~war bling~

03/27/2012

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~war bling~

~chicken in the mirror~
~head pecked clean~
~that bloody face~
~won’t go away~


~we have landed~
~where~
~it all began~
~there~


~it is not violence~
~in & of itself~
~that so terrifies us~
~but the threat~
~of impending violence~
~the unknown~
~how we will react~


~that spider thing~
~one brain~
~eight legs~
~eight eyes~
~night horses~


~seems that never~
~the saying of it~
~is a guarantee~
~of its occurrence~


~nearly enough~
~to make a poor boy sing~

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~XIII. Morning Voices/Music~edit.

02/01/2012

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~soon after the turn of the century~
~Quodlibet won the Marija Cerjak award~
~for avant-garde/experimental writing~

~Quodlibet~
~The Hundred Bites~
~XIII~
    
~early mornings~
~I would get up & walk across the road~
~half a mile or so~
~she’d have the coffee hot~
~Momma~
~having arisen before the sun~
~to feed her bawling maverick calves~
~some days I’d stand back & watch~
~listen to her talk to them~
~the critters she would rescue~
~then we’d share a cup or two~
~before a hard day of ranch work~
~in the red dirt Wyoming~
~I would trade a thousand tomorrows~
~right now~
~for one of those yesterdays with her~

~XIII.  Morning Voices/Music~

~a child playing~
~a man listening~
~ladies clinking coffee cups~
~the long leather of his weathered face~
~their graceful laughter~
~almost genteel~
~still the child’s fingers play~
~sorrow & gladness ride the man’s features~
~a lone tear slides down his cheek~
~stops to rest on the lips of his smile~
~what symphony of life this~
~such joy of morning living~
~instance of rapture simplified~
~complicity of random blessed event~

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Tom (WordWulf) Sterner©
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~Meditation 31: Dos Penumbra~

08/14/2011

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~Meditation 31: Dos Penumbra~

~standing the shadow~
~of near morning~
~contemplating the day~
~standing the shadow~
~of near evening~
~confusing at first~
~a distracting sameness~
~as in death & birth~
~where the sun & moon divide~
~trade shadows~
~one might learn~
~cloud reflections~
~on the face of a mountain tarn~
~a distracting sameness~
~the dynamic of their existence~
~that they are independent~
~would not exist as they are~
~one without the other~
~spirits in the mirror~
~ghosts in the trees~

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~Meditation 30: Morning~

08/13/2011

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~Meditation 30: Morning~

~these thousands~
~days of my life~
~whenever I chance the dawn~
~its sun bathes my face~
~with a wildness beyond~
~any human conception~
~serenity deeper than~
~what lies behind~
~closed lid eyes~
~attended by bird-speak~
~over nest & kin~
~a casual kiss of breeze~
~utterly aware
~I know~
~it is glorious to be alive!~
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