Tag Archives: forest

Green Dark

Posted on February 8, 2024 by John Biscello

We enter forests at the liminal risk of time lost to the vagrancies of dreaming and silence of choir— Engendered by echoes and bated tense we move on at the mercy of mirrorless haunt.

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Currency

Posted on October 16, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The value of grief and mercy intersecting where metaphors are left behind to green and thrive and assume the tendered form of a lonely doll wide-eyed in its longing to touch the ruptured pinwheel the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged buddha, doll, forest, headstone, japan, pinwheel, poem, sado island, shrine | Leave a comment

Path to Mercy

Posted on October 13, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Among the hallowed assembly of serene countenances and stillness humble rabbit bows down supplicating not only for mercy but to hear the laughter of the lost children resounding endlessly in a forest of echoes and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged buddha, compassion, forest, japan, jizos, love, mercy, poem, rabbit, sado island | Leave a comment

Forest

Posted on September 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We enter forests at the liminal risk of time lost to the vagrancies of dreaming and silence of choir– Engendered by echoes and bated tense we move on at the mercy of mirrorless haunt.

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged bamboo forest, forest, interior, japan, kyoto, poem, Poetry | Leave a comment

Set

Posted on September 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Where the moss grows wilder, clamoring to efface or colonize, or perhaps model a seasonable fashion makeover to the stone deity lotus-locked in stunning repose, who long since ceded his material crown to the menial … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged buddha, forest, gogoan, monks and poets, moss, niigata, photography, poem, Poetry, portrait, ryokan pilgrimage | Leave a comment

Roots

Posted on June 14, 2018 by John Biscello

My heart, forever the weeded ace and wandering fool, scored to secret pines, sings of resident gloam pooled in that forest of backlit signs, which grows beyond its clipped horizons to invigorate departures, spurred by the genius of wordless roots.

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Pagan

Posted on April 19, 2018 by John Biscello

Between blades and pines, she lay still, spreading forest to stars that filled her.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged blades, consummation, feral, forest, haiku, John Biscello, love, nature, pagan, pines, poem, Stars, union, woods | Leave a comment

Wonder

Posted on March 25, 2018 by John Biscello

Each spring they return, bound to renew small wonders– Innocent by turns. (Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, children, fable, forest, ghosts, haiku, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, jump rope, play, poem, spring, tree | 1 Comment

Happenstance

Posted on March 25, 2018 by John Biscello

You mean to tell me that God is Bo Peep and her sheep are not sheep at all but rather dream-spiders spinning intricate patterns and noodle-strand mandalas to freestyle a movable feast in some obscure forest known by some as … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged anima, Artwork, dream, fable, forest, imagination, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, myth, poem, sheep, spiders, spirit, story | 14 Comments

Keen

Posted on March 9, 2018 by John Biscello

Her secret refuge, at childhood’s keen edge, flirting with grace on the rim.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Blue, cyanotype, forest, haiku, image, John Biscello, lake, poem, Poetry, refuge, shadow, trees | Leave a comment