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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The Poet


I've just been riffling through a few old working manuscripts and stumbled upon this one written sometime between 1969 and 1971.


THE POET


That is, if I dare say, my destiny. To grasp

and to expand, each feeling moment. Eternity

not mere renewal. Fearing the used-words


of my thought. My destiny. Are the words mine

to use, is any word, a property. I speak

in fear of loosely spoken


words. My destiny!


***********


Today and alone, I return. To what –

all has changed and still I know it is.

My returning. Home and the word

And the thought of the word. Home, and the skies


are open, and a song

of welcome pounds through my veins. Home,

and my eyes can see the song.


Today. And no more alone. I return.


***************


And night conceals. Not even a whisper is heard.

So silently another dawn – and the fields,

the fields open as if to swallow me. I sit

and remember

(before the night/ another today)

a home. A destiny.


Alive. A sound. A shattering.

A whisper of you

from you for me. All is alive

with sound. The yawning trees, the birds


burst into song – the trees and images

of you. The blossoming and songs.

Songs in my mind and you


beside me. A song. A touch of you

on me; I feel


that you need me (not only I need you)

a sound, a touch – transforming words into

a destiny.



Malcolm Evison

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

TRANSFORMED (for Helen)

TRANSFORMED

(for Helen)


Right now I feel

the urge to scream

forget the aching limbs


dance deftly

on the brim

of my emotions.


Right now

I feel the lure of love

the light


that breaches

my stoical defence.

I see your face


I glow with joy -

right now

there is no you or I


as we rejoice.


Right now I am

alive with you -

I feel -


imbibe the air of this

our perfect world.


Malcolm Evison

13 December 2006