Friday, October 2, 2009

October 2, 2009














let's follow
the moon tonight
since our
hearts have spoken . . .
tracing starlight


how can
i not worry?
delicate wings
perched upon flimsy
tree limbs


a typhoon's
coming and all think
of is you


end storm!
give us the eden
we've dreamed of


all i can
give you at this time
is my heart
beating as yours
our breath as one



your hands
today forecast more
than weather



pull me in
to your breasts and
feel one
song sung by two
in the heat of winter



you do
and don't, the tearing of
branches in winter


late night
waiting for the typhoon
to hit . . .
and you, on the computer
reading my poetry


steeped in thought,
you feel winter on
his way home


can you
fulfill your promise
to become
an old man's lover on
a monopoly board?


what'll happen
when the typhoon hits?
strange brew



robert d. wilson

©2009

Thursday, October 1, 2009

October 1, 2009
















like a star
she's at the same place
every night . . .
blinking on and off
like a neon light


an egret,
the north star, moored
in clouds


it was nice
of her to txt me
tonight,
telling me that she too
tires of the darkness


deep morning . . .
a cat cleaning the
palengke floor * palengke: Tagalog for market place


my puppy
loves me as is . . .
a sandal
to nibble on
when boredom calls


another
set of eyes drew
me into
a dream i'll harbor . . .
like a ship docking


eating clams . . .
the sea dripped slowly
from her lips


is it some
kind of magic?
a touch of
spring? a blossom
wanting to be picked?


your eyes . . .
a different side
of winter


are you one
of those who smile
and can't say
no, a comic book
character at night?


humid night . . .
watching winter
pass me by


outside my
window, a volcano
slumbers . . .
waiting for her
lover to return


i wake up
to words covered with
pollen


another
set of eyes drew
me into
a dream i'll harbor . . .
like a ship docking


eating clams . . .
the sea dripped slowly
from her lips


is it some
kind of magic?
a touch of
spring? a blossom
wanting to be picked?


sudden wind . . .
a chill as she passes
through me


is it God
weaving us together
into a
tapestry that can't
wait until tomorrow?


time didn't
exist when the rain
came and went


like children
we close our eyes and
hold each
other's hands in a
a toy jeepney


Early spring?
an egret spreading
her shadow


neither of
us want to be alone
facing walls . . .
without candles
and warm smiles


slowly,moon
paints a smile on
egret's nose



will you
enjoy poetry
painted in
captions above
makiling's mist?


moonlight . . .
dancing across your
breasts


sudden wind . . .
a chill as she passes
through me


is it God
weaving us together
into a
tapestry that can't
wait until tomorrow?


time didn't
exist when the rain
came and went


like children
we close our eyes and
hold each
other's hands in a
a toy jeepney


Early spring?
an egret spreading
her shadow


neither of
us want to be alone
facing walls . . .
without candles
and warm smiles


slowly,moon
paints a smile on
egret's nose



will you
enjoy poetry
painted in
captions above
makiling's mist?


moonlight . . .
dancing across your
breasts


dream
of me while the
serpent sleeps
and rhinocerouses
blindly follow


©2009
robert d. wilson

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

September 29. 2009















red veined plant,
pirouette again for
me on clumps
of sod, while i rest
beneath this tree's shadow


bobbing wife . . .
my in-law's home filled
with water


houses waist
high in water
and your
mother's bed, dampened
with phlegm and lost dreams


winter rain . . .
she calls her lover
a typhoon


where were you
saints of the stained glass
window, when
Christ stepped down from the
cross, treading water?


everywhere
the typhoon's path . . .
flooded homes


buddha stares
past the cries of young
mothers
carrying their babies
through flooded villages


villagers
stand in line for hours . . .
waiting


how can we
sleep in a fish bowl
of water;
the whining of wind,
the laughter of trees?


typhoon,
control your temper . . .
sweep our words


you stare
through bamboo slits
at white men
floating past you
in metal dragons


the rumble
of dragons passing
through winter


robert d. wilson

©2009

Saturday, September 26, 2009

September 26, 2009





where do you
sleep when the sidewalk's
flooded
and the store eaves
have waiting lines?





