Friday, May 3, 2013

water snake



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Water snake

Come!!!!
swim with me
in the cress
of nameless want

Bell toed one,
You! On the
planked beach
Come!!

Bring your white belly
to settle
unsettled stone
Only


To swim
with your head
above water
And your mouth
open.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Curtains



Curtains so sheer
the April sky bleeds through
grey and ponderous
I sleep alone
not even the cat
approaches
Pulses  leap
in the stone silence
a knocking
The April sky bleeds through
curtains so sheer

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Henri le Chat Noir



 Written for Raven's Worzzle.
 http://ravensviews.blogspot.com/


Words for this week's 10-word challenge:  ennui, stars, salivate, charisma, perpetual, stupid, measurement, triangle, obsession, bother  And for the mini: gross, glorious, red ribbon, keys, sharp
This wordzzle was inspired by Henri le chat noir who ponders the meaning of life.
A triangle lies on one side while its hypotenuse sags from the weight of  pretense.”  A quote attributed to Henri le chat.

Henri 2, Paw de Deux

Filmed in atmospheric black and white, this clip feature the world-weary and cynical Henri, a terribly serious little cat who reflects upon the ennui of modern life with resigned, existentialist despair. In French. With subtitles. 
Earned first place in first international cat video film festival, 2012.  Minneapolis, MN.  USA


Ennui

J’entend les mots
Du chat Henri
What is this life
But rank ennui?

A bald cadence
Where obsessions reign
Stupid, ancient
Glorious ,vain.

Measurements
Of gross demeanor
Futile now as
Hearts grow leaner

The knife is sharp
The keys are flat
According to
One weary cat

Why all this bother
To salivate
Cold fish again
Predictably late.

A frizzed red ribbon
Catnip filled mice
Glittery balls
Meant to entice

Charisma, swag
So overrated
Moi, je prefere
What’s understated

But I grow tired
Of all this rhyme
Perpetual  iamb
And metered time

The languid rays
Of morning light
Disturb a nap
Bring back the night!


J’entend les mots
Du chat Henri
The stars go darK
Epistrophy

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Henri le chat



Hi. I have not been posting regularly.  My muse is on sabbatical.

However, this past week, Raven’s word selection aroused her to write a silly rhyme inspired by Henri le Chat Noir.  If you haven’t met Henri le cynique or Raven the  gifted and tender, please consider visiting:

All the best!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

All but for one leaf



"If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?”
Annie Dillard, The Maytrees



A rock
dozes in the sun
A young sky
blinks
And rain traverses
a rutted face
Carrying away
grit, dust, dreams
The rock gives up
these parts of itself
without protest
(You could say
that the rock
has lost its integrity)


A person in a life time 
amasses 
reams of wrongs
Undeniably suffered
grievances
So many uncountable
Swelling
Unutterable
Things
Slop over the
deckled edge


My mind today
is bare as the trees are
Bare
beneath a tufted sky
All but for one leaf
dangling
crimson
translucent




Written for One Single Impression, "struggle"