June 23, 2008
Monday Poem
by Jim Culleny
in a blink
the sun comes up
over mountains sublime
and the sea laps its brim like a pup
regal elms come and go
splayed trunks broken by blight
limbs corrupt
future and past collide
winds whistle side by side
bodies touch and often burn up
wars rage
scriptures are taught
good and bad divide
killers are caught
doors open doors shut
in a blink they say
never the twain shall meet
but twains meet
beast and beauty wed,
but news of a split soon spreads:
Truth Divorced From Politician Such & Such
the tabloids eat it upnotions of right and wrong are cinched
in tiny minds that grasp and clinch
and root and rut
love is made
bodies entwine
hate's kicked on its ass so hard
it can't get up
mountains move
the earth erupts
promises are kept
and given up
and odes and fugues
make offers
we shouldn't refuse,
they demand
we not interrupt
in a blink
all of us know
but no one agrees
if mountains are mountains
and trees are trees
if sky is sky
if mud is mud
if wine's just wine
if blood's just bloodeither way
in a blinkin a blink
we drink
it up
Posted by Jim Culleny at 12:16 AM | Permalink
Comments
hey Jim that is a wonderful poem!!!
Posted by: aguy109 | Jun 23, 2008 2:57:07 AM
That's lovely. There's a grocer's apostrophe in the first stanza which you might want to correct though: it's brim should be its brim.
Posted by: Jason Boissiere | Jun 23, 2008 9:25:10 AM
Thanks Jason.
No matter how many times I proof these things, I seem to miss at least one typo.
And, aguy, thanks also.
Jim
Posted by: Jim | Jun 23, 2008 10:51:34 AM
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