what is rain
to a horny cricket ?
thick darkness


the ashes
of elders and frogs
together
in a graveyard
swapping stories


spiders, the
web they built inside
her, empty


brown out . . .
a hundred different
worlds with their
own set of wings
and nowhere to go


rain dances
on her roof without an
umbrella


typhoon!
on the telephone
talking to
a client, his puppy
takes her last breath


rambutan . . .
a sweet fruit hiding
behind thorns


brown out . . .
she burns candles
to ward off
a darkness filled
with childhood guilt


you don't scare
me typhoon, i too
blow off steam


are all the
women here takers
wanting to
be on magazine
covers in drag?


watching clouds
with his eyes closed . . .
hollow man


the frog monk
prays inside the
damp temple
asking for a
different song


calm down, dog;
form in your mind a
sutra stone


do you
dream of me at
night when
darkness walks past
you with a smile?


when the rain
stops, toads enter the
blow gun's mouth


deep sleep . . .
an urge to slip
into a
solder's armor
between dark moons


long before
dawn, comets
mimic dolphins


this morning,
rain and sun come to
the quiet . . .
nesting in a cup
of coffee


a retired man
sips morning coffee . . .
fluorescent tide


black pajama
people dodge flies
and locusts . . .
a thousand years
in deep tunnels


early morning . . . 
the stream between 
her legs



that moment
at night when the moon
stares at me
with a sheepish grin . . .
my wife steeping stars

September 26, 2009 : The Halo Halo People




the halo
halo people sleeping
on steps;
this heavy wind
the persistent rain






starless night . . .
ghosts lighting candles
for street kids



sleeping
above the water on
boards made
of bamboo and
dragonfly wings



storm warning . . .
the halo halo
dream of night


waking up
from the same dream
every night . . .
virgins dancing
in deep gorges


out of reach,
a brass ring waiting . . .
heavy rain


i bathe
in the light of a
nearby moon
crocheting hate into
neutered rhinos


dragonfly . . .
spare the rice field
that feeds us



opo will
will never strengthen
a people
used to being
another's monkey

* opo: tagalog for yes sir.


the meowing
of vendors selling
seasons



only you
can massage my feet
with tears
shed for the child you left
behind in samar


will buddha
step on the snails
eating rice?


deeper
inside i retreat
to the
wonderland i
painted as a child



tondo . . .
restless feet in
a dragon' belly



the trash
beside the river
tonight
reminds me of kids
swimming in the pasig



covered with
filth, the old beggar
greets winter


forever . . .
the toothless old
woman
posing for a photo
beyond the moon


spoiled rice . . .
a good day for our
worker's dog!


the monster
with his skin turned
inside out,
begging for money . . .
breathes the same air


like them, a
barren tree men
walk past

these people
love the company
of rats?
commune with cockroaches;
erase a child's dream?


scaling fish . . .
the pungent scent of
a buntis girl

* buntis: tagalog for pregnant


everywhere,
the naked little boy
without shoes
treating winter
like a children's toy



robert d. wilson
©2009

September 26-27th, 2009


i slept through
morning, waking
up to write
this tanka and watch
her bow to puzzles



mid winter .. .
the down syndrome boy
eats alone


the lantern
i bought for you
last night
was was sold to me
by lazy fireflies


darkness, rain . . .
a typhoon sleeping
on the couch


i bought my
friend a used cell phone
to text me
when she gets off work
. . . fencing canned sardines


i am not
a failure, dismissing
ghosts!


spoiled child!
you think the world revolves
around you . . .
there's more to rice
paddies than mirrors


centuries . . .
the evil around us
in crushed ice


waking up
from the same dream
every night . . .
virgins dancing
in deep gorges


storm warning . . .
the halo halo
dream of night


sleeping
above the water on
boards made
of bamboo and
dragonfly wings


starless night . . .
ghosts lighting candles
for street kids


robert d. wilson
© 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009

September 24, 2009

she can't be
alone with herself
considers
sword play with wind mills
a waste of time


if i have
to drink with you . . .
we piss stars


do they wake
up beside cockroaches,
watched by rats,
the stench of feces
in humid heat?


your shell,
turtle, a refuge
from words


when i wake
up, has it been
a dream . . .
a scribble in
another's notebook?


is it the
puzzle that keeps us
floating?


the woman
she was when we
married
left home in a car
she couldn't fix


dragonfly . . .
spare the rice field
that feeds us


robert d. wilson
©2009