Archive for March, 2016


Tis!

Existence
is is-ism, isn’t
it?

Chagall 2016

Meddle

I am
in awe
of all.

I name
it God.

Now I’ve
lost the
wonder.

Chagall 2016

August 1, 3:22PM

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Her soul

refrains the great

songs of her past lifetimes

she’ll rest complete, spent, the coda

a hush,

a poem

recited before the last fire,

upturned faces glowing

all fade away:

her time

© Carlos Chagall, 2013

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…I May, Wish I Might

Low-intensity
red stars
around us
everywhere
dim and unseen

The brightest
are fewer
but we see them
no matter how
far away

Yes they’re the first
to burn then fade
flickers at the rim
of time

Since Creation
there’s not
a smaller M-type star
that’s yet died

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She handed me an oar
pointing to the small dugout
there on the bank

Row briskly
downstream
warily

God is
real

Life is naught –
a dream

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Mantra By Murder

I’ve quieted
my inner voice
by holding its head
underwater

an imaginary pond
there in the darkness
immersed until the bubbles
stop

till bright sun fills
the void to dry
up all the water

evaporates
leaves
no trace
behind

no evidence of voice simply
silence

only
now

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The Changing Bead

appear like droplets of mercury
the you at the door

one stands out, lush

the you now
appear to be smaller drops within

all is flux

begins a gradual
not the same final day

slide from the leaf

you know me then
simply changed place

there on the blades

of grass. Again, a single bead
where I’ve gone

but wonder

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I’m surprised
More things
Don’t break

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8 Billion Person March

To those who see
in infra-red
we are all
the same color

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Once

There’s an artist in France
collects heartbeats

Tens upon tens of
thousands of
pulses

Moments in lives of
those who will
in time be gone

Survived
only by these

I wonder does
the data show
if broken hearts
beat softer

Chagall 2016