Category Archives: Poetry and Art

Tributary

Posted on September 10, 2012 by ubu507

The wrinkles Across your shirt Tributaries To your body

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Carla

Posted on September 8, 2012 by ubu507

In the corner, the black spider She spins her drama and sleeps The sleep of a mane of hair. And the room eats her dreams. — Jean-Pierre Duprey

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Station 2

Posted on July 20, 2012 by ubu507

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, How to make poems. You dance Inside my chest Where No one sees you. But sometimes I do And that sight Becomes this art. — Rumi (translated by Coleman … Continue reading →

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Megan 2

Posted on July 18, 2012 by ubu507

You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let me fly. — Rumi translated by Coleman Barks

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Quodlibet 11

Posted on July 17, 2012 by ubu507

O lovers, lovers, the time of union and encounter has come. The proclamation from heaven has come: Moon-faced beauties, welcome hither! — Rumi translated from the Persian by A. J. Arberry

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Bowl

Posted on June 13, 2012 by ubu507

Know that the world is like Mount Sinai, and we like Moses are seekers; every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder.  — RUMI

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While Pensive I thought on my Love

Posted on June 9, 2012 by ubu507

illustration to an unidentified publication. Block cut by George Dalziel After Frederick Richard Pickersgill 1835-1861 The British Museum WHILE pensive I thought on my love, The moon on the mountains was bright, And Philomel down in the grove, Broke sweetly … Continue reading →

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The Stream Beyond

Posted on June 5, 2012 by ubu507

Somewhere we exist Past this wall To the stream beyond In the icy shadows A distant movement We exist

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Her?

Posted on May 22, 2012 by ubu507

She is not event free I’ve been on the elevator With her and I’m sure Her convex maturity Her crepuscular allure Reflecting American materialism For her own glory Attractive at least notionally The Lady of a Hundred Hands In a … Continue reading →

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Dubious and Extravagant

Posted on May 9, 2012 by ubu507

Manifestations of a terminal cultural sickness Elitism idealism scorn for conventional values And the desire for something different The cultivation of recondite worlds Bizarre areas packed with formidable enigmas Where dubious and extravagant fantasies are enacted An alien landscape for … Continue reading →

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