a few thoughts via some old & new poems

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EMPTY-FULL

 

When I am empty,

the winds caress and seas surge through me,

birds nest in my hair

I am One with nature and

heaven is on my mind,

 

When I am full,

I am the luck of the Irish,

the faster draw of the quick and the dead,

the misunderstood poem where my words fall out,

I am the sweetest of memories

and the terror of dying before life,

 

I shall abstain,

I shall abandon myself,

 

I am invincible,

I am ecstasy.

 

 

IMAGINE AN UMBRELLA

 

Oh, You

so

righteously

outrageously

in my head

 

I feel

your reading glasses resting on the bridge

of my nose, reading words

falling through an open sky,

Love,

we have learned dark secrets,

singing raindrops tell us in

gathering storm clouds in the eyes of passers-by.

 

colours pretend to lose themselves in

wild cities, in shadows of distant nights,

keep us apart on our way

to the end of the rainbow

 

I taste your chewing gum in my mouth.