15-02-2010, 05:34 AM
Another poem from Leonard.
http://www.counterpunch.org/poems01292010.html
where one sees shrapnel in the eyes
and chest of a young girl. To the north,
stains on the mirror of humanity,
where civility reigns with propaganda
as its idol. No truth allowed, speak
the oppressors. No words of dissent
or foreign tongues. Don’t even think.
I breathe-in this deathlike dogma
and spit. My tongue lags like a dog
run to extreme. In your words I find
small flashes of lightning that spread.
The wind gallops past, a riderless horse.
All I can put in the bag of this poem.
Leonard J. Cirino (1943) is the author of twenty chapbooks and fourteen full-length collections of poetry since 1987 from numerous small presses. He lives in Springfield, Oregon, where he is retired, does home care for his 95-year-old-mother, and works full-time as a poet. His book, Omphalos: Poems 2007, will be published by Cervena Barva Press in early 2010. His collection, after Yang Chi & others, is from March Street Press, 2009. His chapbook, Russian Matinee, is from Cedar Hill Publications, 2009. His full-length collection, Chinese Masters, is from March Street Press, 2009. Cirino will be the featured poet at the Outsiders’ Art Festival, Lincoln, NE, in August 2010.
http://www.counterpunch.org/poems01292010.html
The Bag
By LEONARD CIRINO
The self in the south of oppression,By LEONARD CIRINO
where one sees shrapnel in the eyes
and chest of a young girl. To the north,
stains on the mirror of humanity,
where civility reigns with propaganda
as its idol. No truth allowed, speak
the oppressors. No words of dissent
or foreign tongues. Don’t even think.
I breathe-in this deathlike dogma
and spit. My tongue lags like a dog
run to extreme. In your words I find
small flashes of lightning that spread.
The wind gallops past, a riderless horse.
All I can put in the bag of this poem.
Leonard J. Cirino (1943) is the author of twenty chapbooks and fourteen full-length collections of poetry since 1987 from numerous small presses. He lives in Springfield, Oregon, where he is retired, does home care for his 95-year-old-mother, and works full-time as a poet. His book, Omphalos: Poems 2007, will be published by Cervena Barva Press in early 2010. His collection, after Yang Chi & others, is from March Street Press, 2009. His chapbook, Russian Matinee, is from Cedar Hill Publications, 2009. His full-length collection, Chinese Masters, is from March Street Press, 2009. Cirino will be the featured poet at the Outsiders’ Art Festival, Lincoln, NE, in August 2010.
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