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Category Archives: Poetry
The Looking Glass
It was how we decided to see ourselves, tailored to a fit of original distortion, which, over time, would be clarified to a point of unimaginable error and distraction. (First ever TV image, 1926)
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged drawn and quartered, image conscious, John Biscello, poem, screen time, TV Land
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Rending on High
The angel is not nice, nor sweet as pie in the sky or Disneyified to package the ecstasy as something more benignly palatable, no, the angel is radically explicit, unfiltered, and true to its cause, exacting the swiftest deepest means … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged angel, bernini, bliss, italy, John Biscello, poem, rapture, saint teresa, sculpture, spearheading
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The Calling
To live by a code, riveted to Fate’s decree– sword dipped in moonlight.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged female samurai, haiku, japan, John Biscello, when destiny calls
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Ryokan Was Here
Is it lonely, hmmm? Single tree fondled by the moist fingers of mist.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged all this mist, haiku, John Biscello, poem, Ryokan, this lonely life, wandering, zen
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The Source
Their hearts, registered as infinite beacons, have gone gently and luminously into nights not so good and pitch-black, braving flytrap folds and god-awful rows to soothe, mend and restore the bruised vitals of daughters and sons; they go, infused with … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged creation, John Biscello, love is real, mercy and compassion, mother spirit, mother's day, motherlove, poem, tribute
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Ray Bradbury Presents…
Time and again inventing wings on the way down and in Ray lived according to Imagination’s standard and grinned while risking it all on the first and last word.
Nine Lives Minus One
For its last supper the cat asked for a cupcake– Christ, look at that flame! (Artwork by Conrad Cooper)
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged any last words?, Artwork, conrad cooper, hai kookoo, haiku, John Biscello, surreal, the last supper
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Paradise Found
Decisive moment, revised throughout melting years– Love can be stunning.
Radiance Do Dance
Sometimes it is a breakaway of color, a kaleidoscopic spray and rupture that does the trick in convincing the light to warm your veins and stay a little while longer. (Artwork by Jackson Pollock)
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Abstract Expressionism, grafitti consciousness, Jackson Pollock, John Biscello, poem, spraylighting
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Look Closer
Her shadowcalled lips bear the stitches of past love– Kiss at your own risk.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged close-up, haiku, John Biscello, lip reading, post-romance, stigmata
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