[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM

Nice. Very. But you owe us two Sundays' poems.

Sternly

-- Judy  mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx




Sunday, June 27, 2004, 6:56:02 PM, Mike Geary wrote:

MG> THE TAO OF DAD


MG> See him?  There on that hill.  Yes,
MG> the one just standing there, 
MG> looking for all the world 
MG> like a wind-shaped tree, 
MG> a survivor,
MG> while all around him, 
MG> dust devils, ghost marauders, raid the fields.




MG> THE TAO OF DOING

MG> Listen.  Is that the sound of stone bending water
MG> or of stone-bending water?


MG> THE TAO OF DOG

MG> A trail of dry paw-prints in dew-darkened dust.
MG> Even that, sun erased, left no trace.



MG> THE TAO OF DEATH

MG> Now he, too, has turned to dust, 
MG> returned to lusting Earth,
MG> both he and the woman who gave me birth
MG> returned 
MG> but I kept their mirth. 
MG> What use is it to stupid Earth?


MG>           --- Mike Geary


MG> Mike Geary
MG> Memphis


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