Jé Maverick » Poetry http://www.jemaverick.com The House Of Maverick Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:00:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Hands Of All Gods http://www.jemaverick.com/the-hands-of-all-gods/ http://www.jemaverick.com/the-hands-of-all-gods/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:09:36 +0000 Jé Maverick http://www.jemaverick.com/?p=648
The hands of all gods are wringing:
they have been emptied of love.
Misunderstood, it has been laid down.
We must gather it to ourselves.
We must turn to others and surrender
all love we guarded from the world.
The great worship is each for the other;
the great praise is one circle
of given,
and received.
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The hands of all gods are wringing:
they have been emptied of love.
Misunderstood, it has been laid down.
We must gather it to ourselves.
We must turn to others and surrender
all love we guarded from the world.
The great worship is each for the other;
the great praise is one circle
of given,
and received.
With Small Hands I Give Great Things
With Small Hands I Give Great Things
]]> http://www.jemaverick.com/the-hands-of-all-gods/feed/ 2 Merry Christmas: Give Poetry http://www.jemaverick.com/merry-christmas-give-poetry/ http://www.jemaverick.com/merry-christmas-give-poetry/#comments Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:08:15 +0000 Jé Maverick http://www.jemaverick.com/?p=602 I want to give a warm season's greetings to all who read this blog, and to all who may find themselves on this page accidently. I wish for you the best that the season has to give in terms of laughter and communion with your loved ones, and that your time together may be warm and enriched with mutual care and respect. If there isn't much to give in terms of material possessions, remember that blessings are not those things that sustain us in a transient manner, and that possessions and belongings will perish or erode in some way - loving experience is the one gift that people will always relish opening, and lasts as long as living memory allows.

Say hi to your loved ones for me, and from me or on behalf of poetry itself, read them a poem that you love, write one of your own to give them as a special gift, or download one of the poems from this site and pass it on (the pdf download link is beneath every poem on this site). Poetry is a wonderful gift, and you will not only be giving to a loved one, but you will also be giving back to poetry. Poetry could always do with that little bit extra in terms of circulation.

Thank you for reading through 2010, and I hope to see you throughout the holiday season and into the new year, to share more of this wonderful journey called life with you. Many blessings!

]]> I want to give a warm season's greetings to all who read this blog, and to all who may find themselves on this page accidently. I wish for you the best that the season has to give in terms of laughter and communion with your loved ones, and that your time together may be warm and enriched with mutual care and respect. If there isn't much to give in terms of material possessions, remember that blessings are not those things that sustain us in a transient manner, and that possessions and belongings will perish or erode in some way - loving experience is the one gift that people will always relish opening, and lasts as long as living memory allows.

Say hi to your loved ones for me, and from me or on behalf of poetry itself, read them a poem that you love, write one of your own to give them as a special gift, or download one of the poems from this site and pass it on (the pdf download link is beneath every poem on this site). Poetry is a wonderful gift, and you will not only be giving to a loved one, but you will also be giving back to poetry. Poetry could always do with that little bit extra in terms of circulation.

Thank you for reading through 2010, and I hope to see you throughout the holiday season and into the new year, to share more of this wonderful journey called life with you. Many blessings!

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As Becky cried, darkness eventually fell,
granting her invisibility.
Joy keeps losing momentum:
negative, obscenely probing questions;
repeatedly stating that understanding
vanity was xenophobia,
yielded zero.
]]> This is an abecedarian verse, written for this site's poetry and literature glossary. The overarching premise of this type of poem is that (beginning with "A") each new word in the poem starts with a successive letter in the alphabet. (A, B, C, D, E, etc.)

As Becky cried, darkness eventually fell,
granting her invisibility.
Joy keeps losing momentum:
negative, obscenely probing questions;
repeatedly stating that understanding
vanity was xenophobia,
yielded zero.
]]> http://www.jemaverick.com/abecedarius/feed/ 3 Abhanga http://www.jemaverick.com/abhanga/ http://www.jemaverick.com/abhanga/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:46:03 +0000 Jé Maverick http://www.jemaverick.com/?p=471
The chimps ate the garden!
They ate the flowers up.
Lily and buttercup.
Oh, yes they did.
The chimps stole the music.
They danced into the night.
The neighbours are uptight.
Oh, yes they are.
The chimps all have sore guts.
They drank the apple punch.
They drank it all at lunch.
That'll teach 'em.
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The chimps ate the garden!
They ate the flowers up.
Lily and buttercup.
Oh, yes they did.
The chimps stole the music.
They danced into the night.
The neighbours are uptight.
Oh, yes they are.
The chimps all have sore guts.
They drank the apple punch.
They drank it all at lunch.
That'll teach 'em.
]]> http://www.jemaverick.com/abhanga/feed/ 0 Ghosting http://www.jemaverick.com/ghosting/ http://www.jemaverick.com/ghosting/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:29:58 +0000 Jé Maverick http://www.jemaverick.com/?p=439
This is a new zone
to float in:
unheard -
with that voice;
with those things to say.
What of the zeitgeist;
the contract;
the franchise;
the promised
land?..
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This is a new zone
to float in:
unheard -
with that voice;
with those things to say.
What of the zeitgeist;
the contract;
the franchise;
the promised
land?
Wisps of smoke.
The world recoils
at this apparition I'm reduced to;
at the flagging whispers, trailing off
towards the inaudible.
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