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New Poems

Last Friday, I participated again in the Collaborative Arts Experiment in Fort Myers. This year, the theme was based around community, beauty, and joy. My group decided to create a piece that reflected a universe vs. Earth perspective, and I wrote two poems (in one week) that were read at the beginning and end of the work.

The first is simply my reflection of the universe and the wonder I feel when looking at the night sky. The second is my attempt to capture the sense of life I often feel surging within me.

You hold in your dark depths
the secrets
of our first breath
wound and wrapped in
your swirling orbs
of light and dust

That stare at me...
A million sparks of glitter and gold

Singing and cajoling
Evolving and revolving...

Shining in the eyes of men
who dream
hope
wait
for the fate and fortune
of foreign travels.

***

Oh mystics and dreamers
and weavers of words...
You carry in your sinew and bone
a celebration
of the sun
of the Earth
the dreams of mankind.

An irrepressible joy--
A spirited song--
not meant to be contained
but shared with the world.

So...
SHOUT!
wake from your slumber...

SING!
this is your world...

DANCE!
this is your life...
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