Sunday is upon us again, which means more original poetry for Original Poetry Sunday, the excellent idea hit upon by Sandra Leigh of the excellent Amazing Voyages of the Turtle blog. My offering is the latest in my series of ghazals.
I believe the following blogs (at least) are “officially” participating this week, but everyone’s welcome:
The Amazing Voyages of the Turtle
Poetikat’s Invisible Keepsakes
Secret Poems from the Times Literary Supplement
Yes is Red
You also can find daily poems at Apogee Poet, & frequent poem postings at Keeping Secrets, Pics & Poems (there’s a very good one up there today already). Dominic Rivron posts some very good poems, tho not on any regular schedule, & the same can be said for TotalfeckingEejit & Mad Aunt Bernard of Mad Aunt Bernard’s Tortoise Poetry, as well as Willow of the popular Life at Willow Manor. There are also poems occasionally on the excellent blog Radish King, which is written by poet Rebecca Loudon, & which always contains very high quality writing, & also on Premium T., which, like Radish King is well worth a visit whether there’s a poem posted or not.
Of course, there are any number of poetry blogs out there, but these are ones within my experience. Hope you get a chance to visit them & enjoy their poetry.
“the past didn’t go anywhere”
the story I told about the mourning dove’s coo in
the draw a low grey clarinet note washed over by
sparrows’ silver chatter the grapefruit sunrise the one
pink poppy coming awake amongst orange poppies the
irises purple & yellow & maroon a metal spiral
staircase outside an old white farmhouse a teardrop
mandolin posed on the lawn near the young catalpa’s
teardrop leaves—the story I told about red red shoots of beb
willows in the draw & the stream’s liquid song thru the
underbrush a purple chord on an archtop guitar in a per-
petual evening—& the lilacs’ whispering evening even at
6 a.m.—the story I told about the mourning dove’s coo in the
beb willows & the sparrows’ rippling conversation—ok
I know “the past didn’t go anywhere”—the stream’s liquid
song the cowbirds’ liquid song a horse trailer rattling up the
dirt road—the story I told didn’t go anywhere in
the grapefruit sunrise—traveling into the past to avoid
death—we talked about that & sex which is perpetually
now—the mourning dove’s gray coo in the grapefruit
sunrise wasn’t the past it was a memory drenched in the
stream’s liquid song over slate grey rocks where per-
petual past & future embrace in a liquid moment
John Hayes
© 2009
quote is from folksinger/songwriter Utah Phillips