Tuesday, August 25, 2009

'Ku Train Challenge #2


partly

I don't remember
winds of winter storms or snow
frozen glacial stares

railroad

railroad graveyards
trains longing for their heyday
iron horse resthome

above

above me fat clouds
threatening to turn gray
beautiful monsters

formula

partly cloudy
the formula for rain or
heat on the horizon

smokey/smoke

in smokey mirrors
she is eternally yours
reflections on ice

chair

on the good red earth
ancestors remained planted
enemies on chairs

bubble

my mind, a bubble
what? why did I just say that?
lost and found my brain

cub

in curve of arms
bundle of new life thriving
captures a lost heart

peculiar

stranger than fiction
that guy next door, sorcerer
peculiar his grace

lattice

the web of life we weave
our blink of an eye lives
a gossamer shawl



all poems are ©Odilia Galván Rodríguez, 2009




Monday, August 10, 2009

'Ku Train


bassinet

she ~ in a quartet
from the bassinet...blowin'
brass they sed only mens played


welcome

welcome mats melting
doors close before they open
talk to Elegua


four

Crow hit by four cars
came out without a scratch
shapeshifted to rubber ball


lichen

trumpet and sax
we were a symbioses
a Lucy and Ricky


burro

she moved slow ~ molasses
sweet ~ inviting those hips
her hands and footwork


perfume

always smells earthy
freshly ground chocolate seeds bleeding/
the essence of me


shiny

being a have not
I'ma new copper penny
all shiny and new


the knack

pretty little thing
she was too good for him
kept right on shimmying


gold/golden/goldfish

she was four then..when
the first of many goldfish
ended in her mouth


pencil

hot lead grazed her neck
she whipped out her slingshot and
killed the buster dead


August

the month of her birth
conceived Christmas eve
on eggnog and tamales


roll

on a roll holding
her mind together by threads
yesterdays at bay


beetle

tweedle deedle a
blue beetle bumming around
my new house of cards

rake

rake a comb through it
that mop be a broom
you need a new 'do

orange

peeled like an orange
him in the palms of my hands
begging me to stop

window

brown eyes say it all
love and fear - the sound of it
diving in your pools


grip

a pearl of you
under my skin winning me
an itch I dare not scratch

note to readers: 'ku (short for haiku) train is an idea cooked up by one of my compadres over at Once Upon a Time in the Projx poetry board ... You take a word - that the last writer left for you - and write a 17 syllable poem. It can be a haiku or a senryu or a poem of your own choosing but short. You use the word or a feeling, image or inspiration that comes to you based on that word. Then, after your poem's written you leave a word for the next person to write a poem from. You don't think too much about it,
the whole process is quick, like flash writing, you go in - there's a word -and you write, leave a word, and go... simple, challenging and lots of fun! Write on Neil!The above are my offerings to the process so far. c/s