[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "LIT-IDEAS" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:41:20 +0100
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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