Tuesday, March 28, 2017
King
The lone boy banged
His stick against the
Wall percussively
Summoning the tribe.
Yet no one came -
Climbed upon
The flat sunny green
Garage roof -
Sat cross-legged
As a chieftain
Gazing timelessly
And dreamily
Over his domain
Ruler of the land .
I watched him ,
Knew him and loved him -
He was myself .
Friday, March 17, 2017
Footnote to the poem below The word daemonic, is aword that is not even found in all dictionaries > From what I understand of the word is, the daemon is a certain essence - of a place or of a person- the deeper essence of oneself, even ones genius- something that is neither good or evil - and thats why one cannot find it in the dictionary - too difficult . But its the driving force of our lives !Its as if all our lives we are driven by some unknown energy of which, what we think of as the personality is only a small part And that is our daemon ..
Dad
My father was how a
Father should be,
Tough, inscrutable,
Volatile,
And daemonic.
Before he died ,he asked
Me to plant his beloved
Sweet peas in the green house
( although he probably knew,
That he would never
See them flower. )
Upon my wall hangs
A pastel of his,
Of a lightning stricken tree -
Gaunt , with dead branches
Reaching earthwards -
But from its ancient trunk ,
Are burgeoning shoots and leaves -
Birds flying high above
In the heavens .
Yet he, steadfast to the last -
Shunned the vain consolation,
Of souls immortality .
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