Tag Archives: joy

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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Puddle

Posted on December 6, 2018 by John Biscello

Find a puddle after a rainstorm. Close your eyes and dream yourself as a six-yr-old dreaming yourself as a magnificent and shimmering work of art. Or as a happy goldfish. Whether as shimmering art, or happy goldfish, open your eyes, … Continue reading →

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Fade-In

Posted on October 18, 2018 by John Biscello

We are not here to tiptoe through the garden at night. We balance on the edge of a slow-whirling blade, a smooth silver plane with teeth, belonging to a star, unnamed, its heart a fiery proof and fade of joy … Continue reading →

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Fools Rush In

Posted on April 1, 2018 by John Biscello

To all those wise, beautiful fools who have brought the medicine of joy and laughter to life, I salute you: Slapstick’s trinity, a monotheistic gag– Salvation’s last laugh. Genius, in trespassing, has its necessary fools– Supreme gag order. … Continue reading →

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Silent Night

Posted on January 10, 2018 by John Biscello

The ongoing rabble and cinematic narrative in my mind is finding how nourishing and full and tender the heart can grow steeped in silence alone.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, Cinema, devotion, dream, heart, John Biscello, joy, love, night, Poetry, silence | Leave a comment

Lemonade

Posted on January 3, 2018 by John Biscello

After the deluge of lemons stopped, adults everywhere, altered by the citric downpour, carved into the future with zest and salacious glee, and set up stands on sidewalks and roadsides, selling lemonade refreshed from the heart of Childhood’s immutable lore.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged child, children, citrus, deluge, glee, heart, John Biscello, joy, lemonade, new beginning, poem, refreshment, simple, vision | Leave a comment

Kingdom

Posted on November 9, 2017 by John Biscello

In childhood’s kingdom, grace-slicked glee and romp– winter moon watching.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged childhood, children, fun, hill, John Biscello, joy, kingdom, moon, poem, Poetry, sledding, snow, Winter, woods, zeal | Leave a comment

Drizzle

Posted on November 7, 2017 by John Biscello

Listen raptly to the furls of drizzle pecking upon thin glass, and you will come to know how close dreams are to trespassing rare intimacy upon closed worlds and distances.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, bliss, devotion, distance, dreams, drizzle, inspiration, intimacy, John Biscello, joy, love, passion, poem, Poetry, rain, sadness, sorrow | Leave a comment

Melt

Posted on October 31, 2017 by John Biscello

Summer night, Brooklyn, girl’s desire for ice cream– Melting, time’s passage.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Brooklyn, haiku, ice cream, ice cream cart, John Biscello, joy, poem, Poetry, ritual, summer, walter the ice cream man | Leave a comment

Dance

Posted on October 30, 2017 by John Biscello

Servicing joy’s turn, feet pray upon fertile ground– Grace, joined at the hip.

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, dance, haiku, happiness, John Biscello, joy, love, painting, poem, Poetry, rain, Singing Butler, song, surreal, umbrellas, Vettriano | Leave a comment