Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts

10/25/2019

Oomm-lette



Oomm-lette


in the meditation of words
 the joy of cooking
as even a clumsy cook knows
you have to breaks eggs
those magic vessels so compleat in their shells

words contained whole
that beg to be broken
those syllables to make sounds for the mind
and become food for the soul

 music when baked or steamed
or grilled in a broiler
not to be touched awaiting the moment
as the mad man waits for words
the anticipation of flavours

A. Mendoza, October 2019




9/19/2019

MUSIC


MUSIC


the bemusement in the eyes

and the pain as the witness

repressed emotions boil over

heated by shame


fuel of memories love

when I was called a good man

when I was told I was loved

completeness that smile,  that joy


now stoked by humiliation

until those embers become ashes

like the ashes of the loved

the bemusement as wind


to witness in horror

how casual that dismissal

of such treasures

by a single breeze


now only a convenience

and casual enjoyment

where once the soul

recited that music


A. Mendoza, 2019








12/07/2016

THE GIFT

 

THE GIFT

 

she left her image behind 
what i found
was her likeness of me
i the mere reflection
and no longer near

tandem incomplete
reading as a gift
a single poetic
the two little books
new pictures for the mind

gentle Hafiz
damaged Kerouac
pained by the obvious
that they can touch

cupped offerings
needing pails
gentle Kerouac
damaged Hafiz
overflows



A. MENDOZA, 2016

 

THE GIFT

 

THE GIFT

 

she left her image behind 
what i found
was her likeness of me
i the mere reflection
and no longer near

tandem incomplete
reading as a gift
a single poetic
the two little books
new pictures for the mind

gentle Hafiz
damaged Kerouac
pained by the obvious
that they can touch

cupped offerings
needing pails
gentle Kerouac
damaged Hafiz
overflows



A. MENDOZA, 2016

 

12/03/2016

BREATH

BREATH



motioned by music
they were all beautiful
they all still are
only one is were

alive motions
all still beautiful

their very breath
is the breathing

music by motion
that very beautiful
alive music

A MENDOZA, 2016




DESTROYED

DESTROYED


I LIKE WRITING WITH PEN AND PAPER

WITH MY DESTROYED HAND

NOT WITH THE OTHER SET

SO UNTRAINED

THE WORK FAILS

FIGHTING DESTRUCTION

UNTRAINED

MISSES THE POINT

WHEN EVEN THE DESTROYED

WORKS

A. MENDOZA, 2016



DESTROYED

DESTROYED


I LIKE WRITING WITH PEN AND PAPER

WITH MY DESTROYED HAND

NOT WITH THE OTHER SET

SO UNTRAINED

THE WORK FAILS

FIGHTING DESTRUCTION

UNTRAINED

MISSES THE POINT

WHEN EVEN THE DESTROYED

WORKS

A. MENDOZA, 2016



BREATH

BREATH



motioned by music
they were all beautiful
they all still are
only one is were

alive motions
all still beautiful

their very breath
is the breathing

music by motion
that very beautiful
alive music

A MENDOZA, 2016




JOY

JOY


amused by my confusion
confused by her amusement
agape wonder

too overwhelmed
to even lust
confused amazement

joy

let no amusement
go unconfused

A.MENDOZA



JOY

JOY


amused by my confusion
confused by her amusement
agape wonder

too overwhelmed
to even lust
confused amazement

joy

let no amusement
go unconfused

A.MENDOZA



12/02/2016

Haiku "Patio"

 PATIO


dots dimpled water
skated by dragonfly toes
dining in winter

popping corn buttered
a December golden night
the fire makes music

season's open boil
the glow, the coals so gentle
no crackle, no flame quiet

A. MENDOZA, 2016



Haiku "Patio"

 PATIO


dots dimpled water
skated by dragonfly toes
dining in winter

popping corn buttered
a December golden night
the fire makes music

season's open boil
the glow, the coals so gentle
no crackle, no flame quiet

A. MENDOZA, 2016



SOMETHING

SOMETHING




often what is learned
comes from what is unknown
a non-learned
not knowing
blissful ignorance
what a walk
to step out of reality

to an unheard music
cannot dance
trapped and frozen
without direction
to no rhythm

no steps to take for steps to make
a paralyzed body
barely breathing
learning to dance is difficult
when you cannot walk

is it deafness
is it ignorance
when you cannot hear rhythm
such is the unreality
of direction

no steps to take 
no steps to make
a paralyzed body
barely breathing
can the unlearned
become the unknown

is the not knowing
a blissful ignorance
outside of reality
heard music
traps rhythm

even a paralyzed body
will breath
to its own beat

the death of ignorance
becomes the death of deafness
you cannot trap and freeze
heard music


somethings outside of reality
somethings blissful ignorance
somethings trapped
somethings frozen
somethings not learned
somethings barely breathing
somethings without music
somethings that are us
will dance



