tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156667212009-02-20T16:21:31.876-08:00Authornoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15666721.post-1148997022760616062006-05-30T06:49:00.000-07:002006-05-30T07:51:06.566-07:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt;font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;font-size:78%;" >...and now for something completely different...</span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt;font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt;font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >With the fairies</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt;font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt;font-family:courier new;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Butter-cream yellow</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">walls of rain, </span><o:p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">whistling like flowers<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Heather wings hang on silken threads<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">falling as a rope ladder to the moon<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Drifting amidst the ocular cloud-<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">towers, arms tower, head is a large glass bulb <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Planted in the roof-top of the world is <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">where we dance a mélange of song-boats & <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Aquamarine</span> wiser for lakes of folklore<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">unfold secret microcosms of universe.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">I pare apples & dangle the peels in my hair<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">romantic notions of howling wilde beasts <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Shining in Swedish ultra-sway night<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">remembered because of which I am<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Who is hearing wild dogs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">barking, it enters me<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">& if we followed you all night<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt;font-family:courier new;"><span style=";font-size:130%;color:black;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >we’d arrive at day.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt;font-family:courier new;"><span style=";font-size:130%;color:black;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:courier new;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15666721-114899702276061606?l=sakhi2005.blogspot.com'/></div>Authornoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15666721.post-1139941776862575342006-02-14T10:27:00.000-08:002006-05-30T07:03:07.826-07:00<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:78%;" >....and now for something completely different....</span><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;">(London finally surfacing)</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Present Tense</span><br /></p><p></p><p><br />And now, suddenly the weather</p> <p>is behaving as if it were Fall</p> <p>sneaking into the heat of a summer</p> <p>that was perpetual in that silken way</p> <p>that caresses skin burnt hot in the sun</p> <p>I sit on a bench reviling the pigeons;</p> <p>Wishing.</p> <p><br /></p><p>Steadily the acres of forest have grown</p> <p>thick in my mind such that I stare</p> <p>out of my eye-sockets at the road</p> <p>& see nothing but leaves</p> <p><br /></p><p>The cars have disappeared</p> <p>even though I hear their engines</p> <p>There is nothing but still space</p> <p><br /></p><p>Absence, a large hole</p> <p>&amp; me and a man with flaking skin</p> <p>sitting on a bench in Belsize Park.</p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">August 15,2005</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15666721-113994177686257534?l=sakhi2005.blogspot.com'/></div>Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15666721.post-1125420374386852512005-08-30T09:45:00.000-07:002005-08-30T09:46:14.390-07:00CITY<br /><br />Skyscraper, blue<br />tango pass night<br />plumes leather<br />head catch elevator<br /><br />Tunes, catch word<br />hoard blanket over<br />skyscraper jelly<br />wish eye scratch<br /><br />Ball, every hair<br />traffic float blue<br />earth lounge visit<br />gash light calm<br /><br />Speck, turning.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15666721-112542037438685251?l=sakhi2005.blogspot.com'/></div>Authornoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15666721.post-1124713316569597712005-08-22T05:11:00.000-07:002005-08-22T06:22:22.586-07:00<div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">burn the deck</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">the muse </span></div><div align="right"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="right"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">obtuse<br /></div></span><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">is not<br /></div></span><div align="right"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="right"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">quiet</span></div><div align="right"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and behead </span></div><div align="right"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">quiescent</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></div></span><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="right"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">the silent</span></div><div align="right"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">noose</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">bedeck<br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15666721-112471331656959771?l=sakhi2005.blogspot.com'/></div>Authornoreply@blogger.com0