Poetry

You may have noticed a few new poems I've published on this site recently. I stumbled across this amazing project where a renown guitar player lays down gorgeous tracks beneath a master poet reciting poems. It's called Strings and Sonnets. Check it out. After listening to these prodigious poems, I was inspired to try my hand a few again. It's been quite some time since I've written a poem.

Source: https://philkeaggyfriends.bandcamp.com/album/strings-sonnets

I am now inspired to record my poems and then write instrumental music to go with them just in the way these fine gentlemen accomplished their resplendent album. I'm sure I'll put them out on the podcast and here on the website as I get each one made. It is a project I'm very excited about. Now I just have to learn how to get all of the other projects I'm excited about finished and shipped, because real artists ship. While I have published many things, there are also many things on my back burner or half finished that I must get to eventually!

Spade to Pavement | A Poem

There is a subtle peace 

In putting shovel to drive

The spread blanket of white lain down 

Softens the sounds around

Dampens footfalls and traffic beyond

While you work a steady line

Plastic tip or metal strip

Meet concrete beneath the brilliant sheet 

The constant push

The quiet scrape

Accented by plush plops

Dripping from your broad tool

As piles are made beside

Though this way is greater

Both in effort and in time

Than following behind

A quick cacophonous machine

It affords a space for the soul to quiet down 

Racing thoughts fall like flakes

As your body works your mind rests

Decrease the layer and raise up the heaps

While you defrost the cake beside your carport

Your mind settles 

Your body finds the rhythm

Of the shovel and the snow 

And the pavement below