Monthly Archives: October 2023

Fountain

Posted on October 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Water need not praise– its small gods reside in flow through the end of days.

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Slide

Posted on October 10, 2023 by John Biscello

Unless you are converted and become as little children sliding down a blue slide while the living and dead co-exist side by side as playmates in a prayer-kind spectrum of transient passage your heaven will remain a seriously twisted topic … Continue reading →

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Slippers

Posted on October 10, 2023 by John Biscello

In a well-kept shrine the dignity of slippers unmoved by great lengths.

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Mirror

Posted on October 9, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. At a distance, daughter falls in love with the sea’s lacy fringes and shoreline’s bubbling secrets, while her mother holds up the sky as an undivided mirror, in which every chanced glimmer is hosted and … Continue reading →

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Moments

Posted on October 9, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Boy, bedazzled by the sea’s opaline crush, Mother, in the sand-softened throes of respite, holding tenderest vigil, to recognize life’s sweetest ease in passing.

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Proof

Posted on October 9, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. On the day the sky cracked the superimposed pageant and illusory facade of the world without its set design and painted surface gave way to the verdict and inalienable proof of choral pools of black … Continue reading →

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Testament

Posted on October 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The sea’s fathomless span, its give and crush a remedial balm and testament to the touch of what grieves us. We surrender to longed-for renditions of us going away from ourselves to meet ourselves in … Continue reading →

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Harbor

Posted on October 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Dreams of a lighthouse– Solitude, undisturbed, lasting berth to air.

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To the Lighthouse

Posted on October 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Gulls glide in cursive above the grammarless sea– Red lighthouse, sentenced.

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Ferry

Posted on October 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Aboard the ferry, man dreams he is a sea gull– Above, clouds wonder.

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