Very bad news

[Angeline]

midnight on a good friday
by eagleyez©

scottish bass, hand drums,
sitar like a cloud, east--west hybrid, strange beauty-
siren magdeline
mary melody.

vestments
and pope hats
and confirmation
from church to church-

i feel jesus, i see mosques, synagogues, rehabs,
i look at the river
i read the sermon on the mount
i watch politics
and machine guns
slung over
camoflauged backs, pass no judgement but listen to the violin.

the old irish priest
slugged me in the gut
cause i spilled the
holy wine
on good friday, alter boy ready to rock-1968

the house was packed
the PA was broken
the confessional
was empty

but the congregational faces
haunt me like
kids at a punk show

knockin into my mic stand
and chippin my tooth, and
i turned the other
cheek,

put my foot on
the monitor
and held
back the revenge-

ended up sitting on the
rickety stairs
outside
under the stars.

holy thursday
good friday,
lovely saturday-so they say-
think i will drive to the ocean,
see if the rock rolls back.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

 

[pelegrino]

I just... agree with Underyourspell!!!
Yeah, put all those songs in here, Angeline.

 

[Angeline]

Requiem for a Night's Sleep
by eagleyez©

3 am,
I do stretches and long to listen to loud music,
Boneshake "In a Silent Way"
But Miles is Sketching Spain
And the minutes creep-

You come to,
"whatcha doin baby?"

I chalked it up to all day coffee
After a splendid dinner,
"just touching the ceiling sweets."

Moments later you sit up, me in your chair
And you in the hand me down half couch
Questioning should I try
As newsboys and donutbakers rattle and roll
Out on the river road
And I can hear the snow melt and
Smell the mud a month too early,

Haul off the Juice in the Fugue Hour, Fridge Light, then
Crawl like a crab, sidewise, under powderblue Snowgoose sheets,
Beseeched "roll over and let me get the hip"

And my breathing slows as you go,
Funny Valentine Count Basie snickers tween us-

Fuck it, still dark, I'm going for a paper
It's only 33 till 5 and you are tapping like a
Titmouse, amusing me with whiskered profile

And I get Neil, of selective hearing, night man leans in and says "huh?"
Old boy ain't foolin me and it's still dark as a piss ant as I ascend,
Upward, the key and
The keys to the day jangle in my warm hand.

Too early for the Stones
Late enough for Bartok,
Perhaps Vaughn-Williams-

All that matters flashes across your face
As I bend to peck your lips with my glasses slung low
On my beak.

 

[neci]

 

[Saint Peter]

 

[Laurel]

You're both so lucky to have known and loved each other. I can't think of two more amazing people. You're in our thoughts.

 

[MrBates2]

Honestly I don't know who this is about, so it seems crass for me to express any feelings. However, I am not insensitive in hearing of someone's loved one who has died, especially if it was suddenly.

Please pass along my sympathies to the surviving family.

R.I.P Terry and thank you for giving Shara 10 years of love.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

 

[bluemuse]

Angeline, I am so, so sorry. He was a lovely man.

 

[Mr Noone]

My deepest condolences, Angeline.

—kotori

 

[cjh]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rQMjmCF3_jA

 

[AllyRose]

We thought of you with love today.
But that is nothing new.
We thought about you yesterday.
And days before that too.
We think of you in silence.
We often speak your name.
Now all we have is memories.
And your picture in a frame.
Your memory is our keepsake.
With which we'll never part.
God has you in his keeping.
We have you in our heart...

​

 

[Angeline]

Lovesong Number One
by eagleyez

She dreams
And Daddy
tiptoes in
Omelette kitchens
her rain is jazz
bending webs
across red shingles
in the north of all norths
where rapid eye movement
closes the lid
with 4am showering
and the little one
monologues, head up
as shoes and machinery
turn on the subtle sun

She dreams and
its a long way down
to reach brushing arms
and ears pressed on bellies, heart syncopated as if tympanies
and scentless lips take a daylong taste to carry
out on industrial thruways
in the dumptruck dawn
as my traction carries overland wagons of futures past

grey rooftops
and 5am
coffee girls
at speed limits traveled
under all radar and
arching the hunch of ribs filled with oxygen
and the purposefuness of breathing.

I would tear up the tracks-
level mysterious mountains
and layer the sweetest music
where the conductor rousts
the switchman
in the almighty blanket of love's procession

downfilled and breast shaped on the earliest of days
and the occupation
carries all this, the entire world's more harmonic
volumes and the density of tones
in absolute devotion in tiny
brushfires of votive candles,
the gift of day once again
pulls the Lazurus miracle
as sure of love's engine as will the
begin that spins the clocks-

She dreams and wonders if the
kiss of daybreak
is some history
or my signature
stamped by coffee lips
tasting of joy.

In this grand impressionism
to walk when we meet at days end, spinning umbrellas
two by one
and stitched
with the golden thread
of some mighty strand-
She Dreams
in such beauty
as the door quietly clicks,
Sequestered in all her travel
with passion jewels and buttons of gold
wrapping me in her heart.

 

[Neonurotic]

What a shock. ee, will be seriously missed.

I'm sorry, Ange,
sent you a pm.

 

[greenmountaineer]

I am so sorry, Angeline. I've been away without access to Lit. and just learned of your loss.

 

[bogusagain]

Condolences Angeline. Poetry are the only words that make sense at such times.

 

[bluebell]

I am so sorry, Angeline. I've been away without access to Lit. and just learned of your loss.

I just recently wandered back as well. A great sadness, to be sure.

My deepest condolences, Ange. My heart is with you and yours.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Terry was a really great guy. I had some really great conversations with him, and of course lots of banter on the boards with him. So sorry for your loss Angeline, I just found out the news.

*Turning off the lights on the salad bar*

 

[Equinoxe]

I am so sorry for your loss and for the loss to all of the those who knew him.

And I am sorry that I did not offer my condolences much sooner. It has become really quite inexcusable of me.

 

[Angeline]

Terry was a really great guy. I had some really great conversations with him, and of course lots of banter on the boards with him. So sorry for your loss Angeline, I just found out the news.

*Turning off the lights on the salad bar*

I am so sorry for your loss and for the loss to all of the those who knew him.

And I am sorry that I did not offer my condolences much sooner. It has become really quite inexcusable of me.

Thank you both for the condolences. Today is three months since Terry passed and I still miss him so much.

Bob, I should have contacted you but it has been a pretty rough time for me, you can imagine.

 

[Maria2394]

Eagle Eyes writing poems for the universe now. Hugs, Sis. just huge loving hugs. terry always treated me kindly. I know I will miss him.