Poetry Blog by Michael Kwack
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Résumé
Résumé / Michael Kwack
Love is,
like art,
dull without passion.
Marriage is,
like enterprise,
tough without fortune.
Home is,
like chair,
harsh without comfort.
Life is,
like sleep,
dry without dream.
Death is,
like letter,
empty without story.
Will is,
like poem,
absurd without wit.
Thursday 7th January 2021 4:43 pm
Play in the Night
Play in the Night
--Michael Kwack
From two o’clock
When owls hoot
Up to four when cocks crow
Surely I will be kept awake,
To watch the secret play
Of the conscious and unconscious.
However, I will not see
The queer performance inside me
As a mere dream in the night.
If I long for better plays,
More I will wander dur...
Tuesday 29th December 2020 3:20 am
Putting Out the Lamp
Putting Out the Lamp
In the dusk of early evening, one day,
I awakened from a belated nap,
And came to find nobody back home yet,
Only the wall-lamp flickering away.
I, the child, quickly getting quailed,
Started to run away from the dark haunted place,
But soon stopped for looking backward
For some reasons I couldn't quite understand.
Probably it was the ...
Tuesday 15th September 2020 2:36 pm
sad dreams
was it true,
sleep depends on tears?
to refill the well
that had dried up by day,
or to wet the lids, at least,
by dreaming sad dreams,
with that tearful hope,
had the sleep come by night?
Sunday 26th July 2020 10:40 am
A Pilot's Joke
A Pilot's Joke / Michael Kwack
Once upon a time there lived a flying man
Who kept flying all over the land,
Never thinking of landing.......
......One day he accidently landed
Somewhere, or Nowhere, on the sand......
He left a poem when he left that land,
After having lived alone happily ever after:
Quote,
A Pilot's Joke.
I used to love sand,
For, wh...
Saturday 18th July 2020 3:34 pm
To Summer
What springs up in spring
Will all fall in the next fall;
Summer sums all we have,
Saying we are rich,
Not having to worry where to winter.
Sunday 12th July 2020 1:57 pm
The Birth of Octave
Dominoes are hanging, like 88 wind-chimes, inside a
Record shop window; whereinto an old Irish priest, once a dreamer of becoming
Michelangelo, or Liszt the virtuoso, today called
'Father Manyon,' is peeping; recalling the scented
Solitary pine, on the hillside of his home town; whereunder he used to recite
La Belle Dame sans Merci, often wishing to
See the pale sighing face o...
Thursday 9th July 2020 3:02 pm
From the Garden of Afternoon
Leisurely and alone,
I was wandering in a palace garden.
Flowers were completely gone,
But deep green
Summer leaves were fully grown,
And on each branch
Small birds were all the way chirping:
Seemingly for me a perfect afternoon
To be lost in poem-reciting!
Suddenly a wind arose,
When a human voice came to my ear,
Saying low yet rather vivid:
It's...
Thursday 2nd July 2020 5:24 pm
Arrows of Rain
To hang on a wall of my empty room,
I think I will need a picture of rain.
Hitting the ground, and springing up to ankles,
Rain wets the socks and trousers from below.
My eyes chase along
Roof-edges, streets, sidewalks,
--tick, tick, tick--
Checking all, one by one,
To find a dark brolly,
And a woman in black enamel shoes,
Lightly treading the...
Saturday 27th June 2020 7:47 am
The Poor Little Dove
The Poor Little Dove
To watch the wind play with the wave,
I sat on a bench by the museum garden pond.
Then a small pigeon came flying,
Landing to her feet, tiny and cute,
And stared up at me, a bit intensely,
Only blinking her eyes, with no other move.
She looked like a baby as a camera model,
Getting me to recall my infanthood picture.
I took s...
Thursday 25th June 2020 11:55 am
An afternoon's letter
A word,
whispered
in secret;
A name,
dropped
there-under;
A woman,
reflected
there-in;
The transparent
afternoon,
splashed
on her
thin fingers.
Friday 19th June 2020 4:55 pm
Rain and Balloon
Rain-drops are laughing,
Falling
Like blossoms
Of cherry trees,
Or snowflakes,
Onto the garden
Pond
I am alone
Floating on,
A ...
Monday 15th June 2020 3:11 pm
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