Like ghosts in the rain

Like ghosts in the rain

3 June 2016

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Winding through alleys

Cutting through the Tuscan winds

Shades of summer skies

 

Do you remember

The streets stretched out like cobwebs

Green lanes sprawling out

 

We twirled like spiders

Spinning webs of memories

Glistening in the dark

 

All those moments fade

Like the storm that once blew hard

Subsiding glowers

 

The seasons slow-paced

They walk into each other

Never-ending dance

 

Untouched shades of us

Fighting under dark waters

Against oblivion

 

I know a small nook

Where we twirl silently

Like ghosts in the rain

 

Reading of the poem: 

 

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Oblivion – Piazzolla

Milonga del Angel – Piazzolla

Rain tango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzBF_5qy5pM

Every magic word

Every magic word

15 May 2016

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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: 

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Profumo di donna – Enrico Rava

Mi ritorni in mente – Enrico Rava

Spleen – Enrico Rava and Richard Galliano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJN_Tfaj_KI

The spiraling flights right into the sky

The spiraling flights right into the sky

(original form of 15th century rondeau cinquain)

19 April 2016

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The spiraling flights right into the sky

The wuthering heights, the children that fly

The sweltering rain, the dark clouds that weep

The simmering pain, the angels that keep

Farewell into lights the soul that flies high

 

The thunderous nights of hearts that deny

The weakening plights of stories that try

The innocence slain downward paths too steep

The spiraling flights right into the sky

The wuthering heights, the children that fly

The sweltering rain, the dark clouds that weep

 

The unearthly sights of the Gods that cry

The unwritten rights the rumbling outcry

The darkening stain of the flows that seep

The memories that wane though stirrings run deep

Dry foreboding writes the shrill and the wry

 

The spiraling flights right into the sky

The wuthering heights, the children that fly

The sweltering rain, the dark clouds that weep

The simmering pain, the angels that keep

Farewell into lights the soul that flies high

 

Reading of the poem: 

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The spiraling flights

Modern form of the rondeau (15 lines with “Rentrement” at 9th and 15th lines)

19 April 2016

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The spiraling flights right into the sky

The wuthering heights, the children that fly

The sweltering rain, the dark clouds that weep

The simmering pain, the angels that keep

Farewell into lights the soul that flies high

 

The thunderous nights of hearts that deny

The weakening plights of stories that try

The innocence slain downward paths too steep

The spiraling flights

 

The unearthly sights of the Gods that cry

The unwritten rights the rumbling outcry

The darkening stain of the flows that seep

The memories that wane though stirrings run deep

Dry foreboding writes the shrill and the wry

The spiraling flights

 

Reading of the poem: 

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The pain of separation (The longing)

Only Breath – Rumi

The Longing – The Truth of the friend, Rumi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKuORmTvfZI

Pathways

Pathways

5 April 2016

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Falling drops of rain

Mingle with the yellow sands

Brown maps on roadside

Parched memories like deserts

Drenched by heart relive pathways

 

Reading of the poem: 

Lagrimas – B Tribe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=megyhQ_3ZC4

In Circles of bliss

In Circles of bliss

25 March 2016

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I speak Blue

My canvas defined

Oceans’ words

Stretched waters

Definition who is who

Diluted in hearts

 

The pain starts

Within the focus

Define where

Set locus

Derive bright light from the air

Open the Lotus

 

We are carved

Infinity’s trails

Yet like snails

Pace deserts

Scorching sands our daily bread

Lost the divine thread

 

I seized it

Entrance into all

Standing tall

I was none

Witnessed how it had begun

Illusion mind game

 

My body

Death accessory

It paints wild

Withered lands

The throb within understands

The meanings of rain

 

Gone the pain

In Circles of bliss

They shine bright

Through my Heart

Target hit yet gone amiss

All flows through essence

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Manvantara – Bliss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQLrNkA2PI

Immortal

Immortal

22 March 2016

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The breath comes

In surges of waves

Colliding

Collapsing

My inner realms synapsing

With your contact points

 

Aching joints

They scribble terse wills

Blowing firm

Into dust

Holding on to the Earth’s crust

As the world crumbles

 

We live plane

Intersecting hearts

Love lingers

A short while

Lo! routine with it departs

Into shades of loss

 

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I bear cross

Within my red palms

Nighttime balms

Applied thick

Now covering neat and slick

Circles of the pain

 

