OTI: Seven Poems and Notes 4/2/16

Open To Interpretation

 

In Town

 

In Town,
Solitude can be so complete
Only cashiers acquaint.
Oh, a favorites smile
I haven't seen awhile,

Gone...
Some other window
She waves her cheer...

Monk

 

You mustn't end the negotiations
Having learned my monkish ways;
Who knows,
It could be a disguise!

Morning Doves

 

In the Spring
Morning Doves
Cucu cu
Cucu cu
Uu u

Trojan Women

 

They booted the boys
From the soccer stadium
For miss behaving,
And admitted just the girls and children
To cheer and sing and chant.
I had wondered just to hear you
Not drowned out
By the likes of me.

 

Doors

The artists' artistry in the cathedrals
Allures,
But never so anxious to enter those doors
As yours.

What's Common

 

It's not what's rare
But what's common
I want to share all day with you.

Harness

 

You're in harness
By school
By work.
By some quirk,
I can sleep all day
In this modern opium dream.
Aged, it's all I'm good for,
My harnesses removed,
Except for yours.

DolphinWords

 

Notes:  I was reading a post, and New Yorker magazine link, about the Cascadia Fault, and the foreseen events of such an earthquake, and I thought to add in the comments, the fault off the coast of Europe, forget what it is called, near the Canary Islands, that could send a tsunami to the East Coast, much as the Cascadia sent tsunamis to the Pacific Northwest, and Japan, in 1700...oh, I've written about these in the blog before...I get worked up worried after reading such, after seeing disaster movies, after watching episodes of Madam Secretary...I was born in 1948...I wonder if any record of the 1700 tsunamis is in the logs of the Spanish Black Ships going to and fro to the Philippines...

 

I really like the Trojan Women poem...came on it by following out youtube clips of soccer stadium chants and songs (from post a few days back), one with just girls and children...the stadium was in Turkey...

 

my generation has better, they just were never nurtured, so, offered up has been the likes of Bushes, Clintons, Trumps, McCains, Kerreys, Sanders, and the like...apologies to youth...but Orpheus gifted us with music, our only hope...Obama I thought, heralded youth's enthusiasms, change, but now we've awfully slipped back...I'll miss him much...

 

:)

 

DavidDavid