David Michael Jackson

To Ernest Sylvia and Vincent

 

You make me write this poem,

you with art in your hands.

Was it because no one cared Vincent?

Was it because they cared Ernest?

Was it your stated goal Sylvia?

Was it the pain of life,

or the meaningless shuffle to chaos,

the eons that can overcome your work?

 

Ah it was that fish

that fish that turned to bones.

 

Your greatest

is no greater than the single flower

blooming and fading.

 

I must kick your bones.

My worth is  tiny beside your greatness

as your greatness is tiny beside the eons.

I must kick your bones.

 

Life will kill you soon enough.

 

When I see the momentary flower

I am carried by it

to bliss.

 

When I see your flower

I cry.

 

david michael jackson     June 1, 2012   editors@artvilla.com

 

 

 

She

When she whispers
like the sounds a skirt makes,
the sounds the leaves make,
the sounds the wind makes
early, when the birds sing like
the peaceful sound of the brook
when she speaks
like the rain itself
on the roof,
it’s the sound the sunshine makes
in the yard,
the sound the moonlight makes,
the sound of a kind thought,
the sounds the clouds make,
and the sounds the sun makes
setting and rising

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david michael jackson   Nov 29 2004  editors@artvilla.com