Voice In My Forest Of Feelings - For Richard Doiron
On the road I heard a voice; sounds
that hummed against the sinew and skin
like a deaf person, I heard it through my bones
I heard him sing psalms, chant collages
of angsty images and my soul rose to find him
through the trees, I stumbled, bruising myself
on the bark of a thousand sad words, old
and miserable in what they have seen
and not said
hem brushing against the womblike unfurling of ferns,
I left my own marks, and shushing, and simple verses
for him to find
it was love, singing on the slipped-bank river,
pooled and lapping at the green grasses
that bore the weight of his words
left waiting to be found
easy grace and verve of a thousand birds
sent soaring sonnets up through the sky
into the pockets of scribed skies
where only the best eyes could bear to look
travel and time and untold cigarette,s
on some high hill that held tomes of pomes
buried in the belief I would search
“Come,” he said, “Speak to my flesh, kiss
me into surrender of my penned pleas,
lay against the ground that is warmed
by the thought of you that has filled my mouth
with a thousand spoken tributes; to love, to love..”
Love lent itself to the world, through him.
I took ground to mouth and swallowed
his biblical ballads and sad sonnets
to make them mine, about me, about us…
writer’s writing around the corner from a beautiful belief.
Carol,
Thank you so very much for dedicating this poem to me. It is always gratifying to be validated by our peers, and even more special when given such a gift from so capable and so generous a writer such as you are.
The blood of the poets runs through the veins of the poets, and sometimes it could almost be said that the blood of one runs through the veins of the other. Metaphorically, at least, from whence the poetry emanates, it may well be so…the life force of one such a sustenance to the other…
Richard Doiron
You honor me always, brother. Such writing I had never seen. I have been gifted by your friendship, your wisdom and your words.
I am grateful to share planet and poetry with you.