i'll give you something to chew on,
a piece of fat or bone or this:
when young,
i pulled the wing from the body of
a Monarch butterfly and felt nothing.
i caught a yellow and black bumblebee
with my bare hand
and it stung me, but i didn't cry.
I tossed 6 colorful baby chicks from a 2nd floor
porch on Easter Sunday and
they fell to their death on the black pavement.
i didn't know why they died.
my mother chased me into a small
bathroom and i slammed the wood door
firmly shut
before she could grab me.
i watched her axe blade tear the door apart,
but had no where to run.
my father kicked me when he was angry
and he was always angry.
i got a surprise of Pennsylvania anthracite
coal for Xmas. It was
hard and dusty in a shoe box.
i have a knife tip scar on my right forearm,
but i didn't bleed.
i was a soldier in a war in South Vietnam,
but i didn't get an official purple heart.
i already had one.
Now,
tell me something.
Cotopaxi, Ecuador (summer 2012)
GAMMABLIXT
ReplyDeleteSLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
There's much in the world that you can't explain.
It's revealed for you to remember
by the whispering voice of a distant train
or a midnight rain in november.
Horizon within! You can always find
the keys to Enigma. Let's mention
one basic Truth: of spirited Mind
is Nature naught but extension.
Internal expanses! In dreams, ridden
by fear and longing you roam
that deep Southeast in your soul hidden
...on your random journey back home.
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As a native Swede, I am particularly proud of my love poetry suite Sonnets for Katie.
My Poems
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La présence; un coup de vie morte? non, ce n'est qu'être. Et puis pour l'errante fenêtre: étant vue la nuit, dans tous le coins des rues de la veille la même étoile.
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Poétudes
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Schwarzez birne!
Aufforderung zur Erotik.
Fremde Gedichte
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En el archipielágo del mundo
los recursos son concentrados,
algunos barcos azulos
partieron para la isla más azula.
Uno grito bajo la mesa
vuelca uno cantaro;
visitantes paran
en preguntas silenciosas –
el anacrusa de una tromba
remolinea en la biblioteca.
My Spanish Poetry
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My Laptop Wallpaper Art
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Yours,
- Peter Ingestad, Sweden