Indeed... Why Not?

why not?
just rip off another
fountain penned attempt.

meanderings of what 
might have been 
a great mind.

60045 7-20-17

Alive in Maslovania

some kinda hierarchy

pyramid of needs

suppressing poems ‘til

their ain’t no more

to worry on and on…

June 2017

Over the Pacific Ocean

Cast in Amber

i should learn chinese

to write a long and beautiful

boldly calligraphed poem about you.

then, I should write

ten thousand more

each one better than the last

it would not be enough…

I would compare you to every flower

I have never seen, extinct,

ancient flowers growing wild

exotically delicate bright colored

so very sweetly fragrant

i would feign, faint, and feint

all confused as in that first seeing you

but it would not be enough…

I would compare you to wondrous

mountains and lakes of such beauty

that only exist in my imagination

maybe in the imaginations of

even greater poets and artists

but it would not be enough

but the simple Armenian lyrics

expressed it best for me

                  give me just one kiss

                  then I could die

but, again, it would not be enough…

June 2017

Bengbu

A Poem During a Lecture on Poetry

wonder
that is the big window
the open window where
airs and scents, dusty bits,
buggy things that fly and crawl,
move in and out
changing our view
thoughts, perceptions, perspectives 
i wonder...

sure, observing,
contradictions and dichotomies
everywhere i look
of dogma and action
the tainting of your reality 
by the filter of my mind,

language
a pallet of watercolors
of painting music in words
almost only one try
one stroke
bad calligraphy
sit...

july 12, 2017
albany park

the aufe art school coffee house

reposed in a coffee house

serene, sipping, reflecting

ruined by the entrance 

of a loud babbling couple

all nouveau but not exactly riche

cell phone talking loud,

loud like long distance used to be

completely unaware 

they were trampling on

my blissful moment

and me, again, swatting flies 

that had finally left me alone

ah.. the ying of it all

oh and the yang

Bengbu
June 2017