What's New? (more recent poems)
Spring Haiku
Sun lovers rejoice
Green pushes through warm damp earth
Colors are reborn
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Backward Glance
Leaves and blossoms come
This is the time we hearken
Back as long lost friends
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Flood Season
Reminisce, Darling-
Can you feel me feeling you
Like a breath of Spring?
Bless You
A slip of the tongue
Behind your ear - whisper kiss
Picture this - haiku
~ARCantu, Spring, 2004
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What is the (boiling) Point?
Wild legacy
Absorbed via flesh
And spirit
By source proclaimed
Gone careless thrill
Miracles of time unpressured
Rather we pressure ourselves
~ARCantu, 07/03/04
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Wave
You could have come
Singing ancient verses
Hundreds of years ago
You should have been a
Medicine man downfall
And saving grace all in one
Magnificent package
Unfurled like a toadstool
Buff marvel sleek with dew
Of a magical morning
Born of the full moon's labor
Kokopelli lover
Ripe with wanderlust
Growing tall with no roots
As the whitetail disappears
Untraceable in sheltered glade
A heart would you snare easy
And hold it fast without concern
For future generations
Yours is a wink and a grin
Flash of white
A smile running
Proud and sure
Wave your flag as you come.
~ARCantu, 07/03/04
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Dallas in July
Heavy air
Damp with false hope
Tears the sky won’t cry
Hot
and wet
Slippery skin
No relief from
Above or below
Nothing to know
Here, Monday
Again you’re lost
To the gray coast
Sweltering pavement
Swallows me into
The craw that breaks down my week
Worlds converge
Elsewhere
Not here.
~ARCantu, 07/19/04
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Nubere
I welcome this
Moment anticipated
Ready
To commit
To give all
Bigger than anything
Ever
This love
Empowers
Emboldens
Enlarges
Size matters
Within awed walls
Of relationship
We stand united
We cannot fall
When we tell Power
Sustain us.
No sarcasm
No skepticism
No doubt no fear
This is why I am
Open the floodgate
I'm ready
~ARCantu, 07/18/04
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Kum ba ya ya
The Holy Spirit donned Her sunbonnet
And set out to visit the sick,
The unruly and overindulgent
Who had misplaced mercy, grace,
And the lost art of generosity.
When joie d’vive impairs the senses,
Souring the milk of human kindness,
God might go on holiday,
Since no one listens anyway.
Heresy is blaming
Not ourselves, but Divinity.
Why would He let innocent children
Die of starvation,
Or let oppressors obliterate nations?
God’s question is
Why would we?
~ARCantu, 07/03/04
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Period
An interval of prosperity,
Culture defined for posterity,
ideology's, technology's artifacts,
distinctly evolutionary, developmental-
Picasso's blue period
gave way to the rose period.
Geology is just shy of an era,
arbitrary academic divisions,
sports and games
play at physics and astronomy.
Intervals between orbits,
two points ended,
a conclusion
comes at the pause
at the end of a sentence.
Declarations after
many abbreviations,
carefully balanced clauses,
formal metric quantitative verse-
c-o-l-a, cola, for L-o-l-a, Lola.
Uni-classical analogous Greek,
grouped phrases,
composition,
terminating in cadence.
At least the interval
ranges within
the independent variable
of a periodic function.
All values of the dependent are assumed.
~ARCantu, 07/25/04
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Red Sky at Night
(a terzanelle)
Borne upon a southern tradewind's kiss
An inkling blossomed softly but not hushed
That let love breathe her life between your lips
Electricity tipped with favor lightly brushed
Upon your quickened flesh, heated chill
An inkling blossomed softly but not hushed
Awake to the need to yield to sun-fed will
Ripe promise flourished in your soul
Upon your quickened flesh, heated chill
Balmy rush forced the bell to toll
The hour chimed banishing reprieve
Ripe promise flourished in your soul
Whispers urged you into deep belief
Cleansed of doubt, buoyed up by truth
The hour chimed banishing reprieve
Hotter than any summer of your youth
Borne upon a southern tradewind's kiss
Cleansed of doubt, buoyed up by truth
That let love breathe her life between your lips
~ARCantu, 07/11/04
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more later...hopefully...before next year...
