POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg JOLLY LUDICROUS DREAMS A wicked viewAll looks anewAlthough untrueI’m laughing too. Some might woo youInto this zooWhere shoes can mooAnd socks are ewes A kangarooIs in pursueBehind a shrewThat stole its goo A Sun tattooSmiles in the blueA bubbling brewComes down as dew More…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg WALKING IN LIGHT Weaving the Invisible into lifeAriadne’s thread denotes the path Cruel the mind’s suspicionRenders innocence perditionRampant Shallowness in exhibitionCalling loud for recognition When the light suffers from inhibitionsGood is shocked into submissionHow to withstand this ill-positionWhen the world claims for hopeful vision…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg IMPERTINENCE Impertinent!One’s Labelled… When you choose your pathImpertinentFor tolerance is as thin as a latch Impertinence!They call it… When you speak from your heartImpertinenceFor smoldering passion is believed to be smart Impertinent!They bawled… At the forthright voice refusing to be silencedImpertinentFor bullies confuse power…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg DETOUR You are here today…Yet, who are you? Trapped in the corollary of familiarity,Unidimensional relatedness,Insipid, toneless expressionOf a longing too afraid to Assert,Profess, DemandOwnership of worth… You are here today…Yet, what for? Around the conspicuous wasteAnd never-ending loops Unfertile soils eroded by Regularity, commonplaceDemureEnduredObscuredStereotype…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg UNANSWERED QUESTIONS If I didn’t have a nameWho would I be?If my skin wasn’t this shade, who would I be?Is my tongue couldn’t speak words,My memory recall people and placeIf there were no lingering thoughts No reason to love,Who would I be? If I…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg AN ECHO OF A MEMORY An echo of a memorythrough cracks in reality slipsThe faint glimmer of a long-lost dreamwith crumbling vestiges of illusionscratching rotten edges in its wake A power with feet of clay precariously swinging on recalcitrant dogmaspertaining a past with unraveled…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg PEACE Elusive thingWhen raised to a bannerYielding masses to agreeMalleableDilutedTemperedAlchemizedIn the fire of ambition and powerObjectifiedAs the price we pay for spilling bloodIn the name of slippery, volatile constructsBurnt to ashes without feathers springing on renewal flight PeaceThe elixir running in the veins of…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg EUCALYPTUS ODE Auld Lang Syne rings The Old squints bravelyAt the bright face of the NewBrimming with possibilityLoved and strangers alike Silently questionThe Past ODE Time Long PastDistant memories remainEvery sloppy kiss,Every glass-clinking toastEvery euphoric hug shared Reflections drowned outby slurred conversationsThe forgotten resolutionsHidden…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg THE PRICE OF A LIFE NOT LIVED I am supposed to put a priceA price to life.How can IIf I don’t knowWhat life is, Beyond To breatheBeyond To feelBeyond To seeBeyond To touchBeyond To taste and smellThe sweet and bitter formsIn which reality presentsWhat…
POETRY IS AND ECHO ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE Carl Sandburg BLOODLINES Compass unseen of Should and of MustBorn of shared sorrows and ancestral dust Roots buried under the canopy of branchesExtending through time and space Intertwined in the bedrock of cultureTwo silent rivers in a verdant frameDraw life’s draught and ghosts of journeys past…