POETRY
|
POET:
|
|
POEMS: |
| The State of Affairs |
| Where do we go from here? |
|
more
POETS
|
The State of Affairs A fairs A far is A fair is . . . The state of affairs is some what of a large question Which Affairs? there's home love country spiritual international community What do we dare speak of . . . It's almost never Love, but for lust we've lost immunity What of opportunity? Do we answer the door? Do we hide below deck? It's been a long couple of units of time I gotto keep this flame going if the lights gonna get out in the open hope-ing your above ground smiling sunshining rising moonglowing setting glowing Glowwing on this ball of rock tumbling balanced precious on its axis rumbling rolling toward a rather unknown destination what is it you want? To know? I bet I could find it at a library where the books smell old. I'm sitting at the diner table when I came over the secret scribbled on an old menu in a shaky hand "Order Chaos" Close your eyes wish it was summertime and you were a butterfly The wind rises up and you flap to find the flow but you create turbulence, you know, when you go Air: that, the area of your wings moves could one day create a t- -o -r -n a-d- o
Top More Johnson Other Poets