The Millenial Flame, Part III |
The Ocean's geography
is a curve and a line
a crest, a surge
and it happens unnoticed
unrecorded beyond contexts
and so lives mankind
beyond his own petty
histories and conventions
II
She disliked
...
Posted by lelyn on Fri, 11 May 2007 11:29:00 PST |
The Millenial Flame, Part II |
Any Gesture However Grand Love can be so powerful It becomes impotent And any gesture however grand Could never express it And that is where The universe is with us And no matter how it grieves you Yo...
Posted by lelyn on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:58:00 PST |
The Millennial Flame Part I |
I When you're haunted by the dead Write a poem write a poem When you're living another horror Write a poem write a poem When you've tried a million times When you walk that tired mile When you can't b...
Posted by lelyn on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:06:00 PST |
biography (I'm not human). |
I was born in Memphis TN. on September 11, 1978 the same year Elvis died. I was a donor insemination. My mother had just gotten out of the Navy, and we moved to San Diego with her 3rd husb...
Posted by lelyn on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:04:00 PST |
Thou Shalt Not Kill |
In one of his angriest poems Thou Shalt Not Kill Rexroth talks of the toll that the collapse of the revolutionary wave had on so many writers, artists and intellectuals.
Thou Shalt Not Kill
I
They are...
Posted by lelyn on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:00:00 PST |
Poems Against Poetry |
I
The first poem comes first
because it should
because someone who reads
that poem
might not want the rest
and so
that first poem
will have to do
will have to speak for the others
and there really are...
Posted by lelyn on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:43:00 PST |
On Love, The Eternal Return, and Jeff Buckley's Last Show |
1.
I realized one day that the Universe had too much love for miracles. As if even reaching over to kiss us could never be enough to express all that love. It's why people don't kill each ...
Posted by lelyn on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:38:00 PST |
Logical Positivism, this is a warning! |
(with thanks to epona for inspiration)
It..'s a sort of global sadness, right, how we only get along when we..'re making money off of each other. Separation of church and state. The deep meaning of ou...
Posted by lelyn on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:36:00 PST |
Dreams Again |
A few months ago I dreamt that I was touring a grand cathedral with Alex. We were each given a little tin of chocolates. There were various stations where we had to give cho...
Posted by lelyn on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:16:00 PST |
Ocean Thoughts |
The Ocean is moving. In fact, it's hauling ass.
If George Bush found out his wife Laura was pregnant by a black man, he would have it aborted. But George Bush is not the problem, we a...
Posted by lelyn on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:42:00 PST |
