Category: Poems

THE TIGER AND THE ROSE I listen as I sleep to tigers making love to roses beneath shining blue moons and I hear the mockingbirds’ song and I

    THE WORD AGAIN Tonight I don’t know how to write. Is this a new state of mind? Tonight the words have a headache as I am

  THE LOVE OF TWO TREES Two trees were madly in love. The vindictive woodcutter chopped them down and took them home. By chance, the two trees met

I WANT TO BE EVERYTHING IN LOVE I want to be everything in love the lover the beloved dizziness the breeze the reflecting water and that white cloud

    QUESTION Earth, are you still more than a spark of the primal light a mutilated boulder lost in the universe? The golden calf unwinged the angel

  THE TREE RISES IN THE WIND For Germain Droogenbroodt The tree is nothing without the wind, nor is it sure that it exists if the wind doesn’t

THE SNOW You came in silence how snow comes, and in the morning the heart was all white and didn’t know what to say. You covered me like

  SHADED The wall of the monastery roams along reluctantly around the corner your shadow Stone by stone as if it wants to clench the impression of my

  PEACE GAMES The children in the yard played war, they played their war loud and shrill. From the window I called them: For once, play peace! I

Or Was It Nine Perhaps we had only seven nights I don’t know I didn’t count them how would I have been able to Perhaps no more than