I lost my way, I forgot ...
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:44 pm
- from "Book of Mercy"
.. that is a lovely Leonard poem.. or passage, Carm.
We get silly here sometimes, and it's nice to get grounded again, keeping sight of the person we're all here to in some way pay tribute to..
.. years ago, now, his songs, his lyrics, in a sense freed me up to express a deeper part of myself more fully..
Here's a poem I wrote in 2003, with war, again, at hand..
keep
to a mental
ordering. miniscule;
expansive
what will be remembered
without such thoughts
transcribed
without a child
what will be remembered
of the dead
of whom we hear nothing
of the slaughtered, entire families,
cultures
what will be remembered
for what’s left of their young
what will be saved
dreamt of.
words without context
words unspeakable
words without end
keep us now
v i o l e t
