Poems
Original Poetry by Warren GastonLife Dance
It’s all about the beat, the rhythm and the throb. the heart drum’s pounding a life-long percussive song. Don’t let your mind distract your body from the beat. You are the throb, the beat, the pulse. You are made of music, rhythms, heart - lung, night - day, sun -...
Lunar Landing
I look up at Apollo’s moon with droll psychology. How can a moon that’s walked upon be free of lunacy? 1970 Commemorating the first humans to land and walk on the moon, July 20, 1969, 48 years ago.
City Scape Grid
So many straight lines, vertical, horizontal, streets, walls, wires, an infestation of right angles.. Relief! a sparrow flying crooked over roofs.
Poetry
"A poem is an emotional-intellectual-physical construct that is meant to touch the heart of the reader, that is meant to be re-experienced by the reader." Stephen Dobyns I love poetry because poems are polyvalent* & multidimensional: all at once - Spiritual &...
A letter to one upon waking:
Cool morning. Immense silence makes its case against the cacophony of the waking day. The squirrels are mounting an offense against sobriety and solemnity. They dart among trees, race and chase, flouncing their luxurious rodent tails through the undergrowth. The sun...
Exhaustion: The Mother of Invention
The first talker, exhausted from overactive verbs, desperate for inertia, invented nouns.
Divine Surprise
To a god who wants nothing in return, I would give my all. A deity demanding more, I would give less. Less being more, in this way I maintain the balance of power between us and give god the experience of surprise.
The Poetic Life
poiesis (poiesis - Gk. 'to make') The poetic life is not writing poems about life. It can include writing poems, but it is bigger than that. Allow me to be metaphorical. The world has been dropped. The poet picks up the fragments, holds the jagged edges to the light,...
Solar Morality
"Each second, the Sun fuses approximately 600 million tons of hydrogen to helium, converting about 4 million tons of matter to energy." Wikipedia: ˜sun"™ Faithfully the sun climbs up east out of black sky, doing the morally responsible thing. People are counting on...