Click on the Play Button below to hear my poem, “Sound Logic,” read aloud. “Sound Logic” is one of 81 poems in my new book, The Logic of Rhyme, available on Amazon. Sound Logic A poem may be likened to a syllogism in sound,Wherein homophonic premises are initially found,And so arranged, by the ear, and,… Continue reading Sound Logic
Month: July 2024
Sunday Morning
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. A Sunday Morning Walk in Fog Once upon a rhyme, in clandestine fogAt mild morning-time, a silence sublimeSo enchants the effervescing ambient air That every creature I see seems at prayer. A headstand beetle on the narrow winding pathPuts brow to ground and… Continue reading Sunday Morning
Aubade (or Morning Song)
Click on the Play button to hear the poem read aoud. Aubade 01(or Morning Song) There is a light seldom seen,In morning-time, that is golden green;It can wisp along the horizon and suffuseThe sky with tints of red and orange hues,And in the sky overhead a rhapsody of blues,Colors arising as from an artist’s palette,Flowing… Continue reading Aubade (or Morning Song)
Rainbow
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of my poem, “Rainbow: The Darkness and the Light.” RainbowThe Darkness and the Light A rainbow at its rootIs black as sootImpalpable and muteAs from a lofty butteDay from darkness softly breaksWith myriad colors iridescent as fruit. A rainbow’s two vectors end not at the… Continue reading Rainbow
Effervescense
Click on the Play Button to hear a reading of my poem, “Effervescence.” Effervescence Effervescence,As if to tease,Is a wordBubble-ing over with e’s. It ends and begins with e,E’s at stem and stern,And three e’en between,E’s appearing in precise returns. E’s total numbers five, and, by fate,Doubly divided and spaced evenlyBy four sets of consonants… Continue reading Effervescense
The Light Luciferous
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of my poem: The Light Luciferous There is a light luciferous, we are told,Devoid of heat, and brutally cold.It warms not flesh, but chills the bone,Not gossamer soft, but hard as stone.It is far from bright, as black as coal,Its preferred abode the blackest hole.… Continue reading The Light Luciferous
The Planet Pascal
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. The Planet Pascal Circumnavigating its sun in a galaxy far, far away,Is a planet named Pascal that decided to go astray. And so P slipped out of orbit to wander its wayAnd explore new vistas of space, come what may. This escape,… Continue reading The Planet Pascal
Stop and Wonder
Click on the Play Button to hear a reading of this poem: Stop and Wonder To allow us to stop and wonder, Whitehead, in words concise, Says, “No thinker thinks twice,” And then asks us this to ponder. It may put your mind in quandar And is neither here nor yonder, But frosty fire, incendiary ice, Quantumicity, a roll of the… Continue reading Stop and Wonder
Upside-Down Man
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of my poem. Upside-Down Man There was an upside-down man, named Fred,Whose future was behind him, and past lay up ahead.He stood straight up, by standing on his head,And never began living, until he was—dead!He yearned for resurrection, but with feelings of dread,That he would… Continue reading Upside-Down Man
Darwin’s Avuncular Carbuncular
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of my poem: Darwin’s Avuncular Carbuncular After meditations long and savage on our human lineage,Darwin took on the look of a chimp — the very image!No surprise, some pet owners look like their cats and dogs,A caveat for any who would make pets of ferrets… Continue reading Darwin’s Avuncular Carbuncular