Tag Archives: dreams

Rising

Posted on June 19, 2020 by John Biscello

Dreams, undeferred, coupled with Hope, that thing unfettered, to keep us company and warm our solitude, as we stumble bravely through a long night’s journey into the bated gospel of days rising to claim us.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dreams, faith, hope, John Biscello, juneteenth, love, poem, Poetry, transformation, we the people, what dreams may come | Leave a comment

Word-Pray

Posted on June 5, 2020 by John Biscello

Please understand that words matter. This, in no way is meant to belittle, diminish or dismiss the power of action, but rather, to add “words” to the conversation as a sort of auxiliary spiritual sibling, or bolts in a timeless … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged bardic voices, dreams, james baldwin, john fante, langston hughes, language, legacies, literature, poems, Poetry, textual healing, the human saga, timeless words and art, word-pray | Leave a comment

Case in Point

Posted on April 15, 2019 by John Biscello

Images tell us the right kind of nothing, how one way or another you as a witness will prove unreliable in a world governed by parallels. (Image from Lost Highway)

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged david lynch, doppelganger, dreams, John Biscello, lost highway, patricia arquette, poem, this haunted universe | Leave a comment

In Stars

Posted on December 2, 2018 by John Biscello

Behind starry veils, embers crackle blue and gold– You were there, dancing.

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dreams, haiku, John Biscello, love, nightscape, the secret life of stars, Van Gogh | 2 Comments

Parcel

Posted on August 23, 2018 by John Biscello

Dreams washed up on shore, all part of Beauty’s parcel, to move us, then fade.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged balloon, beach, dreams, haiku, John Biscello, kelp, sea | Leave a comment

Hands

Posted on July 17, 2018 by John Biscello

This is the text which inspired the story I performed in a Story Slam a couple of years back. The theme was “Risk.” Here’s a video clip of the presentation (sorry, it’s sideways, but then again, so am I). One … Continue reading →

Posted in Prose, Uncategorized | Tagged art, courage, dreams, imagination, John Biscello, love, passion, storyslam, storytelling, Taos | 15 Comments

Breeze

Posted on July 7, 2018 by John Biscello

More erotic dreams about the girl from the sea– Longing, rimmed with salt

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dreams, haiku, John Biscello, longing, lust, sea | 10 Comments

Kite

Posted on June 26, 2018 by John Biscello

My desire to feel God is the same as the child’s dreamlipped desire to kiss the red kite bobbing and arcing far and away tethered to his wrist a wordless prayer given over to wind and sky.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dreams, God, innocence, John Biscello, kiss, kite, love, wind | Leave a comment

Bare

Posted on June 26, 2018 by John Biscello

She cried, guttural, the slit in her pillowcase harboring years of unheld yesses and scented missives; find me here, destitute, sunproofed, the girl of bare knees and forgotten dreams.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged bare, dreams, girl, guttural girl, John Biscello, poem, sensual, yes | Leave a comment

Ode to West Wind II

Posted on June 21, 2018 by John Biscello

History, written by the wingless, selling secondhand feathers to falsify flight’s truest course; turn a sharp eye to the sun, Birds of Paradise, arc, plein air, to claim in transit the legends of west wind.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged creation, dreams, John Biscello, legend, myth, reality, shamanism, soul, spirit | Leave a comment