It will rain

Upon my meadows

The ravens

Will pluck eyes

Carved within sunken shadows

As I caw with crows

 

Immortal

Like blue butterflies

Flying free

I am whole

Wings remnants of unchained soul

Once you had freed them

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Immortelle – Lara Fabian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99_BOsxIt6w

Give in to waters

Give in to waters

17 March 2016

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We struggle

Breathing through ether

Distilled rain

Scent of pain

Fear and hate make essence boil

Barren now our soil

 

We are made

In love’s wet caskets

Hydro-land

Our life’s bone

The exit harsh time to hone

Skill of two flowers

 

Beaten live

Into this dry world

They sky dive

Literal

Falling into a parched land

Decomposed atoms

 

The time spent

To learn equations

Of still life

That blooms slow

Replicating inner glow

Preexisting light

 

Random fight

We pick up with else

Is but clone

Of our own

Inner turmoil decanting

Sediments of self

 

Free the mind

Give in to waters

Learn to breathe

Through raindrops

They are life that flows through heart

They are Time’s secrets

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Our Love is easy – Melody Gardot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HnH1XFhLYM

Running in pace with Ghost runaway train

Running in pace with Ghost runaway train

10 March 2016

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The memories of you falling like dark rain

Illusion of white light between its strands

Lost hope’s perfusion as clamour the hands

The chest distorted staccato of pain

 

Motionless like dream’s running I remain

Grouped atoms in me form nerve that disbands

Particles of sorrow in sunken sands

Running in pace with Ghost runaway train

 

I scattered your blood acquired in globes

From depths of the Lake where you swam alone

Brought me mock pearls to decorate earlobes

 

They say sirens with them their chests adorn

Their tongues a mist, their hands a sailor’s probes

Their hearts like Lilith forever turned stone

 

Reading of the poem: 

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The starlit jewel – Broceliande

Galadriel’s Lament – Broceliande (Margaret Davis)

Lay of Nimrodel – Broceliande (Margaret Davis)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZbzKN4S78

To where I will bloom

To where I will bloom

10 January 2016

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The rain fell softly

Upon brown desert landscapes

Where sand had rusted

 

The wind howled on bleak

Echoing through rocky peaks

Time’s grey witnesses

 

Beyond yellow stretched

Between grey peaks green ravines

The light hid in play

 

A journey inward

Where barren neighboured the lush

Reflected outward

 

Inside these valleys

Surrounding peaks bring to eyes

Moist loss of today

 

Whisper to me feats

In the mind’s eye that listens

Bravado a must

 

I will bid you tales

When tomorrows’ letters spell

New recollections

 

There was a road spent

In travel to chances dreamt

Under moonlit skies

 

This ride has begun

A long and dusty road blinks

Withering in sun

 

We walk oft alone

When butchers cut the pieces

They square them smallest

 

When all else has failed

What more to rid now these lands?

Only my hopes’ pearls

 

Shimmering presence

Between two worlds I flicker

A ghost of myself

 

Fold tight the napkin

We are all going somewhere

You might follow soon

 

Once on other side

Remember me by the touch

Of hidden insights

 

Now this tired flame

Dilates and shrinks as I sail

To where I will bloom

 

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Animated pictures courtesy fastcodesign.com and thecreatorsproject.vice.com

Going somewhere – Abel Korzeniowski

Flying with whales – Abel Korzeniowski

 

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Reinvented spring

Reinvented spring

3 January 2016

 

Spectacles, new eyes

Look within their frame’s focus

Winter’s snow turns crisp

 

Next doors a bird chirps

A leafy tree in desert

Reinvented spring

 

 

Rain’s pitter patter

Upon the meadows flowers

Snow preserved by walls

 

Beach sands extended

Slight rivers joining the sea

Summer kissed winter

 

 

Images from my camera for the flowers (all from my garden) and from luxuo.com, worldoftravel.com, ink361.com, gadling.com for the Dubai sightseeing points landscapes

I wrote this poem in a series of Haiku bordering on Senryu because it struck me how much it is typical of this country in its winter to know of three seasons within the same time; mainly winter, spring and summer together but during some days winter, spring and autumn bizarrely depending on where you are going. The winter symbol is of course man-made with the construction of ski Dubai in Mall of the Emirates where you can go skiing regardless of the temperature outside. Winter here is the equivalent of spring in Europe and when it is not raining the weather is fantastic, flowers are blooming and birds are chirping everywhere.

 

Spyro Gyra – Cafe Amore