Month: September 2014

On The Way To The Statue Of Liberty

kikirosner

I saw you the other day

mixed in a crowd of even skin

varied in pigment only

you Stood out

with skin like Applied parchment

a being of a different making,

a Visitor

those spiky bunions tell me

your hands tried so hard

to save you from the Inferno

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You disappeared however

in the crowd with your even skinned

children, who accustomed to looking

at the tenderness of your soul

moving behind leather

see love in the inflexibility of your face,

no longer the pain

your Flesh so vividly remembers,

lets none of us forget

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My vision branded

I do not recall the tall woman with the torch

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Mixed Mdia by Yaron Rosner

Mixed Media by Yaron Rosner

The Gathering

kikirosner

Low enough to Gild the day’s light

and allow for the night to harden

our Sun has given the Signal;

for some it’s their first time

for others it is habit

Recommendations to the newcomers

reminders for the initiated

encouragement to the Seniors

everyone speaks at the same time

generating the clattering cacophony

of the Gathering

Such a sudden cloud you Rise together

settle on another wire continue your babble

Readying yourselves

for the oncoming journey South

until the Deep of the night Ices over

and only the Blue Jay call resounds,

you are Gone.

Photograph by Erwin Wybauw

Photograph by Erwin Wybauw

Bodies From The Sun – Part II

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To The Cirque Du Soleil

 

Your Body the Sun has kissed longest,

though finely tuned

the Bone has begun to Bend

the flesh around the still

precise muscle, has Thinned

shows its wear, Reveals

not only the Years of Prowess

but also the pain in achieving its Might

More human, more vulnerable,

certainly more beautiful

you have descended from those Heights,

Grounded by your gathered years and wisdom

you make us Laugh

 

that we could reach out

touch the Weathering of your tone

know the Stories in your Skin

Lillian Leitzel Aeralist 1882-1931

Lillian Leitzel Aeralist
1882-1931

Bodies From The Sun – Part I

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To The Cirque Du Soleil

 

Part Bird part Human

Lean, lithe, strong, you swing

making of your legs

trailing feathers,

which follow the graceful

flow of your body’s circumlocutions

Breathless we watch you spin

then stop, Airborne,

held in space by our Stare,

Slowly your body bends into a ball

shot as if from a canon, you spread

holding by one hand only

thirty feet above ground, hands clap,

you are upside down, Suspended

by one foot spinning endlessly

until you spring once more Upright

and gasping for Breath, we Roar.

 

Your body no more the clumsy Flesh

cumbersome and limiting

rather an Instrument

exquisitely tuned

fulfilling its Purpose

 

Part II Next Week

 

Lillian Leitzel Aeralist 1882-1931

Lillian Leitzel Aeralist
1882-1931