June 19, 2010

• Some poetry

  This new poem was sort of written as a response to some poetry I was reading today.  I’ve been reading a lot of poets this spring and summer that I hadn’t gotten around to yet.  So anyway, without any further adieu…

   

   

   

  Thinking on Ferlinghetti’s #34

   

   

  Singers are poets too
  at least, I look at it that way
  and like the wordsmiths

  (and the surfers)

  they are seeking the eternal rhythm
  the lilt of the syllables connected together
  caressing the tide of music floating beneath

  they, too, seek to interpret
  the world through sound and language
  the echo of resonance and vernacular

  the voice for them is the rolling wave of sea
  the buoyancy of timbre and harmonics
  bobbing on the surface tension of a melody

   

  • 2:20 pm
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