I’m down on my knees today
to converge upon the living
who scuttle between the common garden stone
and shelter under forsaken rose petals,
Focusing my manufactured lens
on the honey bee zig-zag
or zooming in and out on the finer, more intricate subtitles
of scalely appendage or iridescent thorax,
I try to find the gleam, glint of fragile wings
capture it, post it, paste it
segments of sanity
membranes of memory to linger upon God’s finer points of creation.
I’m down on my knees today
looking for my prayers,
God’s finer course of dialogue
for I grow gray and cracked, as time shuffles haphazardly
between yesterday’s perception and today’s reality.
I need the camera, its shameless sight
to clarify my personal perspective.
Outside the camera my garden agonizes,
blundered, burdened.
The hydrangea withers, its flower-head bent.
Untethered the dahlia snaps.
Barren,
I cannot heal my children,
cannot exhale after inhaling.
… I covet the compound eye
lenses in triplicate times triplicate
mankind in mosaic medley 360 degrees composition
I beg,
let me hover with the house fly above brow and bed,
and squeal … antennae twitching enthusiastically “Ahhh, humanity!”
Today I cannot heal my children in portraits black and white.
I’m down on my knees
digging for daylight.
Such exceptional imagery! Insects are so amazing. Especially their honeybee with all the work it does for humanity, both providing pollinating for most of our crops to providing us with the sweet nectar of life we love, honey.
We all have become scientists with our cameras. Chronically in real time and high resolution the behavior of not only our gardens, but our lives.
It's always better to be stunningly original than to piece together a collage of words that induce sleep. I thoroughly enjoyed this original composition. And I am wide awake!
The is such a rich subtext to your poem and such profound appreciation for the life that has reproduced longer than any other form of life. Yes, humnity needs to get down on their knees more often and comprehend the ancestry of this planet in our small creatures. Thanks for positing.
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
Selected poems from previous & forthcoming collections together with Q&R apps on each page to enable audio rendition simultaneously with the written text
This is my personal inspirational book of poetry. It contains many poems written for family, friends, and relevant life situations. Hopefully you will find some that will encourage and inpsire you in whatever arena you are found in your circle of l
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We all have become scientists with our cameras. Chronically in real time and high resolution the behavior of not only our gardens, but our lives.
Ron