today, ruff by pd lyons

not deaf

but rather

does not listen.

not choice

but rather

submitting.

not ignorance

but rather grateful

for distraction.

freed from the sound then

everything crying.

In this hard Rocky Earth/ #pd lyons #poetry #stonework #wildroses #fore #westmeath #ireland

In this hard rocky earth

what have our bones become

what nourished creatures by our flesh alive

as if we really immortal

thought our marked stones  be cared for

remembered only by the wind

Fore,County Westmeath

Bridget Shields Rose

from 2006 notes found in a box today. thanks for stopping by.

In this hard Rocky Earth/ #pd lyons #poetry #stonework #wildroses #fore #westmeath #ireland

 

In this hard rocky earth

what have our bones become

what nourished creatures by our flesh alive

as if we really immortal

thought our marked stones  be cared for

remembered only by the wind

Fore,County Westmeath

Bridget Shields Rose

from 2006 notes found in a box today. thanks for stopping by.

ruff : The Desire for Magical

 

 

 

to go beyond belief

into certainty

to not settle

but relentlessly push

beyond imagined comforts

 

spending youth as if there was no end

because there wasn’t

 

street corners

cigarettes

never minding the rain

preferring snow to sunlight

wrapped up in that old army field 

comforted by the heat of my own body

needing nothing

wanting everything

 

 – a series of corners to go around

1998

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yes!

slips #2 by pd lyons w/photos by the poet

 Being tired of argument

Being tired of Fussing

Being tired of Telling

Being tired of Running

Being tired o f answering

Being  tired of this weight of Things that don’t exist

Commit myself to the pursuit of the truth which does

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