BLACK VERSE

A Visit to Andalusia

Black Verse (Pt I)

To Ms. H. W.

Comfortable conventionalisms

when life is easy and art is difficult

and art that follows life

is as easy as what and who--

me and you

U & I

as black verse rhymes and rules after rap

and blank verse doesnot after Ferrex and Porrex.

Xanadu (Oflangstonhughesfame) for Blogspot.Com (April 2006)

Beautiful Brows

Easy End Rhyme

two darkish nights of moon crescent each

equals a chat with her month like a peach

featuring girlish brows in soldier's dress

talks and tells about fighting to a less

barrette neatly cut to hair and skin

tail carefully caught in Chinese pin

straight and tightly wrapped in uniform's code

she explains how life came to people's vote

she fell in love with a man in a clinic

and brought up the fruit of love's lyric

now and then she vows she won't ever fight

to carry on life to Heaven's highest light

Xanadu (Ofcamöesfame) for Blogspot.Com (April 2006)

(Thanks to Lisboa)

Young and Holy Is A Family

Clad in Roman speech and litanies

seminude out of fallen draperies

they show a baby to a world of grace

holding each other in slender embrace.

As large their posture as small there child

as rough the clothes as tender as it is wild

covered by graffiti of a new generation

they win on future from former foundation.

Silent as if hit by mystery and wonder

they find comfort only in trinity's yonder

as drawn to life's responsibilities

they await God's perfect abilities.

Xanadu (Ofvaticanfame) for Blogspot.Com (April 2006)

(Thanks to Lisboa)

Gates of Hope

Gates of Hope
Hebrew Calligraphy


So he made two doors of olive-wood; and he carved
upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and
open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he
spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the
palm-trees.
1 Kings 6:32

My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna-flowers
In the vineyards of En-gedi.
Song of Solomon 1:14

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory
thereof as the flower of grass. The grass
withereth, and the flower falleth ....
1 Peter 1:24

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the
word of our God shall stand forever.
Isaiah 40:8


It reads it says it inscribes
like a flower bed an embellished graffiti-—

It starts off in an open arch
it builds angelic and angular curves unto
a quotation mark of smallest punctuation--

Hovering in the air like a bird
next to Tree of Life that grows on to
A final Resurrection of Peace and Double U
where floral cups of almonds and lilies
pomegranate henna and olive
may stand out in pairs and Trinity
in twos and threes of golden gold
just adjacent to good luck lock
that closes your view from insides
to Shaara Tiekwa Synagogue in Lisbon.

Xanadu (Ofnginafame) for Blogspot.Com (Easter 2006)
(Thanks to Jean-Paul II 1901 American Standard
Version (ASV) Song of Salomon 1:14 1 Kings 6:32
1 Peter 1:24 Isaiah 40:8)

trinity of poetry [p = 3!]

trinity of poetry [p = 3!]

(i)

one poetry

poems are where and when
verse lines halt and how they go
on and on a gain

(ii)

poetry too

poems are what and which
words reason rhyme rule and why
they relate to sense

too poetry

poems are what and which
words rhyme rhythm and rule and why
they relate to sense

(iii)

poetry thee

poems are who and whom
they are about, whom they are
to, too, and by whom

thee poetry

poems are who and whom
they are about and whom they
are to(o) and by whom

thee poetry thee

poems are who and whom
they are around and whom they
are to and by whom

Xanadu (Oflorcafame)
4 Huerta de San Vicente (March 2006)
(Thanks to e e cummings and Casa-Museo Federico García Lorca Granada Andalucía)