November 2024
Bio Note: I live and write in France. My poems have been published in anthologies like Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler, Nancy Drew Anthology: Writing and Art Featuring Everybody's Favorite Female Sleuth, and The Cardinal Anthology Vol. 3.
Zen Poem for the Sound
Remembering things is challenging~ the garbage of the self; playing piano; tears like blood drops, in the yelling rain. The sound is only the perception of the brain~ twisted vibration for its own conversion. The raindrops fall on all the free flowers. The mistral cannot blow the sufferings or feelings. A falling petal can tint a tone poem; secret graves, gravely hidden errors, erratic glaciers, cloudy windows, and homeless workers; to gaze at the coming sun on gloomy mornings; a mental eye having a bias against heaven; hail. A dance of raindrops in the light and fireworks in the night; rhythmic echoes. The blowing wind can bust the blue and downhearted life up in chaos; the harsh light of the wars; plants and animals bleeding and kneeling; folks as living rocks, rockeries in gardens; to have a sense of belonging and a language of longing; the women in the temples singing holy hymns; listening to their own voices. The winds and the spirits are inconspicuous; stillness, strength. Heaven is higher than the rain. The noise made by a jet fighter can speed up the breaking windows, the withering flowers, the altering dreams, and the crumbling churches. This noise can resemble the mistral; eons of weathering. In the mist, the unfleshly souls climb up the serene mountains before metamorphosing.
Originally published in Dissident Voice
©2024 Marietta Maglas
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