Ad Vulto : July 2015

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The Impressionist

The Impressionist
Observes
And reflects
Light
The way
A camera would
Except
The Impressionist
Was
The first one
To express
His impressions
And always will be

THE DANCER

You are in the center
Of my dreams
A kynetic whirlwind
With total peacefulness
At the heart

Green Flamengo

(Title by a friend)

No one knows
Yet
Except for one

No one has seen
Yet
Except for one

The Green Flamengo

Except
The only time
I ever saw
A green flamengo
Was
On the cover
Of the first album
Of Christopher Cross

Art

(Title by a friend)

I
Understand
Your
Aesthetics

You
Make
Art
Out
Of
Living

Life
Understands
Through
Art

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Heinavesi

I wrote the following on request while I stayed in Finland in June 2015.

Part of the evening was a Sibelius concert celebrating Midsummer.

One of the invited speakers read my poem.

(Heinävesi is the place where this event was held; a koivu tree is a birch tree))

Heinävesi, Heinävesi
Come and see
There is a pike in the koivu tree
Heinävesi, Heinävesi
Don´t you know
This is the place where water flows
Where children dance over stones
Where water flows where it goes
Once water was high
Land was low
Spirit was high
Spirit went low
Heinävesi, don´t you know
When the stop is taken out
The water flows
Then salmon dance
And visitors glance
Magic grows
Just as water flows
So once again
Heinävesi, Heinävesi
Come and see
There is a salmon dancing
In the koivu tree