LOVE ...

IN AUTUMN BLAZE


Mandarins and Courtiers
The trees came
Dazzling
In their bespoke gowns
Spilled
Summer’s hoarded sunsets
On our hungry palms.






ms 2006

AUTUMN POEMS



AND LET ME TELL YOU MORE
Eugene Dubnov (Translated from the Russian)


And let me tell you more: the earth
in the painful beauty of falling leaves,
just as it is, I accept, with you,
and without you, need no other.

The sky deploys the clouds,
far away from us, over the horizon,
as though with a rheostat, dimming
the sunset across the zones of longitude.

So it must be: the shiver of foliage, wind,
the heart's disturbance and the spirit's,
the play of shadows in the light,
quickening sight and inward hearing -

autumn has spread out before us
all its painted merchandise
and in the sunset hour has agitated
the music of the earth's favourite story.



(from Outposts Quarterly. 180/181)

Holding Hands


Into the arena the children came
kicking heart-beats over the roof
And in our silent chests
a field of wild-flowers grew.

Under moon balloons, acrobats
the children gawped like hungry chicks
An angel trailed her gossamer robe
onto finger tips.

And our leaden heads
turned somersault.

And in ragged formation they held
each other’s grins
with each other’s eyes
glanced whispers to where we sat:

why are you not holding hands?
why are you dressed in black?


ms 2006


Just returned from the Special Olympics in Rome (European Youth Games). As always, amazing and mind changing. (http://www.athleteconnect.org/ / http://www.specialolympics.org/Special+Olympics+Public+Website/English/Compete/Regional_Games/European+Youth+Games.htm)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y9k-U67FNg&eurl