Comment from 2017

Comment from 2017

"Shame on you.

You should be praying nonstop
like my Pops who's a priest
in Nigeria, working hard
for the salvation of human kind...
not spending your time on poetry.
Shame on you.
Jesus, gave mercy on his soul."

shame...sure, but not from poetry

my poems are non-stop prayers

connecting to God

connecting to you...my anonymous friend

connecting to your father priest

firing off even more mercy, blessings,

instant forgiveness, kindness

prayers

of salvation, love, peace, 

redemption in a new world

humanity singing a new song

...poetry is the work brother

blue note book poems

i)

little book tucked

back pocket deep

40 lost poems

ii)

two novices paddle past

moments from great learning

cats hate canoes

iii)

welcome to our campsite

bottle of Off, mosquito coils

covered in morning frost

iv)

early fall fire crackles

smoke through hemlock boughs

pinecones snap

v)

peanut butter smores melt

marshmallow erupts  - burns

drips over monk robes

vi)

grass is long - damp

flattened in a trail

to log pile edge

vii)

meal remnants sit

hardening kimchi fried rice

empty soju bottles clink

viii)

driveway basketball thunder

real thunder along the seaway

monk settles on porch

ix)

axe shatters...splatters

through rotten deck wood

monk cuts new board

x)

old Zellers work shirt

worn steel toe boots

flat pencil in baseball brim

xi)

fire wards off late spring snow

four finger single malt pour

wards off heavy day

two notebook poems

i)

country music played background low

faint gunshots echo from the forest edge

 - wild turkey season opening day - 

morning fire crackles, kettle whistles

tired monk ponders earl grey poems

ii)

loose under sink pipe

dirty dish water surge

quick tool box search 

finds a  spanner wrench

and a lost notebook

of summer poems

birds

wet open buggy swale

this spring the bats will feast

tonight hoot owls soar

snatching up mice, voles, rabbits

ducks float

hidden down deep in the ditch

eating a fallen burger bun

tom turkey -  tail aloft

gathering up his lovely hens

 - a coyote watches from the forest hill

bent necked songbird - dead

kicked along a cracked city sidewalk