Tag: poetrycontest
member name: El Toro Bravo de Amor
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July 26, 2007 09:05 PM EDT --
Red Eye
High across the valley
my neighbor’s awake
In his cockpit of light.
A late shift poet maybe?
Catching the red eye
To the next metaphor.
Gripping the stick
with thumb and fingers.
Fighting . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:17 PM EDT --
you got what you wanted
now you’re perched on a twig
blue as a piece of fallen sky
bereft of swing and mirror
without a seed to your name
you saw a chance and took it
an open door, . . .
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July 23, 2007 12:47 AM EDT --
Hummingbird
You bright and burning fuse
Living spark from the anvil of God
His name barely fits on your tongue.
You tongue of pentecostal fire
Arrowhead of jade from a sunbeam's . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
border crossing-
a northbound storm changes
nationalites
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July 18, 2007 12:20 PM EDT --
God has an eye
in the hurricane of your soul
he floats there
while you storm around
your spiraling years
raging at every horizon
about abandonment
he floats there
and like a bird-shaped kite, . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
It’s a legend of course
And may just be a tale-
The story of the poet who
Accidentally riveted himself
Inside the double meaning
Of a poem he had built.
He disappeared
That much is certain.
And . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:27 PM EDT --
world map-
a sunbeam warms
the arctic circle
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