Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

January 4, 2011

Day 365

She was in love with the whole world
He was trying to find the world and saw her
The wind in her hair, the way she twirled
Free visions that began to stir

Dreams were drenched that wonder year
In sounds that only spoke in color
Side by side there, they knew no fear
Delighting in shaking the rule they were under

And so it was they were caught in an array of tales
That were not planned in any way at all
Filling the wind of their childish sails
Slowly daring to break down the wall
They made beautiful mistakes in the town
That leaked in tears across the pages of time
Started by wicked joys that pulled the stars down
Turning every moment into the perfect rhyme

He watched her with the eyes of awe, no words to speak
She lived the only way she knew, in love with the world, not a person
The day turned into many a sunshine bleached week
In those days the creativity had only just begun

So he went about capturing the moon
Just that she may reveal its strange light
All they said was with the essence of a tune
One that darkened day and illumined night

Seasons waxed and waned in time with growing
Sunflowers once green as emeralds began to droop
Less was given space, and they stopped knowing
Once inspiring moments could be found on loop

But the golden days returned in fields of hope
That flung words into the sky of freedom
Stringing beads, words and places upon the rope
That lasso-ed the wonders of their kingdom

And now the photographer with the poet at his side
Is pulling forward the messages of rhythmic deeds
Together they fade into the horizon, as the ocean’s tide
Destined to leave a healthier ground for inspiration’s seeds

November 2, 2010

Day 302 - Naughty at the Seaside

Dedicated to my Daddy who read the book a million times over to me

Tell me the story again, she pleads
Sifting the sand between her toes
The one where they get caught up in the sea weeds
Nodding she can see that Daddy knows
So he puts on the funny face he saves
For only the best and most heroic tales
In which the adventurers hide in caves
Quickly pulling down their give-away sails
She walks on proudly sure she is the one
Who shall master the pirate's vast ship
A perfect day in the seaside sun
Water bright blue inviting a dip
Into tales of pirates who the wide world roam
Nothing else in the stories ever felt so like home

October 19, 2010

Day 288 - Ash That Remains

The sign read "אהבה"
But you couldn't understand it
So it meant nothing to you
When the bombs hit
Maybe a give-minute clip
Of the death toll rising once again
But that is all it meant to you
You couldn't read the sign

The sign read "l'espoir"
Which was as foreign to you
As a night without explosions
You had dreamed once of such a thing long ago
But since then you only hit the button
The one that ignites the flame somewhere
And sends the sparks of hatred into the sky
You couldn't read the sign
The sign read "शांति"
You only saw some bizarre drawing
You did not even recognize it to be lettering
Painted with meticulous patience
In the only colors they could find
Blood red for the many tragedies seen
But bright yellow for the sun still shining
You covered it in the gray of ash
You couldn't read the sign

The sign read "love"
And they torched it seeming demons
In the malicious point of the "v"
The sign read "hope"
The button they pushed was as red as yours
But with a greater diameter of destruction
The sign read "peace"
But even if you had spoken their tongue
That you could not have translated
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Note from the Poet
Stanza 1 - Hebrew for love - אהבה pronounced ahavah
Stanza 2 - French for hope - l'espoir -
Stanza 3 - Hindi for peace - शांति - pronounced shanti

April 13, 2010

Day 99 - Boston Books

Boston Books

Dedicated to book lovers everywhere,
And especially to Simone, Rachel and Jacqueline

A world of wonder awaits you here
Love stories and tales of fear
Welcome you to leap into it all
The beckoning poetic call
Of books to brighten every light
The lines straight, in black and white
Caress the mind of timidity
Knowledge is always free
Yet bound within these endless tomes
Are the makings of the perfect homes
For those who spy and in wonder live
In the stories these books have to give