A. MENDOZA, 2016


SOMETHING

SOMETHING




often what is learned
comes from what is unknown
a non-learned
not knowing
blissful ignorance
what a walk
to step out of reality

to an unheard music
cannot dance
trapped and frozen
without direction
to no rhythm

no steps to take for steps to make
a paralyzed body
barely breathing
learning to dance is difficult
when you cannot walk

is it deafness
is it ignorance
when you cannot hear rhythm
such is the unreality
of direction

no steps to take 
no steps to make
a paralyzed body
barely breathing
can the unlearned
become the unknown

is the not knowing
a blissful ignorance
outside of reality
heard music
traps rhythm

even a paralyzed body
will breath
to its own beat

the death of ignorance
becomes the death of deafness
you cannot trap and freeze
heard music


somethings outside of reality
somethings blissful ignorance
somethings trapped
somethings frozen
somethings not learned
somethings barely breathing
somethings without music
somethings that are us
will dance



A. MENDOZA, 2016


11/14/2016

to show


TO SHOW



sheets lined
 star facing toward

windward dropping sails

that say less unfurled

airless wind at a loss

unfilled sails




moonlight by day

never matters more

by night

even when guided

by star light




lite by starlight

surrounding the day unseen

like a dark music

or a windless sail unfurled

airless wind found at a loss

sheets unlined dropped




unfulfilled sails

like a moon by day

patient until the night returns

because light matters most

when the sails are unfurled

to catch the surrounding

dark music



A. Mendoza, 2016



to show


TO SHOW



sheets lined
 star facing toward

windward dropping sails

that say less unfurled

airless wind at a loss

unfilled sails




moonlight by day

never matters more

by night

even when guided

by star light




lite by starlight

surrounding the day unseen

like a dark music

or a windless sail unfurled

airless wind found at a loss

sheets unlined dropped




unfulfilled sails

like a moon by day

patient until the night returns

because light matters most

when the sails are unfurled

to catch the surrounding

dark music



A. Mendoza, 2016



11/06/2016

DOUBLE VISION

Double Vision

mis-understanding a double vision
emotion becomes the moment
only what is felt is left
cold precision of time melts down feeling
when the moment of emotion overwhelms eternity
knowledge freezes the flowing

blind to even what is seen
that flowing frozen time
eternal in its moment
when knowing that what is felt
becomes the reason for what is meant
to be frozen in time
a double vision

clocks over ice
a sweetened drink swirling
frozen moments mixed
what is frozen cannot flood
an emotional ice age
doubly seen as what it is
as what it will it be


eternity's moment overwhelms
a ticking frozen knowledge
mis-understood emotions
melting into moments
in the cold precision of time
swirling like a clock over ice
holding with both hands
a double vision


A.MENDOZA,2016



DOUBLE VISION

Double Vision

mis-understanding a double vision
emotion becomes the moment
only what is felt is left
cold precision of time melts down feeling
when the moment of emotion overwhelms eternity
knowledge freezes the flowing

blind to even what is seen
that flowing frozen time
eternal in its moment
when knowing that what is felt
becomes the reason for what is meant
to be frozen in time
a double vision

clocks over ice
a sweetened drink swirling
frozen moments mixed
what is frozen cannot flood
an emotional ice age
doubly seen as what it is
as what it will it be


eternity's moment overwhelms
a ticking frozen knowledge
mis-understood emotions
melting into moments
in the cold precision of time
swirling like a clock over ice
holding with both hands
a double vision


A.MENDOZA,2016



11/02/2016

A TEMPO PRE-VERSED

"Shaded" A Mendoza, 2004



 


a decider destructiveness 

less perverse as civilized

still elusive and simple

a symphony

a tempo

a monotony
 
 perverse

civilized


magical in-conclusion

essential indecision



heat devolves to ice

light devolves to dark

water hides the clear

devolved light



ice monotony

eludes water

 devolved light

 dissolved in ice

consuming the very air

we float in


a tempo perverse

a rhythmic in-conclusion



decider destructiveness

elusive and simple

as dark and ice

consuming the very air

of a perverse

music



A. MENDOZA, 2016



A TEMPO PRE-VERSED

"Shaded" A Mendoza, 2004



 


a decider destructiveness 

less perverse as civilized

still elusive and simple

a symphony

a tempo

a monotony
 
 perverse

civilized


magical in-conclusion

essential indecision



heat devolves to ice

light devolves to dark

water hides the clear

devolved light



ice monotony

eludes water

 devolved light

 dissolved in ice

consuming the very air

we float in


a tempo perverse

a rhythmic in-conclusion



decider destructiveness

elusive and simple

as dark and ice

consuming the very air

of a perverse

music



A. MENDOZA, 2016