Category Archives: Poetry

Hovering

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Songs of Remembrance
for alto, soprano and 2 percussionists
(text 2)
**
Numbing memories
frozen in ice
like old ghosts
revisiting
from times past
unable
or so it seems
to toss the iron mask
bare my soul
have naked eyes.
**
Have I become
afraid
to live
for fear of
drowning
in my own
darkest waters?
**
Nailed without failing
by indelible imprints
my eyes
reach
up and high
a distant eagle’s rise.
**
Here I am
hovering
above this
river divide
between
the living
and the dead.
**
March 22, 1998

Open the Gates of Fear!

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Open the Gates of Fear! –

Lead me to the edge
where I dare not tread
my Heart, blazing afire
foolish illusions
scorched on Phoenix’ pyre.

That I Am
forevermore
a Sun among Suns
rejoicing
in rays of splendid sound

Celestial musings
for each and all to hear!

 NY March 22, 1998

Third text of “Songs of Remembrance”
for alto (voice), soprano (voice) and 2 percussionists

 

Songs of Remembrance

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Songs of Remembrance

(text 1)

Angelic voices
of a timeless past
a single melody
embracing
an entire universe
of water drips
dissolving worldly sorrow
into an Ocean
where you and i have
no name
For a fleeting moment
time’s void held me
right there
on the outer shores
of the Promised Land
‘Tis these memories so dear
that make me fend
with Lion’s roar
kneel in prayer
in barren dessert’s sand
So far,
and yet so
near
I don’t know if I’m
dreaming anymore
running for dear life
Anywhere
but here!
Songs of Remembrance
(text 2)
Numbing memories
frozen in ice
like old ghosts
revisiting
from times past
unable
or so it seems
to toss the iron mask
bare my soul
have naked eyes
Have I become
afraid
to live
for fear of
drowning
in my own
darkest waters?
Nailed without failing
by indelible imprints
my eyes
reach
up and high
a distant eagle’s rise
Here I am
hovering
above this
river divide
between
the living
and the dead
Songs of Remembrance
(text 3)
That I Am
Open the Gates of Fear! –
Lead me to the edge
where I dare not tread
my Heart, blazing afire
foolish illusions
scorched on Phoenix’ pyre.
That I Am
forevermore
a Sun among Suns
rejoicing
in rays of splendid sound

 

Celestial musings,
for each and all to hear!
NY March 22, 1998

 

Barricades

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Barricades

To remove the barricades –
Bring down the Tower!
…my own Arab spring.
Placing the heart
right in the eye
of the
storm.
.
.
NY 8.26.2012

Sway

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Sway

The fluid sway
of her hips,
like a cool
summer breeze
shutters moving
back and forth
a hot
summer afternoon,
my eyes drawn ’round
the corner
where she
undoubtedly
swayed her hips
cool
like a summer breeze
shutters moving back
and forth
a hot summer
afternoon.
NY 5.31.2012

This not That

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This not That

The cars heaved
forward stopped
in their motion by
the changing lights
and as I
crossed
the road
bathed in piercing lights
I sensed the delectable
joy making this
step but not
that
step
the wondrous sensation
a moment anew
crisp
this
and not that
never to be again
NY 5.18.12