this woman pours out hunger
like monsoon rains
come down to drown both wind and world
in melancholy memories
before
the dreams went dry
before
fade to funk
stripped the withered rhythms from her trunk
her blue/black/smile
still draws you down
below firm breasts
to pleasured space - wet from wandering warm-scented words
wrapped brother-tight
in uptown Harlem's
absolution renaissance - tonight
where blue notes float
above white curls of smoke
in rising syncopation
with the rifts and the rhythms on the moon
soulful summer cool
where blues slip through
soft-silky lips
of ebony woman
with high-yellow light
and blues to make
it better than forever
through the night
Nicely done, Tom.
These lines from another, much longer work of yours, still sit in a corner of my consciousness:
and then I realize
that a thought is best defined
by the loss of the thought left behind
There was too much for my feeble mind to digest all at once, but going back and re-reading Easy Everett's work gives me a great deal of entertainment now that I've had time to ponder each poem on its own merits.
Les
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I remember this poem and can only wonder why nobody commented on it when first posted. From the words of another song...."I guess that's why they call it the blues". In looking back now at Tom's villanelle, I see that it too was posted last year, but went without response. You are resurrecting a treasure trove, Les. Will you be bumping the one you've quoted here? Please do.
and Tom....please forgive our daftness in not responding to these poems on their first go around.
Mary
Tom has some great stuff here. I hope to get through most of it within the next few weeks. I don't want to inundate the board with just his work, but I will bump a few poems to share with you and whoever else might be interested. Here's a link to the poem from which those lines came: [www.emule.com] />
Les
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....and he was only 17 or 18 when he wrote that? He was way beyond his years. Either that or it was some powerful stuff they were smokin' back in the early 60's.
Thanks, Les, for all the work you do on this site. Glad you had the surgery and things are literally looking better for you these days. Take care, though.
Mary