Seeking world peace and personal peace through poetry
The hot summer sun
makes cake of my skin
and the sweat lets me know
I’m alive
the water
is better then
it is needed then
and noticed
Can a poem be the water on a hot day
can the water flow down
this page
in
this poem
this time or the next
until there is no next
no new
meanderings
of the water in a poem until it lies there in a pool on the page, on this page
First published on: Jun 25, 2012
Write me a poem he says.
That’s not good grammar son.
Has some literature professor checked you out?
Are you poetry certified?
ARE YOU QUALIFIED?
No Sir but the dew….
Oh shut up about the dew
nobody talks about the dew.
Yes sir but the sea…….
Oh shut up about the sea
Nobody cares about the sea.
But sir the peace
The peace is the dew
that can find its way to the sea.
david michael jackson April 15, 2012
I’m pushed into the side of a giant balloon.
I can see into the balloon.
There is a screen and some hands,
typing.
Behind me is reality,
but the balloon moves fast.
If I turn, the balloon turns.
I can run into
the other room.
It’s there,
inside the balloon.
I can see these hands typing.
They are my hands
pushing into the balloon.
There are others.
They are pressed into the side.
I can see the impression
of their faces, speaking.
If I hold my ear to the side of the balloon,
I can hear them.
They say to get real.
A poetry session with R.W. Haynes, who presented his book Heidegger Looks at the Moon, Mussarat Rahman, Maggie Hall, Robin Ouzman Hislop, Adil Latefi, Manuel Neto Dos Santos, Mike Baynham and Antonio Martínez Arboleda. Translations & originals from Portugese & Arabic, Adil Latefi, Manuel Neto Dos Santos, Mike Baynham, Video artwork Mussarat Rahman, Maggie Hall, Mike Baynham & Robin Ouzman Hislop. Poems Magie Hall & Antonio Martínez Arboleda English & Spanish. Review Heideger looks at the Moon, Robin Ouzman Hislop & his poems read by RW Haynes.
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times ; at Artvilla.com his publications include
All the Babble of the Souk , Cartoon Molecules and Next Arrivals, collected poems, & Moon selected Audio Textual Poems available at Amazon.com as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande´s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist and the recently published Tesserae , a translation of Carmen Crespo´s Teselas.
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)
God is an artist, you see
God is an artist, you see,
or rather you don’t see.
She draws people but He
cannot draw so well and
all of Her people
end up looking different and
He knows other Gods who can draw better and
their people all look alike and
She’s frustrated but He keeps trying
and She’s hoping
That He’ll get it right
someday.
Author’s note: this YouTube video is also in the public domain, subtitles can be accessed from the tab on the bottom bar below the video. Excerpt from Moon Audio Textual Selected Poems Published by Aquillrelle also available at Amazon
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times ; at Artvilla.com his publications include
All the Babble of the Souk , Cartoon Molecules and Next Arrivals, collected poems, & Moon selected Audio Textual Poems available at Amazon.com as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande´s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist and the recently published Tesserae , a translation of Carmen Crespo´s Teselas.
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)
