Self Portrait #1
March 28, 2012 in Poetry, Wordsmoker
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by tristantzara
The Ash Pile
March 22, 2012 in Poetry
The Wild Hunt
I have been a poet
starting a rhythem
long ago. It was a little past
three hundred creature-years
when I got going.
Ancestry
March 21, 2012 in Poetry
Ancestry
To rise,
the red light
escapes neatly
placed folds on fabric.
To escape,
the pantheon compares
tactics to young visionaries.
spectrum of shape compete Read the rest of this entry →
by tristantzara
A Prayer in Black and Blue
March 9, 2012 in Poetry
“I love the rose that is not a rose,
but the second I try to speak it, any name
for God becomes so-and-so and vanishes.”
-Rumi
Calligraphy in the morning. A bell, a candle, beads.
Ink-stained fingers that ache and peel. Read the rest of this entry →
by tristantzara
Empty Hands Part Five – Oh Lord Stuck in Samsara Again . . .
December 31, 2011 in Life, Philosophy, Poetry
Thinking you hold the root,
you hold only a branch,
a stem – why not let your hand
become a hand again
empty as the root you seek
– Peter Levitt
by perverseus
Let Me Die In Spring
November 10, 2011 in death, Poetry
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Let me die in spring,
Perhaps before the rains
With the promise of new life whispering
Through the trees.
This is not a metaphor for life,
As I have arguably reached my autumn
And I think winter will hold many pleasant surprises.
Spring is a matter of convenience.
Haunted Hooters
November 1, 2011 in Poetry, Scary!
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Today
it was a Hooters girl
with your smile.
One of the guys says
She looks evil.
Horns reach
for the sky
from the corners
of her lips
and for a moment
I forget
you are lost
to me.
The Throne
October 27, 2011 in Poetry
I certainly am
a constellation of
of your interpretation;
then, in cold prayer
of Fe, something
is broken
Quetzal
August 18, 2011 in Poetry
If I get up early, I can have coffee and a cigarette
at the café on Polk Street before work. It goes:
Order, pay.
Brown sugar.
Half & Half.
Cinnamon. Stir. Read the rest of this entry →
