Sunday, March 17, 2013

DEFINITIONS FOR A POET





Mitochondria: 
hope of converting the energy of verse
to sustenance the nucleus of society may use. 

Sophism:
Not the implement of deceit that it has come to represent,
Rather the Art of successful living
it came to mean in 5th Century philosophy--
or a nod to the Greek.

Onomatopoeia:
Fluidity of utterance, flowing o’er a reader’s ears,
A tete-a-tete in a sidewalk cafe
where we shall echo life’s variances,
Murmuring into each other’s ears, 

The Abrakadabra that brings hope to life.











Sunday, March 10, 2013

Syrian Family



They live in caves,
The dust of their ancestors
filling their lungs,

covering each day 
with alms from the past.

When will we 
join them?

They must have thought
as bombs exploded
around them.

When will this dust
mingle with our own?


*In Syria, people are digging out
ancient graves in the hillsides and
living in therm. Safer to live underground.
March 2013