poetry in motion

poetry

Utterance
(to DanAE)

I speak in the tongue of sampaguitas
and cloudless blue tropic skies
While you speak a language of tulips
and rolling verdant fields
And yet - despite the polarity
of our born voices
we speak the same poetry
that inhabits our constant souls
And beneath the veneer
of brown or fair skin
our Spirits are One
and shine with the same radiance
of verse and inspired word
And while the miles serve
to keep our Selves apart
we bridge the gap
with line and ryhme
And we speak in voices
that transcend meaning.

Ritual Birth
by Raymond Maribojoc

To spring
dusk past twilight the
Scented
breeze sultry with woodsmoke
And
unsacramented incense
To partake
of swollen dew-seeds
Fallen
tearlike through clenched
Loamed
fingers and touch the pulse of
Murmured
and trickled mute brooks
Past
weathered grass caressed with makahiya
Feathers
and palm the heaved fruits rosened
Peaked
to the flush of lighted candlewicks
Dancing
to the wail of unseen bamboo flutes
Plow, then-
the unrocked furrows of
Fresh
damp unsown earth fertile...
When Into Infinity The Moment Stretches Beneath White From A Half-risen Half Moon And The Molten Gold Of A Half-sunken Sun Mingled Sweated Into A Soft Silk Carpet of Stars and-
And
outside the nocturne crickets
Drone
their lullabies in unceasing
monotone.

Void
by R Maribojoc

We

love

our minds
entwining
into mergence-

our mouths
rounding
oh's; soundless

our limbs weaving
weaving
patterns indelibly

as we fall
into each other
when-

we

love.

Serenade
by R Maribojoc

Do you listen, I wonder
to the soft lilting music
of the dusk-
the flight of trees winged
with verdant feathers?

Or do you dance
the slow stately waltz
of rainclouds, hung
low, dark and heavy
over the stillness of your eyelid?

When the sund's warm lips
brushed against yours
did you greet the newborn morn
with the endless harmony
of your eternal soul?

Love-

be-

that dawn
that sky
that tree,
that ever would reach for the firmament
of your reflection.

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