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Frustrated
Posted in Poems, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing, tagged Poems, poetry, poets, Writers, Writing on June 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
FACES
Posted in Emotions, Fantasy, Poems, Poetry, The Moon, The Ocean, The Sea, The Sun, Uncategorized, Waking, Writers, Writing, tagged Emotions, Fantasy, Fear, Love, Poems, poetry on May 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
FACES
5/9/2011
Copyright Gordon Kuhn
Poet in the Rain
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Traffic slows, and I, in major working thought, do then suppose,
To try, while the world is in passing, amid birthing, dying throes,
and life’s loves and hates, like ocean waves,
come crashing upon a waiting, aged, and battered shore.
But——for this my curiosity grows,
But for this, but for this, and nothing more;
To introduce questions about issues, life, and things that which
No answers for them can be found, yet how they in power bewitch.
And therefore, in the surrounding still,
as stubbornly my soul will allow, I do question and propose by strength of will,
Else in discontented pleasure of a mixture of regrets would collapse and drown
Would but sink neath the folds of life, and disappear beneath the waiting ground.
Oddly, then, in thought, I am passing the vision intact, and unmasking,
A moment——a spotlighted vagary, licensed to catch up my mind,
Profound and electric as it starts, begins to compose,
While driving and looking out the windowpanes of my car.
A thousand images spring forth at once from both near and far.
Nevertheless, it is the faces in the vision quest that occupy my whimsy this night,
And will haunt my pathway into the coming dawn which, then ablaze in splinters of light,
Will break across the sparkled obsidian garment overhead interrupting the stoic archer
Who, in a locked position, defined by patterned star
Has never let the arrow loose, but then the archer is no true marcher
And from another position in the sky the archer is slain
For such as frozen is when viewed from the top, the bottom, the left
For such the right, the front or the back the original does not remain
And such is the case for changes made to the faces of man and woman cast in light, shadow, or darkness, in the sun, and in the rain.
Those laughing, singing, those sleeping, awake, birthing, dying, dead, and——those in pain.
I find them looking back through the glass from the future, the present, and the past, from up and from down, from side to side
While in my car I do drive as the driver and as a passenger do ride.
Does that matter in the end? The changes along the way?
Are we all so changeable from close and from far?
From birth to death, from smooth to being marked by scar,
I see faces along the path, along the lane, each a centerfold,
Each a separate light, each from a broken, shattered mold
Birthed in liquid we come as chosen to the waiting fold
And with a cut we are set free from the suitcase carried in that we all call: she.
Our mother, our vessel from darkness to light
chosen by some miraculous test of wills that for life will fight
But, I pray thee, think a moment, what if in the fevered search another egg or sperm were there
And they instead had formed a singular conceptive pair
Where would our position, our world, our own star be then?
And what of that pesky problem some like to call “original sin”.
Our birthright in cell chosen made from some divine process we all suppose,
But do you truly know, do the faces really show what was taught,
And what was learned before in death we all repose?
Tee Tyson Reads Poetry
Posted in Emotions, Fantasy, Love, Poems, Poetry, Writers, Writing, tagged Love, poetry, poets, Writers, Writing on April 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Tee Tyson does a fantastic job reading my poetry. And, at the very end she does a surprise reading of one her teenage poems that I think is incredible. She doesn’t really know the strength of her talent. Her poem is striking and her reading of both hers and mine is majestic and done far better than I could have done. Thanks Tee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd-qQIBNetU&feature=share
Enjoy.
Gordon.
TO LET THE MUSIC FLOW
Posted in Fantasy, Love, Poems, Poetry, Writers, Writing, tagged Fantasy, Love, Poems, poetry on April 5, 2011| 2 Comments »
TO LET THE MUSIC FLOW
April 4, 2011
Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn
It’s one AM, the dogs are loudly snoring at my feet.
My wife lies peaceful dreaming in a nearby silent room.
But——but, I am glued, held fast by unseen forces to this seat,
While words, lyrics, verses paint pictures in my head that loom,
Larger than life itself, and I could never hope to contain.
I try to focus, to keep the moments clear and maintain
In rational form to understand, but the position, I cannot sustain.
As they dance, dip and sway, for they simply carry me away.
In a sudden rush, in a momentary hush
Where the sounds that I hear become so rich and lush
And, I know I cannot force them here to stay.
I have no right to try to retain
but let them freely pass, to go.
To let the music simply flow.
It’s one AM, the sky is black outside.
