Monday, August 01, 2005

Good Poem Today by Ernest Priego

(. . . and, it's got birds enit)
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::..MAYBE..::



Maybe
the heart
is a bird

trapped
between ribs
like jail bars

Maybe
your trace
is the space

you
left precisely
on the left

side,
count them
with your fingers:

Maybe
your memory
lives there, between

one,
two, three,
the fifth and

the
sixth, trapped,
like a bird,

trembling,
without flying,
small and alive.



---
Ernesto Monday, August 01, 2005
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Some
truths are
simple; some, not.

Read more in the Hay(na)ku form at Café Café including my stab at the form, inspired by Ernesto, called "Another Summer Day".

And get Ernesto's new hay(na)ku chapbook.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(added note, 8/3/05, to Ernesto: No, hombre, did you have to use 2 "very"s in the phrase "at a very, very young age")(?)(!) ;-)
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"trembling,
without flying,
small and alive."

Love
it. It's
true and truing.

Poetry.
Good Poetry:
the unexpected inevitable.

3 Comments:

Blogger Ernesto said...

Oh, my! I'm honored! Thank you very much! My chapbook is free for whoever wants it, just drop me a line to ernestopriegor AT yahoo DOT com requesting one and your street address. Only a few left, since it was a limited numbered & signed edition (hand-stapled, hand-cut) of merely a hundred.

¡Gracias!

2/8/05 13:27  
Blogger Ernesto said...

Ay, perdón. It's not so long ago! I am so young anyways! ;)

I was trying to show respect... gracias otra vez y perdón!

3/8/05 06:30  
Blogger Lorna Dee Cervantes said...

yes
there should have been at least
4 or 5 "very"s in that
we all know you were
a precocious child

;-)

6/8/05 04:23  

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