Ark
when the Ark Of The Covenant kicks into action
it's a contraption
generating
ball bursts insighting
perceptions and wisdom
saul* could have used
when he encountered
that question from a cloud.
for for millennia
a dilemma
has been
that that cloud
never got the right reply
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Fixation On Blue
in kandinsky's* quest
to catch st. george
he knew
blue was best.
and can we not
still hear yeats#
tap tap tapping
from tombstone-
cast cold eye
on life on death?
so who am i
to dispute
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Physics Of A Rose
an intelligent photon
once dropped in
for an intelligent conversation
on the head of a pin
but the photon was fooled
by the question it posed.
a....... b
are they connected?
linearly?
or is it relatively
possible
a vertical
axis is present?
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Goose Steps Up My Spine
millions starved to death:
missiles fired overhead.
sea games with seoul
under nato* control.
pyongyang power ill prince
trotting past mad troops.
when he stands in his suit
generals all about salute
and smirk.
quaint peasants in rows
step goose bumps up my arms
for as far as totems go
it's grim as stalin
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Hongkong Batman
in one corner of ring
stood deng xiaoping; *
dwarf of man,
giant's fist for hand.
in other corner of show
general patten# all aglow,
fresh from victory
for the tory party-
twixt two twas tossed
black figure in mask
rubber stretch tights below-
batman stole the show!
i love
kids cartoons
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GUT Feeling
i believe
GUTs* have got
more to do
with what
st. francis# knew
the night
he lit up assisi,
encased in his own
private Light cone,
accelerated
on the force of myth.
or with what
avila teresa*# felt
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Kowloon Kundalini
kowloon.
fluorescent snake
coiling round
shrimp soaked sea
folded and poised
to greet or strike:
lines
of uniformly dressed
schoolchildren
reciting by rote
words
of long-dead poet:
chopped
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Sonnet 9
between the action and pattern;
between conception and produce;
between the antique and modern;
between the simple and abstruse;
between now and when eternity began;
between the estate and heritage;
between zion and islam;
between single state and marriage;
between the symbol and history;
between perspective and reality;
between knowledge and mystery;
between the image and ontology,
life encounters the synapse.
arcing this, it synapse gaps!
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Sonnet 16
when words will not you move
nor my heart persuade to unfortify,
but as stone your image proves
against words image must qualify,
when music, the speech of soul,
and poetry, the soul of speech,
by you will not my mind school
nor my soul new poetry teach,
when love, the cultivation of heart,
struck by your love to heart strings,
will not from you new poetry impart
what surety of trust does love bring?
departed, these words to you ascend:
so departed, will you new words send?
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