The stars are there but doing their very best to hide,
As worlds of words swirl about my head,
rich images of distant places my thoughts are fed
I hear the music of distant lands and find my thoughts are gently spread,
In rapture, between heaven and hell, and beyond the gates of each
And I wonder what the muse is trying me to teach.
I know in my heart, I cannot hold the dreams in place
Only memories of the music can I ever hope on paper to trace.
I must let them freely pass, to freely go.
I must learn to let the music flow.
CROSSING
Posted in Fantasy, Love, Poems, Poetry, The Moon, The Sun, Winter, Writers, Writing, tagged Poems, poetry on April 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
CROSSING
April 2, 2011
Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn
T’was a soft and loving summer’s night
that stood close and kissed a winter’s dawn
the warmth of long days had slowly cooled
and fall’s chill had painted pooled
a gift of basketless leaves and flowers strewn
to wither and then to dust to turn
beneath a bright and glowing autumn moon
as lengthening shadows upon the field began to loom
and creatures large and small
furred and feathered, short and tall
began to venture forth to creep into the room
while aged the world before me ran
yet t’was young and still spry as the new born fawn
that I spied one early sleepy morn
as it strutted and danced across my lawn
in love with life it jumped and pranced
while I crept as close as I could have chanced
then while embers from a fire close by
cracked and popped and began to lose their heat and die
I stood quiet as the soft tan creature passed
while in silence each found the other’s eye
and with gentleness we both touched the other’s face
and across its muzzle my fingers traced
while its warm short breaths my throat and face embraced
THE VIOLIN # 2
Posted in Emotions, Love, Writers, Writing, tagged Emotions, Love, poetry, poets on March 19, 2011| 1 Comment »
THE VIOLIN
3/18/11
Copyright 2011 Gordon L Kuhn
Once,
years ago
I felt,
I touched
a violin!
Just the once.
It was gently placed
within my hands,
and I was shown
a single note,
and how to play
just the one note.
Once,
years ago,
and as I touched the bow
to the strings
which lay silent waiting
waiting for the barely felt touch,
and
as it sang out
as the bow crossed lightly
over the tightly stretched
and silent waiting strings
I was seduced!
My soul was lifted free
to dance alone in the sky
swept away by the single note
above where no one could see
and as the one note pierced the evening air
it touched me so soft and so gentle fair
as would a lover’s fingertips follow curves
and brought joy beyond belief
the first love
the first kiss
Once, just the once
I found myself to have been seduced
So gently taken
So softly led
to a waiting bed of music laid
so many years ago.
LUCKY SOME
Posted in Depression, Emotions, Fantasy, Suicide, Writers, Writing, tagged Depression, Emotions, Fantasy, Fear, Poems, poetry, Writers, Writing on February 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
LUCKY SOME
12/19/11
Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn
The lights go slowly out
as neighbors turn to rest
if rest could truly come
it matters not who might be suited best
for in shadows to succumb
but only for a lucky some.
But not for me.
for I am not free
not truly free
JANET
Posted in Love, Poems, Poetry, Valentine's Day, Writing, tagged Love, Poems, poetry, poets on February 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
JAN
MY WIFE, ME LOVE, MY BEST FRIEND
2/13/11
Copy Write 2011 Gordon Kuhn
T’was dark the morning of our meeting
as dark as many prior as I crawled from out my bed
dark as my heart was without awareness seeking
seeking a love so profound and gentle made
then your presence came
within the day
and my heart was stayed
stayed from its singular lonely search
for t’was luck for me that day when first we met
and I felt my heart bound forward
against well practiced fearful restraint
but you gently took my hand in yours
and I saw the world in brighter light
brighter than I had ever been blessed to see
and blossoms opened where dry stalks stood before
in parched and lifeless earth waiting
waiting to be blessed by a shower’s light kiss
a kiss which, in blessing, came that day,
and soft and gentle laid
and brought life to the waiting, stagnant clay
and all about the plants spoke of thee
and opened their blossoms to me in flower
a message from the Gods that you,
on that astounding day, had unlikely chosen me
and the sun shone and shadow clouds melted from the sky
for I knew this love would not be fleeting
it would last until the day I would die
and no more would I be alone and seeking
for a gentle hand to place within my own
and so I wrote this simple poem
a simple poem to say my heart will never more roam
and dedicate it and my life to you
and thus, in humbleness, lay the words before you on the thrown
I placed you on that day so wondrous spent,
as I stood in awe of my incredibly lovely one.
