2022

2022

The first sunset over a Texas bay

in decades

where are the mountains?  

i suddenly missed the mountains i lived by

those eternal canvasses of light, shadow, desert heat and winter's snow caps

moving water pushed by winds unrelenting

drifting snow rushing to its resting place

so alike in rage and power 

so different in taste and feel

move the water to the mountain it becomes snow 

move the snow to the bay it becomes water

eternal are the lights, shadow, and wind

to be only a man in snow

to be only the singular in water

we are shadow and wind

a witness to the mountain

 Al Mendoza, January 2022

LOSE

LOSE

because you don’t live there anymore

you lose nothing

in the moment of creation there's change

when the music has played there’s silence

when the breeze passes there’s stillness

in the laughter

and in plain sight

while the love makers touch

creation matters not

silence is the music

stillness becomes the breeze

to play at laughter

and lose nothing

when moment is creation

there in the play is change

because you don’t live there anymore

you walk and lose nothing

A. MENDOZA, 12/2018

LOSE

LOSE

because you don’t live there anymore

you lose nothing

in the moment of creation there's change

when the music has played there’s silence

when the breeze passes there’s stillness

in the laughter

and in plain sight

while the love makers touch

creation matters not

silence is the music

stillness becomes the breeze

to play at laughter

and lose nothing

when moment is creation

there in the play is change

because you don’t live there anymore

you walk and lose nothing

A. MENDOZA, 12/2018

WINTER SOLSTICE

Winter solstice

in the bright sunlight and the clear desert sky

with no clouds for the sky to paint

save for the water coloring on the mountains

as the sun flows across the landscape

shadowing the cactus making spots

and the leopard that runs across the sands

towards the snow peaks towards the glow

and disappears in light

a brightness running to cover

and blanket twilight with music lights

stars patient in their watch for the moon

stars moving in that slow dance

that feels like love

A. MENDOZA, 12-2018

WINTER SOLSTICE

Winter solstice

in the bright sunlight and the clear desert sky

with no clouds for the sky to paint

save for the water coloring on the mountains

as the sun flows across the landscape

shadowing the cactus making spots

and the leopard that runs across the sands

towards the snow peaks towards the glow

and disappears in light

a brightness running to cover

and blanket twilight with music lights

stars patient in their watch for the moon

stars moving in that slow dance

that feels like love

A. MENDOZA, 12-2018

8

 

8

the octave
8 notes
8 days of the nativity
a music and 8 in octets
the music of birth
2 bodies that make 8 limbs

one sound
the harmonies layers
4 twins
discovering enlightenment
in death
and living to talk about it
in the scales
of one and two

in the balance now weighed

for magic
and out of the hat
to discover enlightenment
and in the sound
above the layers
speaking in music
noting all 8

in 4 twins
dividing death from enlightenment
and living to talk about it
listening to the music
the birth in harmonies
layers of discovery
every octet one sound
the music of birth

and living to talk about it
the scales in the weight
and the magic two
a note 

an octave
in the balance
dividing from enlightenment
death

A. Mendoza 12-2017

 

8

 

8

the octave
8 notes
8 days of the nativity
a music and 8 in octets
the music of birth
2 bodies that make 8 limbs

one sound
the harmonies layers
4 twins
discovering enlightenment
in death
and living to talk about it
in the scales
of one and two

in the balance now weighed

for magic
and out of the hat
to discover enlightenment
and in the sound
above the layers
speaking in music
noting all 8

in 4 twins
dividing death from enlightenment
and living to talk about it
listening to the music
the birth in harmonies
layers of discovery
every octet one sound
the music of birth

and living to talk about it
the scales in the weight
and the magic two
a note 

an octave
in the balance
dividing from enlightenment
death

A. Mendoza 12-2017