Poetry
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Courtyard
Somnolescence: soundly sacked in standing stench of sickled soul,searing secret sickness cited silently.Seeming solitude.Site of solace: a central safe of sacred safety,sullied sins swept soundly seaward.Second singing: Savior, certainly sanctioning, soliloquy. Composed October 20, 2003 by Mark Feezell / DrFeezell.comEdited and Dedicated to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0) 2024 Download as an RTF file. Image: […] Read more…
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The Teacher
The sunlight is not shy today.It runs across the leavesblown cold from limbs now dark with knowledge;dust they are.A bird hesitated, left to remain,bathes in summer memory.One leaf blown cold across the silver skyon wings still strong with lost dreams.A second chance at bathing in the summer sunlight:a warmth of Southernness, a woman waited there,beneath […] Read more…
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Resurrection
Eyes made rain in mossy woodsgrey with ancientness of purpose.Love’s reach, like drops on polished glass,rushed down before those who speak their mind – Unworthy of reflection – falling.Love’s reach like stream to wave,Yearning stretch of drying roots,Or desert cactus fat from former rains.Water’s flow, waters flowMany waters flowingDirt from ocean sand dollars,A starfish donning […] Read more…
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1. Manoa Falls
From Songs of the Islands (2005) Go there in the early time —Know the secrets of the trees.Walk the path of muddy rock.Meet the orchid on her knees.Go there in the early time —open field of dreaming mist,clearing in the tangled green,early sunlight gently kissed.Go there in the early time — know for now we […] Read more…
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2. Haleakala
From Songs of the Islands (2005) A gift of years: one small seed.Winds from other shorestossed down,and zephyrs buried life beneath dust.Waiting there, eagerness sprouts from barrenness,choice from indecision,boldness from the fleeting fearof all the crumbling earth.Persistence, silversword:grip mountain stones,decades drinking mistand eating volcanic rock.Sun and snow and heat and wind.Tender leaves widening their strength […] Read more…
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3. All the Fish I Saw One Day
From Songs of the Islands (2005) These are all the fish I saw one daywhen I snorkeled Hanauma Bay:Bonefish, milkfish, manybar goatfish,bird wrasse, saddle wrasse, yellowfin surgeonfish,convict tang, Achilles tang, redlip parrotfish,moorish idol, Christmas wrasse, flat-tailed needlefish.Scarface blenny, black sergeant, orangeband surgeonfish,doublebar goatfish, moray eel, hawkfish,zebra blenny, sailfin tang, ornate wrasse, trumpetfish,whitespotted toby, and a […] Read more…
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4. Kilauea
From Songs of the Islands (2005) We journey on the frozen wavesof roughly hardened, cooled off stoneto find the place where flowing rock, consumed,at once becomes the living ocean.Daring walk across the black,beneath the glowing points of light,we long for distant orange fires,and work our will to move towardthe line where sea and sky and […] Read more…
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5. Pahoehoe
From Songs of the Islands (2005) But Yahweh sees all the stars behind the clouds.Piercing bright, He is the fire in waters above and waters below,and that death He buries within His heartburns fire of life and bursting forth.So hearts of smoothly hardened stoneboil bright below with breath of God. Composed February 28, 2005 by […] Read more…
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6. Kipuka Pua’ulu
From Songs of the Islands (2005) Heard, unseen, above the bending fern, breezes move atop ’o’hia trees.Branches on the mountain slopehold nectar, mist, and birds.Deeper in the air is calm,caught in dreams of resting limbsand ferny moss on all their leaves,like memory clinging to the trees.And deeper still a place securedby cloak of dark and […] Read more…