Tag Archives: Poetry

Teem

Posted on September 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems In the lotus pond, ripples and respite echo in sync– Romance tenders its wake.

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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.

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Elegy

Posted on September 10, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems At the rooted center and trembling wake of this elegant haunted universe symmetry and chorus call upon us intimately as first and last witnesses emptying out to the grief and cherish of every taken breath … Continue reading →

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Boats

Posted on September 10, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the shadow-stained haunt beneath the stone bridge a pair of empty rowboats have gently digressed and gone adrift   from merrily merrily merrily to the edges of solitude mirroring the span and proof that … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Two

Posted on September 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Side by side, farmers reigning symmetry in repose– The sky, blue to the taste, with chalky traces of cloud powdering the empty course– Images of the floating world persist in material means and long takes … Continue reading →

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Nuptials

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Here, a plot of overgrown grass and conjugal motives– A desirously bowing limb decked out in pink and green, caressing the time-darkened stone of one who has passed from now to now-again… The enduring portrait … Continue reading →

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Portal

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A most gorgeous, delicate, tenuous tenor of web, embroidered with translucent beads of morning-cut rain, this the ephemeral lens through which to view a landscape, a scene, quarter-notes of a dream, or dreaming itself pinned … Continue reading →

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Elegy for the Living

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Out of the world’s slow unseen turning, a darkly candid limb photobombs the dead, en route to heaven’s extended mouth of silence– The living, below, crossing gravely their own secret vigils, never witness the lancing … Continue reading →

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Elegy

Posted on September 3, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Time out a cemetery plotted on higher ground overlooking the railroad tracks crisscrossing bouts of traffic houses accounting for lives lived in shuttered flashes the dead amounting to subtlest vigils kept in the way wind … Continue reading →

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