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2019 American Place Poems

Speaker for the Dead

We call for a new poetry!

We call for a new eulogy!

We call forth the Speaker for the Dead.

He will understand the lost as only the Ender of

Worlds can begin to grasp. He will tell us who they

Were, where They stood. You do not know nor could.

They never wrote it down for you. Never heard them say.

Admirer, lover, blinded still,

your pining overwhelming, what was real.

Their stories told without the Makar’s mark.

Stripped away, our own projections of glories old

And say the truth, no matter how dark.

The funeral can no longer be your poetic elegy.

It must be a poem of record telling the life of the

One who will be remembered beyond the grave.

Their stories a collection of Cities and States.

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Garden Psalms Poems

Burning your heart out

Old promises(*) of Love should be
taken from their dusty shelves

and Burnt!

Every autumn, like the raking
and the culling of the leaves:

stale promises!

Burning! Giving fertile soils to
new beginning and renewing vow

breaking ground
eternal flower
prescient poesy!

 

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2019 Garden Psalms Hearts Quartet Poems Shapes

Heart’s Quartet

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Garden Psalms Hearts Quartet Poems

Psychí (1)

     Blue-eyed Lovely Lady                           long Psychic connection
Dancing to the Blues                                  Filial bondings going
little introductions led                                Well beyond the forms
to Feeling the                                                of LOVE that
same groove                                                  came before
turned into                                                       turning 2
a life-                                                                 to 1

 

Due to the nature of responsive web pages, the mobile version of this poem loses it’s intended shape. For readability, here are the stanzas in order:

Blue-eyed Lovely Lady
Dancing to the Blues
little introductions led
to Feeling the
same groove
turned into
a life-

long Psychic connection
Filial bondings going
Well beyond the forms
of LOVE that
came before
turning 2
to 1

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Garden Psalms Hearts Quartet Poems

Philos (1)

Words
No need
We too can
Sit so silently
Contemplative
No need for words
We two commun-icate
Hundreds stories common
Psychic in the way we need not
say a single thing. Under
standing that
not even time matters between
spaces long
between our Sharings. Quantum
entanglement
perhaps. No matter, “I am glad you are here.”

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Garden Psalms Hearts Quartet Poems

Agape (1)

Tending
Tender care
For another being.
Identifying that your
Presence and attention
Deliver more than what was
Possible without your intervention.
God to creation, gardener to garden.
Husband to family, Mother to children.
Soldier to country, Poet to human being.

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Poems Road Less Travelled

I was a child

My early poems were childish.
Then again I was a child.

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2019 American Place Garden Psalms Poems

Barber Shop Blind

Lenses down
Sight bubbles
Faceless forms
Busy cutting
Head vibrates
Blur tremors
Walls reflect
What I cannot see

Busy people
“Looking good”
Cell stacks
Aged clippings
Fall slowly
Swept away
Cheerful chatter
Finishing with a new me

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2013 Poems Road Less Travelled

I’ll Catch Up To You There

For Granny

The sun is always
shining on The Road.

It’s the place I go
to be with them,
my ancestors,
my fellows, my friends.

It is where I walk
quietly, alone
Thinking of days past
and lives well lived.

There’s no time
Out on The Road
Out of the hustle and
Bustle of everyday lives,
Just the place
where I keep walking,
talking with the
Ones I Love.

 

Elizabeth Sutherlin, March 7, 1917 – October 1, 2013

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American Place Ars Philosophica Poems

Forged

Without Constraint there is only Chaos,
Without Chaos there can be no Creation.
In between Leaders are forged by the pressure.

Wisdom is knowing the Fire from the Anvil.
Leadership is wielding the Hammer without vanquishing the Flame.