Butterfly: I don’t even know your name.
Posted in Depression, Emotions, Poems, Poetry, Suicide, Writers, Writing, tagged Depression, Emotions, Fear, Poems, poetry, Suicide, Writers, Writing on February 8, 2011| 4 Comments »
BUTTERFLY
I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME
2/8/11
Copy Write 2011 Gordon Kuhn
Who are you?
Where are you?
I spent the better part of the day fighting for your life
do you understand that?
Yet I don’t know you
I and others dealt with the strife
you dropped in our lives this day
and we worked to help you in life to stay
and yet we know not who or where you are
tell me,
butterfly,
are you close or are you far?
Have your wings found the burning match?
You tumbled out and left the door to your soul standing wide
your fragile wings took to the air
and left us to stare at the empty spot
where you left an opening to read your thoughts
of which in ache you confide
the transformation cocoon you left behind
and your poetry screams out in pain
and now in anger I stand and yell at you.
Damn you!
Damn you
gentle butterfly.
Christ, pills scattered across the table top.
A woman drowning reaching for the surface.
Your video of your daughters left behind
in memory of some happy time.
And mentions abuse and being left and leaving.
It all leaps across the electronic page
stumbles drunkenly across the stage
rushes headlong towards and ending I know not when and
of life and touches deeply hearts you don’t even know.
Do you not even care about the damage you’ve left in your wake?
But the final deed of selfish intent upon us you now bestow
you say
good by
and
good night
as though going out for a walk
and leave us here now with our fright for thee
as the shadows lengthen and the trace of you is growing thin
as we unite and fight and pray for you
but we don’t know your name
butterfly.
Is this to be the last bit of fame?
Is this the end of your flickering flame?
Is this where ends your last song of another’s shame
that left you battered, bruised, too weak to give out your name?
Am I to be your helpless pall bearer?
Am I and the others simple pawns in the fight against death?
Yes, and my anger grows hot at this error
you’ve placed so many of us in bewildered terror
you wish to somehow drop without any shame
yet you stand and cry out in pain
and sweep us up along with you
and I don’t——damn you——damn us
I don’t even know your name.
Is our fight, our battle is it in vain?
Can nothing stop your onward rush
to meet death with out a blush
without a hush
without a——
Oh God,
oh, butterfly
I don’t even know your name.
Tattoed Wishes
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged Poems, Writing on February 5, 2011| 1 Comment »
Tattooed Wishes
2/4/2011
Copy Write 2011 by Gordon Kuhn
INTRO NOTE:
You will understand this event
I’m sure.
While driving around looking for a parking spot,
bushes blocking the view,
slowed to make sure the way was clear
another car slid into view
and
stopped.
And so I held my spot
‘till he then slid on past
but the shock of being startled spread across and on my face
led him to believe he could rooster walk
across my bow while I waited to drive into a space
that he now walked past and blocked
and all the while I wanted to kill the son-of-of-bitch
and the feeling went from bad to worse
when another driver took the spot I’d waited for
while he continued to give the look of threat
and I just wanted to smash his fucking face.
Me, angry?
Oh no, not me.
TATTOO WISHES:
So, our cars almost collided.
You dumb bastard driving there
beneath stars and a growing dark
there, while for safety slowing,
we in the busy parking lot.
You were going West
and I was going South.
I was aimed at a parking space
and you were searching too.
We had plenty of choices
so the problem was the view
that blocked us from seeing the other
which was the mother of the trouble
and the beginning of the problem stew.
as our noses both were spotted
by the other when the allotted
space between we two grew smaller
and in irritation you then took the lead
to pass before and park your stinking car
while I sat in escalating await
and in troubled contemplation
and wondered what next to do.
Then, oh then, you hopped out from your car
and stared at me with such a haughty daring look
which was book to that which challenge said
and God I wanted to smash your fucking head
‘til you be found listless and nearly dead
but for the wife, yes, the wife saved your life
you impudent son-of-a bitch
who walked with such a swagger
across in front of me
and dagger eyes placed them upon me
as if to say, “come on, you ain’t so tough”
ah, Christ, the promised land I dearly wished I could have led
you to and dropped you off in front of Jesus
whom I sure would have understood I just had to
answer that haughty swagger look
and close both your eyes
with fisted tattooed black and blue
but for the wife, my wife, I would have had my due with you
and fist tattooed a nice black and blue.