In a cageIn a cageYou put me in a cagenot empty-handed: a foil blanketa dirty diaperstillYou put me in a cageDo you think I won’t remember?Do you think that I’ll forget?Do you think that I won’t grieve the dayYou took Mama and Papa away?In a cageIn a c…
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I find it so exciting when meeting someone who has the inner fire for understanding, a willingness to wrestle and search, converse and allow oneself to be entertained, amazed, enlightened and awed.I experienced this excitement in the meeting of a cello…
Identity Change
Already in bed
settling in, feet unthrobbing
melting to mattress when
“the cry”
Son, 9-mo old, is awake
and unhappy
and it is my turn!
Such a creative day:
finish newsletter
and compilations of
Summer Youth Program Curricula
as well as visit Robbie
and make telephone calls
and keep Volunteers busy.
Ready for another onslaught
tomorrow.
But,
then,
holding my little
boy as he giggles and grins
and slowly drifts to sleep
changed my identity
to DAD
All of a sudden
Music Publishing,
Pastoring,
Teaching,
Organizing,
all fade
as identity as Father
hoves into view.
© Steven B. Eulberg 3/24/93, from All the Good Ones: shavings from the gem tumbler
Visionaries (The language of roses)
Here is another poem that captures my attention
Visionaries
(In Memory of Mary Rudge)
Seekers of the exotic,
riders of water and wind,
shapers of jewels and images,
builders of bridges/breakthroughs,
explorers of Mars, the psyche,
artists, students,
celebrants, elders,
embryos this moment conceived—
whatever we will be in an hour,
tomorrow, a hundred years
or at the last turn of the earth
under moonlight’s incantations,
whatever comes
may we lean toward
the language of roses.
-Claire J. Baker
from San Francisco Peace and Hope (A literary journal devoted to poetry and art)
Steve Eulberg's Poetry and Writing Blog 2016-08-06 06:10:00
Here is another poem I’ve found for you.I was the musician for a marvelous event near Earth Day at the Gallery at HerChurch in San Francisco. This was a poetry reading by the poets of San Francisco Peace and Hope. It was published in their Litera…
Steve Eulberg's Poetry and Writing Blog 2016-08-06 05:48:00
A Better Weaponby AndreA poem is a better weaponThan a knifeBecause a poem will lead youTo a better futureTo succeedA poem will set your mind freeA knife will lead youTo violenceTo jailAnd maybeTo deathPublished in They Call Me 299-359: Writings …