Robert Strzalko's Blog – January 2010 Archive (3)

A BEACH OF WHITE SAND IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA

Eleven days of silence

Is what she said

About the Buddhist monastery

In Tibet

She and her two companions

Had just come from

Hair legs and braided hair

Sleeping on concrete

Not speaking even once

Which for her

Must have been

Excruciatingly painful



She couldn’t really say

If she got in touch

With her inner self

But

The spiders creeping

Across her pampered flesh

Fascinated

Her more

Than the… Continue

Added by Robert Strzalko on January 24, 2010 at 8:25am — No Comments

THE FIRST TIME I SAW PARIS

I was thirteen

Almost fourteen

My brother, fifteen

I didn’t know about Maugham

Or that he had written there

I didn’t know about Cézanne

Or that he had painted there

Changing the way

The world would see

I only knew

That it was good to take in Paris

Through the eyes of a boy

Bursting with so much passion

That it would soon be impossible

For me to contain it

In any reasonable way



I didn’t know anything… Continue

Added by Robert Strzalko on January 24, 2010 at 8:23am — No Comments

STAR BURNED DARKNESS

Dawn is coming

Sublimation

Bullets

Say

Splatters in the wind

Spreads its wings

On

Starry nights

When

Solitude descends

Leaving untouched

Wounds buried in my heart



Ocean songs

Echo

Ripple

Across anemone floors

Glisten

Like yesterday’s pictures

As we move

In worlds unformed

Cry for release

Die to be born

Again and again

They call me



On the prowl

A sleek, black… Continue

Added by Robert Strzalko on January 18, 2010 at 5:31pm — No Comments

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