THE WAIT
I’ve known the takes of winter — the last leaves; The cold, brittle branches bare in the wind, Creaking above the grounded yesterdays. My bark sings to charm that residue within, Waiting to bloom old limbs once more to love; That next love affair that wakens us new, Bold past The Wait, to fly again […]
THE WAITERS
They’re out there…waiting! Some sense it more than some. But, no surprise with waiting done, As someday the news reports “I died.” Oh, head crowned with laurels spun, But no quarried stone on lonely sod With cuts for passers-by to ponder-on. Oh, the wait for “such-a-me” to be gone! Any Day! Any Day! — He […]
FINDING PARADISE IN PANDEMIA – In The Time of COVID-19
I. Where, now, the sun Paradise, we implore? All peoples-nations stung by a virus And forced to stay away from each other, Till it somehow subsides and is controlled, And we return to our not the same world. A hurt-lame world – but perhaps more humane. So many die and our promise in pain. From […]
O! MY! – ICYMI – HERE’S THE GIST OF SPRING 2020
Alas, as we approach April Fool’s Day – we must not be fools to our frailty. Our human-planetary frailty is writ IN GREAT CAPS TODAY! The gist without the mist is this: we are a planet in an ultimate darkness, we are humanoid creatures on this planet – with all its beauties and terrors: now, […]
O! WHY WRITE A LOVE POEM NOW?
O! WHY WRITE A LOVE POEM NOW, WHEN MY MIND’S SO QUARANTINED WITH THE PEOPLES AND NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN THIS BOUNDLESS PANDEMIC SPRINGTIME OF COVID-19 2020? WHAT IS THIS I’M WRITING MIDST THE DYING, MIDST THE GLOBAL INFECTION RISING RISING? … OOOOO O! WHY WRITE A LOVE POEM NOW? WHERE’S ARS POETICA’S MIRABILE […]
CURRENT HOLD NOTES ABOUT QUOTES FROM SCIENCE
The above, representative stack of books, is to remind any reader of MDOK that I am not a scholar of such and admittedly can’t muster the facility to comprehend all the math and science they represent. I’ve read them and felt THE HOLD in them, but I’ve decided at my age and time that I’m […]
DEATH’S A DAILY THINK
Death’s a daily think—getting demanding, too. News, world, and my i-phone’s so full of it. Lindsey, 25, of Dixie Crush is dead. Car ran her over: died 2/17/2020, A day before I turned 86 years. Paisley, 7, just died in her tonsillectomy. At 10, I lived through mine to eat ice cream. Randomness plays all […]
AN OUR TIMES OWN CELEBRANT TRINITY — BLUE DOT-VALENTINE-BUDDHA
The calendar is our calendar. We are guardians of our own time that the universe and billions of galaxies have no part or play within. Here’s the current date under consideration: February 14-15, which will seemingly be so as long as we are so. Briefly: (1) thirty years ago – 2/14- planet earth’s picture was […]
THE LOGO LOGOS LIFE SYMBOL OF CONCEPTS IN MY WRITINGS — 2/18/2020 — MDOK
The logo-logos-life symbol above is my creation. This brief article will describe it and how it came to be. There is more of that “how” in my books. I first used it to conclude AUGURIES and thus the trilogy. My explanation of it in that book is from the vocabulary used there to explain its […]
THE EMBRACE OF THE HOLD – A REALITY TO BEHOLD&BEHELD IN THE LONGING TO BELONG
The author of this hopes that if not some sparks of enlightenment for the reader (if ever I have any) – at least some grabs of entanglement with the effort exercised for THE EMBRACE. Alas, some etchings before exiting. Hail! Explorative exegesis!! Open your arms! This poem (from “Glistenings”) will preface and perhaps help you […]