Word...

Imagine a world without poetry. Without the sonic bombastic rhythm of well versed soliloquies rippling purposely against hungry ears. Imagine life minus the spoken words of thoughts verbalized into choruses of enchanted free verse. Imagine a forest of wise groits their latent syntax of struggle, strength, and purpose falling silently in a world of uninspired silence. I cannot imagine such a world, and so I give you the Tree of Ochun where words are the rulers of thought, the arbiters of sonic souls articulating feelings of sadness, joy, passion, beauty, suffering, forbearance, and above all, love.

Pull up a seat to this proverbial feast of words and gorge yourself on the fruit of my labor.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Expanding Horizons

Here at NSBBP I will be expanding the topics or rather areas of interests beyond family and cooking. I must admit that I have a lot of interests which include but are not limited to poetry and the arts. I also will be posting some of the causes that I taken an interest in over the years. You will also see new causes that I have taken up or want to give exposure to. So for those of you that follow my blog I hope this is just as exciting for you as it for me. Enjoy. 

Thursday, March 18, 2010

They Rise




the pen
slides lucid across my wrists;
onto clean white paper

ballpoint breath of cold blue
faint trickle of sentiment
seeking the warm
pulse
of her neck

the sentences run on in whisper...

but are these words better off unlistened to, unheard of?


do you know where my thoughts have been, she says?

how I've thought of nothing else but hunger
and your kiss like breadcrumbs dusted unto my thighs

and the fingers aren't as quick as thoughts
they forget things they travel on memory and touch
when I'm alone at night they roam
wishing on black stars of remembrance

my words she says
corrupting the blinding white expanse with avarice
yet making it purer somehow

we cannot go it alone
so these vows I bear with you

shadows will log our journey
building their crusades on thin blue lines


I am writing this for both of us

my hand cramps
i cannot shake these feelings of troubled love
they clog my knuckles like arthritic bloodthoughts
so i write them out in slanted sentences waiting for the wine to leave them sober

i lay awake most nights
my eyes writing poems
on the ceiling

they rise and stain my prayers for us like smoke.
© d. durand worthey, 2002-10-16