I wrote a lot of poetry back during my undergrad days, but once I found that I enjoyed doing fiction more, I never picked it back up (despite filling a huge notebook with well-transcribed versions along with accompanying images). Since Steemit seems to have a thriving (and growing) poetry community, I thought I'd add a little fuel to that particular fire. I hope you enjoy :)
I slept away winter
in a hibernation of avoidance
to prepare for spring awakening,
finding time to describe
to the deaf
the beauty in arpeggios
through hollow tapping,
hand clapping
and the concept of notes
built from mental landscapes.
The construction of fingers
into alphanumeric
shapes and meanings
will never ring as true
as the nuanced
sparrow’s chirp at dawn
or the funeral knells
of church bells rung
to send a spirit home
among noiseless clouds
hell-bent on racing
in forever-nevered circles
of hemispheric marathons
where sun and moon meet
in a silent symphony
of broken sky
and staccato constellations
signaling morning on the mend.
"Arizona"
"Lasso the Moon, George Bailey"
"Sphinx Song"
"Purgatory's Visiting Hours"
"When Atlas Shrugged"
"Christmas in Viet Nam"
"Apocalypsis"
"New Novel, Issue 2, Vol. I"
"Star God (My Final Thread)"
"The Universe is Right on Schedule"
"Absence of God & Time"
"Hale-Bopp"
"I Want Out"
"Good Morning, Creation!"
"Reflected through the Looking Glass"
"Symbiosis"
"Dream of a Dream"
"Azure Interlude"
"Hubris, My Love"
"Sin"
"So Many People, So Little Time"
"Deafening, Shameless Horror of War"
"Weary Traveler"
"Dead Poet Society"
"Untitled, 12.13.05"
"Untitled, 01.17.06"
"Untitled, 01.25.06"
"Untitled, 04.17.06"
"Tongue Painting"
"The Orator of S(kin)"
"Insert A into B"
"Mornings"
"Wake-Up Call"
"As If Hanging in Dreams on the Back of a Tiger"
"Mano Viejo (An Old Hand)"
"...And on the 8th Day"
"Choir of Anvils"
"Paris"
"Epilogue"
"Accident in C Minor"
"Scaring the Stars into Submission"
"Raising Hell in the Garden of Eden"
"The Push"
"Thong Decision"
"Kline in Love"
"Un-"
"Hollow Points, Anonymous Tips"
"Poke, Process, Repeat"
"Healthy Living"
"Natural Selection"
"Icarus"
"The Religion of Ink"
"The Chaos of Thought and Passion"
"Attempting Patience"
"Tongue-Twisted and Blistered"
"Ice Drift"
"Once Every Forever"
"Nude Unbending a Stare-Case"
"No One Smokes Here Anymore"
"First Memories"
"A Lifetime in Tijuana"
"When the World Ends"
"Deaf Market, Blind Speaker"