
Around the trace of white snow
Shifting on the road
The bougainvillea
Red branches that bear its frame
Heart of the garden
The Jasmine exhaled
Scent of the renewed morrow
As Musk hid in dusk
Petunias explode
Purple and carmine carpets
Shower in the green
The heart that beats soft
The weightless measure of things
That the robin sings
Reading of the poem:
Mother’s Wingspan – Ben Leinbach
Every magic word
15 May 2016
Our burdens
The sum of sorrows
We carry
Their dead gait
Knees caving under the weight
Of wasted morrows
Open heart
Let the sorrow drip
Like the rain
Kissing Earth
See in their embrace rebirth
Of inner children
We were once
The kings of playgrounds
Our chests bare
Laid down hair
The dark stringent marks of Time
Still unwoven threads
Soul carefree
We danced with the winds
That shook fierce
All the fires
Within heart carving desires
The mind a wild bird
Bleak routine
Settling in with hooks
Anchored us
Rooted feet
Day by day we faced defeat
Of the larky times
The dreams dreamt
They are lost in mists
Read in books
Blown in winds
Paper scattered now rescinds
Every magic word
Reading of the poem:
Profumo di donna – Enrico Rava
Mi ritorni in mente – Enrico Rava
Spleen – Enrico Rava and Richard Galliano
Rebirth out of lies
7 May 2016
They beat fast
The heart’s pulsations
At the throat
Like a bird
When the clipped wings have grown back
First flight to freedom
The changes
They don’t come easy
Twenty-three
Unfolding
The coils twisting and turning
Forging another
Decoded
Secrets of my spine
Talk wonders
Surging heat
Skirmishes as I retreat
Time for peace not war
I am sword
Forged in cool iron
Liquefied
Blue matter
Beaten upon life’s ridges
My cutting edges
Create word
Says my inner voice
The poet
Composes
From gutter bed of roses
All contains beauty
The heart sees
All that will begin
In twilight
Unfolding
Like novel of Sir Golding
Rebirth out of lies
Reading of the poem:
Time to Come – Miguel Palafox
Oriana – Miguel Palafox
Rebirth – Miguel Palafox
The bird on the hand
2 May 2016
Grey dawn awakens
Sleepy grasshoppers stretching
In drizzle of light
Idle thoughts in the half-light
Stir lazily in my mind
Silent butterflies
Flutter in the morning rays
That slowly emerge
My restless hands stretch outwards
Craving gift of the sun’s warmth
Silent observer
Tiny sparrow lands promptly
Perched on my fingers
Turned master of life and death
I lift my hand gingerly
The bird on the hand
Watching clouds fly in the sky
Blue dreams of springtime
Within bosom hopes of sun
Spiral towards lost freedom
Wanton prisoner
Delaying its onward flight
The sparrow hops twice
Curious mind discovering
I repeat the lost trials
The clouds gather dark
Their rims stripped of all linings
Stand dry tone on tone
Knaves take shelter the soonest
While the brave dance in the storms
Reading of the poem:
Masao Yamamoto – Photography with music of John Williams (Morning)
Masao Yamamoto – The Space between Flowers
Masao Yamamoto – Haiku with music of Joe Hisaishi, “Sakura”
In split particles
23 April 2016
Slow and sure
I see it unfold
Morrow’s mirth
Future birth
Small signs of recognition
Synchronicity
Never seen
Barely understood
Confusion
Of the mind
Stripped it of significance
The empty treasure
You saw me
In split particles
The light shades
Darkening
Impact of the heart’s features
Chest empty vessel
I hold it
Like a precious bird
The future
Shining bright
Like a mirror in glazed eyes
When the light seeps in
Chosen path
Possibilities
Fate’s remnants
Event’s turn
Twisting through the true meanings
Known by pure of heart
We depart
With the day’s work done
You twin sun
My soul’s blood
I keep you within the core
Though fate never more
Reading of the poem:
Vide cor meum – Patrick Cassidy based on La Vita Nuova (A ciascun alma presa)
Open up the box
25 March 2016
Look through Heart
There are hidden worlds
Inside us
Swirling tops
They chase the hope as it hops
From twig to cast twig
Bird of prey
Bird of paradise
Third species
We decant
Through inner voices we chant
Songs of yesteryears
Piling fears
Inarticulate
Loss of words
Bundled herds
Grazing through pastures of spleen
Forgotten your sheen
There is light
It beckons to blind
Eye saw cut
Connections
Threading with my soul’s needle
I pierced the darkness
Ivy climbed
Chains of the feeble
Envy green
Hearts that glean
More than the weight of mistakes
Burdens of the spate
Now dilate
Journey tortuous
Remember
Birth’s pathway
Closed soul fever of grid locks
Open up the box
Reading of the poem:
Light up the sky – The Afters
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