Month: July 2024

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. 　The Bā-Bēatitude of a Smile Early one morning in a quiet place,God beheld the babe’s smiling face. So enchanted was God by the smile,God paused and tarried there a while.Within the smiling face God basksAnd babababeling asks,　“Just who are you?”　“Not one, not… Continue reading The Bā-Bēatitude of a Smile

Click on the Play Button below to hear my poem, “The Alphabit,” read aloud. “The Alphabit” is one of 81 poems included in my new book, The Logic of Rhyme, available on Amazon. 　The Alphabit If you would know the genuine articleThen know that the primal, the pristine particle,May be named, on the wings of… Continue reading The Alphabit

Click on the Play Button to hear a reading of my poem “Bull the Frog,” one of 81 poems in my new book, The Logic of Rhyme, now Live on Amazon. 　　　　Bull the Frog At sunrise Bull the Frog always awokeTo bellow a booming and beautiful croak.The sound would such pleasure evokeThat he would croak… Continue reading Bull the Frog

Click on the Play Button to hear the poem real aloud. Note: this is a section from a longer poem of mine called A Process Theology in Rhyme, included in my book, The Logic of Rhyme, available on Amazon. 　　　—Concrescence— It was Whitehead who was the first to show,How all actualities come and go,In bursts… Continue reading Concrescence

Intimations of Sentience Overheard from Evergreens in a Forest Pristine—A Poem by Hyatt Carter Click on the Play Burton to hear the poem read aloud. . . Two sounds we dread with a pain raw and max:Screams of a chain saw, the chop of an ax. If you think that we are woodenly mute,Hist! we… Continue reading Intimations of Sentience