DUENDE    

'found death in life, may find life in death'

                                        Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A residue of darkness

lives within us.  I wrote

about the womb dream

and the blotches of dark

long before my stroke.

Caused by deep trauma

in birth or being lost with-

in yourself during stroke etc.

There must be millions of us

walking around unable to talk

about our darkness, this is not

evil or sinister only to much light

can warp the dark.  When I wake

from a deep sleep my room is

stippled in dark but there is

always the dawn breaking through

my sight.  We live in a world of

light and dark and society can't

always be right because it shifts

back and forth.

For example Keats and Coleridge

lived loved in life with death and

in their sight were right.  I'm trying

to live with my darkness and that's

good enough for me, to see.

NEGATIVE CAPABILITY

 

 

If it’s good enough for Keat’s 

then Its good enough for me. 

Cockneypoet with negative 

capability, he knew his lot.

Stroke, Aphantasia is a hurdle 

and a half-paralyzed aphasia

A poet without a voice.

 

I am stating facts of cold grey matter.

I’m-poet-tent in a wheelchair under

Their tree with vibes of the Buddha.

These men are incomparable to any-

One else. Old age sickness and death.

Suffering is the truth, way of the world.

 

Harmony, Sentimentaliity is a blasphemy

reac out for a touchable dream.