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    Some Poems and Essays: Selected Poems 1971 to 2011
    Some Poems and Essays: Selected Poems 1971 to 2011
    Some Poems and Essays: Selected Poems 1971 to 2011
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    Some Poems and Essays: Selected Poems 1971 to 2011

    By Stephen Proper Gredler

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    a selection of poetry from twelve manuscripts. Explores many subjects: love, conscience, dreams, linguistic ideas, descriptive writing, poetry for poets, poems that teach writing, extrication from writer's block.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 10, 2014
    ISBN9781483542522
    Some Poems and Essays: Selected Poems 1971 to 2011

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      Some Poems and Essays - Stephen Proper Gredler

      9781483542522

      a free verse for catterpillar moon

      arc of moon

      abstract lightning veins

      and rivers a caterpillar gaze

      a midnight thunder

      haybarn night of blackness

      and cornfield dream

      a free verse for catterpillar moon too

      rain moonlight

      prismatic droplets

      thunderous intensity

      black caterpillar

      sprouted birchleaf

      umbrella bemused

      alice approaches

      with capital idea

      contentment wonders

      ortho correlate

      time extant living

      as placed mirrored

      a flower of white

      a shooting star lights

      like a flower trace

      across my vision

      disappears

      without a sound

      a fire

      leaving no remains

      in the nightsky

      time is divided

      in my heart

      A Painting

      Abstract, surreal

      in a field of history

      strewn with artifacts

      that age deciphers,

      as with the depiction

      of sound waves

      coming with the tide-

      Wisdom expresses

      this music of life

      expiring

      as reasons for history

      move to dance

      and preserve the words

      daubed-

      Solipsist

      who endears the self

      centered with knowledge,

      conjure death, you

      hold the key

      to understanding

      oneself-

      Notes to words abound where once Dali occurred.

      I invoke death in flight seeking truth in realism.

      In shapes transmogrified from earthly sources-

      a painting.

      a still sultry heat

      in nightsea

      endeavors

      one notices

      the advent

      of new weather

      with sense

      of dragonfly

      hearing ship

      warning

      close

      a still sultry heat

      arising to the grasp

      a sudden squall

      felling a mast

      this wetness

      vapor stung sight

      suddenly new

      insect flight

      wet wings

      gliding

      ABACUS

      O promontory. O stone crypt.

      Island of night jutting out to sea.

      A lighthouse looms, daubed gently by time.

      I mourn...

      the moonlit aftermath of storm-

      apparition of angularity, ode to fear

      edging rock near a spray flecked shore.

      Extinguished by the history of tides,

      formations of reefs lapped by ocean swells;

      turbulent waters ride the tide-

      the gulf bisects two shelves

      shoring upon purple cliffs.

      Blackgull ! : rise from this tower’s dusty hearth.

      Soar into moonsky high above the gulf.

      Wend signs of infinity, draw cliffside.

      A body crossed with timeless wings,

      raven hues swooping ‘neath the fullest moon

      Show down and remiges glistening of gold.

      Grey indigo shadow: gallop over ocean swells !

      Froth tipped crest

      welling out of trough,

      ripping into sluiceway,

      converging with the rim.

      Surging seventh whip

      brought to frenzy-

      sucked by stormwind.

      The moon watched

      its golden beamlight

      illumine cliff heights.

      Blackgull ! : soar into space !

      Grey shadow ! : oversurging waves !

      A full arc, form electric alighting into calmness.

      A cave inside the cliff echoing winged heartbeats-

      signs emit from Blackgull’s craw, beaked into basalt.

      Entering a timeless city ensconced below high grasses,

      Ceilinged by glowsky generated by heathworks,

      Geometric spheres mirroring plumage. Shadowless.

      Alighting

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