The
best time to read poetry
So, when is the
best time to read Poetry?
In the morning, I
think, when mind
is clear as the
sky at night, dark space
to be filled with
the light of Poetry’s fire.
Where else can
one find inspiration
set like a lens
over the wandering eye?
The focus, there,
is on the meaning behind
the words, the
float a lender takes between
sleep and dream,
that willfully unconscious,
self-inflicted
unguent of parallelism.
In the afternoon,
I think, when the words
like rain settles
dust settle doubt
raised in rooms
of ambition and conflict.
We are strung
like amber beads in the thread
from breakfast
table to work, and home again.
At night, in blue
chair’s pocket beside stones
warm from the
hiss and crackle of orange flame.
And, wherever one
is astride the jealous universe
whose hands cup
the beating heart
dripping sparks
into mouths of caves,
the existential
uterus where
galaxies and
amnesia mix
in sweet
harmonics that direct
the dance of
mating dragonflies.
leave
me alone
the beauty of the
land,
i think from the
edge of the road
between cut
cliffs that rise
left and right, a
man-made crevice
clefting the
horizon,
is the freedom
they evince.
an elder shepherd
rugged
as the land
admires
snow-covered
peaks, takes
comfort knowing
it is his land;
he has learned to
live with it
hand to mouth,
mother and moth.
i walk into the
morning mist,
a low-hanging
cloud
that scrapes the
earth
like a zeppelin’s
belly
scrapes
treetops,
breathe deeply my
damp air.
i love this
dreary december
that feels like
october.
am as refreshed
by it
as the man on
horseback
is refreshed by a
calm cold
sea of stars in a
desert sky.
leave me alone,
each of us
says soundlessly.
leave me
alone to live the
life
i’ve been given.
i made this
choice before i
was born.
leave me. let me
alone.
Mike Foldes
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These poems originally appeared in the French magazine Francopolis
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Mike Foldes is the founder and managing editor of Ragazine, an online literary magazine. He is also the author of "Sleeping Dogs, A true story of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping," and "Sandy: Chronicles of a Superstorm," with artist Christine Devereaux."
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