Showers and Flowers Punxsy Phil still napping In his den since saying We’re in for more snow days Six more weeks of cold daze
I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is
Farmers in the fields, housewives… Watch the burning aircraft across… As if a firefly and a spider fough… Far above the trees, between the w… They wait with interest for the ev…
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils
Ma motherly she is affectionate and nurturing speaks “motherese” lovingly to a child
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her whit… and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and str… I stand and watch her until at len…
Swerving east, from rich industria… And traffic all night north; swerv… Too thin and thistled to be called… And now and then a harsh—named hal… Workmen at dawn; swerving to solit…
As I walk along nature’s path The clouds appear luminous and nea… As if to hug and protect All earthly inhabitants. Turtles sunbathe on a floating log
Spring Chameleons Ode To Spring . . . Bountiful garden Lilac Sunday monarch shrubs
And for what, except for you, do… Do I press the extremest book of… Close to me, hidden in me day and… In the uncertain light of single,… Equal in living changingness to th…
Unhappy about some far off things That are not my affair, wandering Along the coast and up the lean ri… I saw in the evening The stars go over the lonely ocean…
It seemed an unlikely match. All… grinding its teeth in a plastic sl… nose-down from a hook in the darkr… under the hatch in the floor. When… it knocked back a quarter-pint of…
Cruising these residential Sunday streets in dry August sunlight: what offends us is the sanities: the houses in pedantic rows, the p…
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
Be infinitesimal under that sky, a… even the sailing hawk misses, a wr… among the rocks where the mist par… Recall the way mere mortals are ov… by circumstance, how great reputat…
Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
fire made earth you walk on under your feet warm yet cold a winter discontent
cool colors not far behind life is a whirlwind eyes open at dawn close in a wink at dark valentine’s not too long ago
You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, that is a fish, blue and flat on the paper, almost
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
Same old, same old on a Saturday… A bottle of Heineken in his hand Sat on the same bar stool, in the… Behind him the sounds of a three-p… Picture repeated almost everyday
V. A. L. E. N. T. I. N. E. S. Make Love Not Sex V. Vigor? No! It’s that gentle… A. Ask you did. All appearances… L. Lust is a four letter word l…
It is the first mild day of March… Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall… That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air,
let go and enjoy the moment day in the life kind– then let go of that moment and move on to the next one without anticipation and so on – and since you do not know what the future holds...
Make no mistake: if He rose at al… it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not… reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall.
splendid horizon a setting sun a weakening light maybe some real thin French cookie… tea could be good even a dark bold… until time is no more... yes
Romance Romance Is Love In
Earth Beyond Let there be Light Dead into life empty into full hel… Grains of sand into towers of moun… Formless unknown unknown darkness…
October Red Winds Santa Ana winds Seasonal metamorphosed To fire explosions Hopscotching smoky canyons
Boxer’s split hoof was a long time in healing. They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended Boxer refused to take even a day off wor...
Joy to the World Flight Right out the north pole In a sled he goes! Down the solar stream Merrily merrily Ho Ho Hoing
Echoes of the Sixties Scrambled Eggs With Rosemary A brunch of scrambled eggs and dar… Sounds especially good this Sunda… After a late tossing turning night…
Come, Madam, come, all rest my po… Until I labour, I in labour lie. The foe oft—times having the foe i… Is tir’d with standing though he n… Off with that girdle, like heaven’…
Equinox the sun arcs north side worms and grubs reappear to soak in the rising heat birds follow the sun northward
I celebrate myself, and sing mysel… And what I assume you shall assum… For every atom belonging to me as… I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observ…
you won’t see them often for wherever the crowd is they are not. those odd ones, not
Moonlight Lullaby a sequin night sky deja vu grayish pinkish cloudless sky fabric a sunlight glossed saracenic moon
Out From The Cages A Day In The Life Birds cry They plea all day long Out from their wire cages flutter
shameless revenant a revenant ghost from the ninth circle of hell haunting the meadows sucking the wealth life shameless
Truth Seekers The Golden Fleece Let passion fly soar to the
loving sardines... ode to St Pete… the sun kisses the moon along a serene trinity road to a congress of sardiniers cold naked white landscape gone
share the naked happiness ...Christmas time... the season of… brings back fond remembrances of y… every note... every song played and sung
I thought that I could not be hur… I thought that I must surely be impervious to suffering— immune to pain or agony.
Far... far away far... I hear and I drink The sweet songs of the cosmos The ambrosia the nectar The seasons of the universes
Unbiased at least he was when he a… Having never set eyes on the land… Between two peoples fanatically at… With their different diets and inc… “Time,” they had briefed him in L…
flowers of love and then i see you your blond hair now dirty white you are sitting
Long Live Tau Alpha The golden beads Of brotherhood is unbroken The Argo of love and fellowship Continues through twilights dusk t…
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone… Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat… And that faint hint of the absurd—
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hum… equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there t… Here the clam deep in the speckled…
fireworks a primal burst cooing loving birds songbirds mornings
The Color Of Your Ribbon I love the color of your ribbon Speaks life to your hair Sings roses to your smile I love the color of your ribbon.
Evermore Love and Desire I must love you tonight Even as I slumber in the thoughts Of uncertain tomorrow a dream
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
a bed fo’r king Ho Ho Ho ...they go Santa reindeers ...Rudolph go
All this must begin with an apology and not an apologia. When I went wandering about the States disguised as a lecturer, I was well aware that I was not sufficiently well disguised to b...
Tightly-folded bud, I have wished you something None of the others would: Not the usual stuff About being beautiful,
Our shells clacked on the plates. My tongue was a filling estuary, My palate hung with starlight: As I tasted the salty Pleiades Orion dipped his foot into the wat…
Smiling the Smiles Senior Moments You put a pot of water on the stov… Turned on the burner to parboil ha… Chicken for dinner with some green…
