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Breaded

Dipping his hand into the stream of fate

Ripping seeds from their pods

Putting them on a different path

Grind them fine

Make bread

(Not plants for you no more dear seeds)

Sown in stomachs

Fueling animal belly-fires

Quenching hunger

For now. For now.

Back to the hoe

Back to the grindstone

Back to the oven

Back to the table

(Say that prayer)

That bread

Stiff crust, soft inside

Doughy, squishy

Yet Warm enough from the oven

To melt the butter

(Back to the hoe)

Some will savor that

And say they are satisfied

The seeds of that will feed the body

The love of that bread

Is what feeds the soul

20191016 for my lady, and the prompt at http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/10/poets-united-midweek-motif-food-we-eat.html

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oh, my lord!

what can match this restlessness
when all that needs doing is uncomfortable
and all the fun is empty.
when i turn and turn again
like a certain leopard in the 13th century

what can match this longing
these desperate please
for blessings, assistance,
to see you more clearly.

amid these mountains, the sea, great sweeping plains,
forests of mighty trees, yellowstone, yosemite,
there is no peace.

i’ll cut down that tree, burn the wood,
ten thousand plastic bottles for the sea.
These contributions are not so valuable

in all the wide world, the infinite expanse
there is in me a tiny grain of grief
that minute longing is majestic.

not these words.

20191015

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The sun from Tabriz

Thus I spake

Before I knew of words

Robin and Arthur called

And I ran after,

Through those sun filled meadows

(Looking at the golden grass)

Near to the castle.

The dark forest beaconed though

I pretended not to hear

Satisfied myself with mere apple trees.

(Whence comes that sweetness?)

No idea that god was so near,

Like a snowbank north of the house.

College too receded,

Jobs and tools cane and went

As the computers filled in

Keeping the mystics at bay.

Until Heathers present one birthday.

Thus the sun came again to Konya.

And all the words I thought I knew

Became the babbling of an infant.

Oh god please teach me more!

20191011  – For the prompt at Poets United to respond to a collection that has touched me deeply. The first literary anything that moved me was the tales of King Arthur and Robin Hood, though i didn’t understand then quite how or why, i just knew what i liked.  The grass seemed golden.  In 2015 i found Robert Bly, here i reference his poem Snowbanks North of the House.  Most recently i’ve been infatuated with Jallaludin Rumi, who met his mystic in Konya in the 13th century.

 

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The ant and the computer

Each machine is just a bunch of resources
Memory. . storage . processors
Once they come online, they are snatched away
Like a leaf falling onto the surface
of a swift running stream

Your mind is not your own
Your memory filled with things
That never happens to you
It’s OK though, someone else is thinking
Your thoughts for you

20190926

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E.L.E.

For dinosaurs it was asteroids
Black rhinos murdered for
Traditional Chinese medicine
Passenger pidgeon, hunted for meat
Mastodon = Neanderthal
Smilodon = stuck in tarpits
Great auks for feather pillows
Jamaican giant galliwasp, meeting mongooses
But the extinction level event for
My heart was meeting You

20190923