poetry pages

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here you will find some of my poetry... i have made some attempt to categorize it, loosely, by topic.

for me, poetry is an attempt to say what i cannot say in linear speech; a kind of meta-language; the closest thing i can find in language to the polyphony that is possible in music.

i should also preface this collection by saying that i use poetry as a kind of emotional catharsis, as i'm certain is true of many other poets. as such a particular poem is most likely an accurate depiction of the state of mind, when i wrote the poem, although it may not be, and is probably not the way i am thinking all the time!

58th Street Poems & Other Cityscapes

manhattan random abstractions non-poem
poetry from the mind of insanity
could she be his venus?
hammond spinet in the living room
Cityscape # 1
Cityscape # 2
Cityscape # 3
Cityscape # 4

Of Faith and Philosophy; Joy and Sorrow; The Wonder of Life

oh how very wonderful
canticle for night
elegy for ash wednesday
what deepest cold?
dark
far from poetry
slimey questions
jesus, filled with light
chronos
Queries
three times i am beautiful
i was awakened by a prayer for you
Another Birdsong

Remotely Political

be careful on the streets of orange
the giant
Anger for Abel