Invisible birds

My Pictures: Last night I was taken to a farm, just outside Xinxiang….a very special place. An organic farm…I talked with the farmer and local people….and found a little solitude in the Chinese countryside.

Sun and East all around,
something started in my soul.

Orange headed Magpies,
perched across the tiled roofs.

Ducks and chickens mingling in sun,
a walking farmer watches.

Mists from chilled sweat peas,
and vines climbing the walls.

Passing briefly between us all, the sun.
Full blown and obliging, pathway in and then out.

Sorrows of the breath

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My Picture: An early morning drawing.

Shudder in the dark

a drunken moon serenades me slow.

Craving more than in the last life,

like water dripping through dreams of love.

 

Her soul in my eyes

tells me nothing’s left to fear.

A doorway to stir in new hope,

that pedals forward inch by inch.

The stranger

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My picture: Another doodle….but a self-portrait of sorts.

Strange how fast night comes,
a solid sound as jaded faces melt.

Then the night shivers out
an early morning drift, like a sigh.

In the wink of an eye,
a world cowed by wind and rain.

A summer’s backward glance,
and broken shells in disarray.

Tokens of regret left all around,
but dreams forget to come.

And sleeping now, life is sweet
all tucked inside dawn’s blue light.

 

See me as I am

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My Picture: I am going through a phase of adding my drawings to my poems…another example.

A friend asked me about pain,

I told him I know something.

“A new diagnosis, an enduring ailment

and then the real pain comes”

He seemed satisfied,

that my heart was dark enough.

Cancer Days

My pictures and my drawing….reflecting on another time…another place…so far away.

All day long,
marking medical papers.
Divisions of cells,
seasons of mutations
and angel crowns.

Meditated by a yellow bird,
gently touching a sick wife.
The sickness is me,
I hope you’re not lonely.

When life has left

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My picture of my drawing.

Her hair tells a story,
a geisha dance to the world.
Enough winters gathered
and lips turned icebergs.

Her blue sleek steps,
once a soul to our time.
Now withered memories
of pain thrown, and pale loss.

The sound of noise

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My Picture: A simple doodle in my journal……

All morning I’ve been thinking.
I wonder about the trees, the flowers and
the noise outside my window.

Sometimes I watch the trees sway,
always humble and kind.
Do the flowers have mountains to climb?
It can’t be easy having the white clouds watching over them.

And the noise, always the noise
it never gets away, until we lose the measure of life.