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Category Archives: Uncategorized
Romance
These short forevers, spanning the length of shadows– lasting first kisses.
The Messenger
To conceive of Death, as an uninvited guest– His gift, your life, lived.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bones to pick, death's door knocked up, haiku, John Biscello, poem, skeleton keys, we were the Addams family
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Knock Knock
I came to a door, where once it was only wall– Dreams turn up in time.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged dreamwalking through doorways, haiku, John Biscello, one door close another opens, poem
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Buddha’s Ninth Life
Fasting on patience, the cat became enlightened– No reason to leap.
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Tagged buddha, cat, enlightened feline, haiku, John Biscello, mexico, poem, walled out
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How Stones Love
Almost as if the stones, a bundle of prehistoric easter eggs, and petrified sweeps and flourishes of gondoliering motion, were modeling poetry, an implacable ode and incalculable sonnet to the sea, whose flagrant tempest, bound to strict meter, abrades the … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient yet evernew, baja, John Biscello, mexico, poem, prehistory's unwritten pages, saline kisses, stones loving sea
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Orpheus in Mexico
Wherever there is a time-scarred stone stairwell, there is the wandersick soul of Orpheus, forever walking backwards in search of his Eurydice, her heart the lost season in a hell of imagined distance.
It’s All Greek to Me
Katabasis, Greek for downgoing or descent– Orpheus, evinced.
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Tagged ancient, baja, erosion is lovely, greece is the word, haiku, John Biscello, mexico, stones sing
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Cinemagical
Running everywhere, wildly, excited to fill his bucket with moonlight, the young, eager disicple turned to his mentor and said, with a crushing sense of zealous overwhelm– But it’s everywhere! So so much yet none of it stays in the … Continue reading
Turning
After the deluge of pink, new rain softens earth– something’s got to give.
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Tagged how the earth turns, John Biscello, poem, soft soak, soil by any other name, when the rains come
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Sweet & Lowdown
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”–Oscar Wilde In the beginning, guttersongs carved from starstuff– we got down with gods.
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