Original Poems (& one T.S. Elliot fragment)
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Offered in this zip file I recite an excerpt from T.S. Elliot’s “Lovesong of J. Alfred
Prufrock” and three original poems. - 1. The Promise: Don’t ask for my promise of tomorrow for I wrapped it in a small rag and hid it under some leaves in the woods near your house. I knew I could never find it again and I knew this was my guaranty that you could not take my heart away and pawn it in some frozen market among gaunt and starving merchants among old crates and dust. I wanted your suspenders And all the litter of your free and easy speeches I wanted to collect your wasted words In gilded boxes labeled: Absent. I wanted the days you let yourself be swallowed by the moon. I wanted the pink folds of your forgotten dreams… I only got your shadow And it faded at noon. 2. HIEROGLYPHICS When I called Through light gauze… your Egyptian eye, a Lapis boat sailing up the Nile’s blue fan… afloat the wings of Amon Ra… The savoir sun shines down in bands of gold and turquoise hippopotami, shut tight as the lid of a sarcophagus. Tones of hammered dulcimers were heard… the Pharoah’s on the phone with me… “What news of Hatsephut and Seb? What about the cats and rams? What are these markings in the sand you drew so deftly with side turned hand?” 3. Map I mapped out a song with sacred geometry But it unraveled beyond it’s bounderies… It’s lovely crimson threads unfurled Near puddles..near rivers… Far away from the petty wars and private sins of Solitary men. It’s shape…once a rose in mist… And a background music of foreign bliss Retreated as I walked toward… Kept forever out of reach. Yet I hold on to the elusive lyric And let it define my wistful endings… My hopeful beginings. Contents of ZIP Archive: zip
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