MJS
MJ's poetry is supple and sweet, simple yet multi-layered in meaning. Notice the careful attention to each word and its placement, streamlining each thought- yet allowing freedom of significance-interpretation-symbolism, almost Buddhist in its elegant nature. Brilliant. He is the first poet I've had the honour to host, but hopefully not the last. I hope you all enjoy his work as much as I do.

short dwelling on monotonous diatribal dialogue

boredom cracks
stiff fingers
that creep along
tedious tempo
typing kilobytes
of self disgust

like some critical
creature yearning
to never enjoy
the spontaneous
discovery of life
in this most
waning of moments

sound inside a jawbone

a word hovers
as chained
to the horizon
of thought…

listening to the snow.

 a jester of hope arrived and with no conclusion

DRAWN CONCLUDES
A WALL OF COLD REASON
LEAVING
NO WARM ROOM
OR EXPANDING
TIME
FOR PAINTING
OR POETRY
UNDRAWN
FOR A DEEP
AND TREACHEROUS
VALLEY

ESCAPED INTO
THE WHOLE OF LIFE

searching for a lost treasure on the silent freeway

the road is warm
where the sidewalks
roam
past the outstretched
windows
of open mind

wavering
in the evaporous pores
of logic
and the ever sifting
grain of sand

not like this
cold world
of stone

we walked a hungry moon

OPEN TIME
MOVING
AHEAD
OF MIND
YET STILL
BEHIND

DARK
PROFOUNDLY
LIGHT

FEET STEPPING
GRACEFULLY
ABOVE
THE SHADOWS

topsy turvy land

THE SLEEPING
RUB THEIR EYES

AND SLIDE
BACK
THE SHUTTERS

WHILE THE SWEEPING
SKY

SPINS
N STIRS

perpendicular horizons

there are
no answers
here

only minds
in
transition

corner medicine

soft cloud
cushions
breathing
positive ions

outside
the forest is
blooming
a new
color

for every molecule
is changing

as the sky
is turning in
patterns
pomes, tones
and pictures
not
taken.

consciousness flips n smoke curls

mundane minds
mend mediocrity
as loosely traveled
word wielders
wait mindlessly
on trains
without time

to turn and dance
in circles
and rhyme

rocks on four plates

these rocks
ate plants
and
patterned
illogical
landscapes
in perfect
puzzles

like glass bones
in grazed fields
of stone.

life in vain (live today)

what is it worth
to love
and feel pain

to write these words
on a wall
in backwards alleys
and
seats on trains

what is it worth
to be loved
amd fade away

into the night
of dreams
restless and
astray

is it worth
the love i gave
to bury my hopes
in a resting grave?
 

wild river running forever between rushing against rocks makes a roaring sound

'what do
you want
from me?'

asked the
river to the
tree up top.

'i can't stop
like you aloof
in your silent
grandeur
stepping upon
mountains'

the tree said
nothing

the bare wind
whispering
thru it's leaves.

 every house has a hose

only the hose
knows
where it goes
as the water
flows
from
the holes
in the hose

sea of mirrors

a sea
of mirrors
reflect the
years
in time
we are
still
above
our fears

adrift
in this
sea of
mirrors

pinecones and telephones

this trail leads
nowhere thru
houses and trees
and round rock beds
that ebb
in the quarrelsome
spotlight

but just outside
the night
as distance
beside the bending
pines

elephants lean
on imaginary
lamp posts
and cows
that don't come down
go up
escalators
to the moon,

settling dust
on the floor
inside the door
going everywhere
back home.

new sail

let me tell
you a tale
a tale that
is true

that there
is no tail
but that
inside of you

let me sell
you a sale
a sail that
is new

where there
is no sale
and the
ocean is
new.

the leggo of freedom

is a boat
a train
a spaceship
or
a plane

and

the same
float
is leading
the parade

homeward

on
a grain
of
sand

wondering
where
wandering
there.

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