A Toast to Buñuel
Surrealist Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel A red spirit Wafting sweet Eaters of beef A libation complete Into this glass Our bodies thrown Bones rattling Melting cologne To golden ages A ruffled bride Galaxy dreams The gown cast aside Barks the dog To wide-eyed keep Bourgeois arms From knowing sleep LiNdA
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Words unspoken In a silent room Their meaning carried On a falling leaf The leaf that fell From your hair As you passed beneath A drooping branch A voice unnecessary For your visit this night The voice of a Muse Need not roar A hushed murmur Indeed a whisper Has volume enough To penetrate the void The distance between us Marked in time But not intent For you are ever present In the spaces between The days are numbered The voice sublime As a rhythmic harmony And your quiet utterance Fragrantly sweet As a sliver of a moon Crushed in lavender...
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6th century mosaic pavement Beit Alph Synagogue, Israel In the longest night An abundant sky Sheds celestial tears On a desolate planet Wrapped in the arms Of my astronomad We orbit the Earth On a lithic asteroid Our Elysian chambers Warmed by effluvium drifts A deepening repose For star-struck voyagers The Solstice Star Blinks noiselessly A shimmering note On our nebulaic bed Then a headfirst plunge Near the axial tilt Clinging to stardrops We return to Earth...
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Joshua Tree, CA An Ode to the Beauty of California A desert blush Warms a somber image A pile of stones Randomly placed By an ancient hand Through which a mighty river once ran With glints of gold and silver Carried from a northern land The precious metals Less precious than that which bore them And now through a cracked landscape Erupts a cacophony of colors Nodding heads and smiling eyes Sing praises to the sky The song to become their requiem Voices of exultation arise Springing from this riotous choir Their power unrestrained Though the chorus is whispered And the finale gently breathed The mountains echo the Sacred Wind Tinged with granite And here we will lie down Between the scorpion and the cactus To honor this hallowed valley...
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The Thunderstone of Ensisheim Woodcut of Ensisheim Meteorite that fell into a wheatfiled in Alsace (now France) the morning of 11-7-1492 Midnight ink burning light Grazing celestial kisses Languid eye of stardust Impassioned pleas And astral yearnings Emboldened ebony veil Glowing embers Within crystal spheres Swimming sea of Night Colliding galaxies Novatic emanation Fervent spirits streaming Flaming hair Metallic tooth Bites the shadowed throat Scorching fireball Bursts a cloud Plows the gentle earth...
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