Author: hyattcarter

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

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

　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

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

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

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