matariki

matariki

Worlds meeting in the sky, Māori and Greek names for the nine stars of Matariki by Robert Gendler & shared on Wikipedia

sisterly
huddle
of stars
that rise
just before
night’s
curtain
shall catch
alight
on sea
and ridge,

that say
time to till

volcano blue dreaming

volcano blue dreaming
for Keikei, a speaking of a photo
june 2022

We contest the dream…. a Weathercat heartfelt snap

volcanic island
greened in grey
faded into rise
arpeggio to
forte peak
arpeggio
to fade
a gather on
sea dark
thin horizon,
pale sky
blue bar`
painted along
its foreground,
volcano beaching
on every compassed
shore,
volcano
blue dreaming
its morning,
a tree
picked up

simple song

simple song
Yon Chome Cafe, Koenji, Tokyo
1993

Rio Tajo, Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain, photo by Neil Cummings on flickr

	 			
just as heaven pleases*
	the wind can blow
just as heaven pleases
	falls the simple snow
just as heaven pleases
	i may go
where i’m let   where
no man may let me go.

i must take stock
 of what i’ve become
i must take stock
 of what cannot be undone
i must take stock
 when evening comes
   under the bridge
and the cold shadow
			there.

just as heaven pleases
 the roads fall away
just as heaven pleases
 the wind plays on the
			hay
just as heaven pleases
 i say what i say
heart shown or
		out of reach

heart shown or
		out of reach

*’Just as heaven pleases’ is a phrase from one of translations of the Daoist text ‘Daodejing’, that I have read, but I no longer know which one.

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Click on the link above to hear a reading of the poem.  The accompanying music is from the Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo in an arrangement for solo guitar and performed by guitarist Michael Christian Durrant.