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Neruda's Fountain
by Glenn CurrierIts mouth gurgles Gregorian chants -
no half notes or quarters or sixteenths -
but from its bowels steady-flowing vowels
leaking, laughing over stones shaped and smoothed
by eons' incarnations of seas and sands.
Its loins sing and hiss the hymns
of cells, and tissue,
their issue rained softly into the soul,
cosmos songs haltingly hurled
clear of the grasp and snarls of life.
Its heart beats its bloody rhythm
ticky ticky tick
slither slidey slip
pushing pushing
gushing gushing
up and over
edge to edge
it's relentless surge -
so that heart and mind
ease their edgy throb
slowing, staying, stilling
whispering, sighing, filling
emptying, and restoring.... peace.
Dedicated to Pablo Neruda
09/01/2002 07/24/2001
Posted on 10/12/2002
Copyright © 2025 Glenn Currier
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Julie Adams on 10/13/02 at 06:18 PM Glen, this piece is thick with flavor, imagery, and the drum of a creative heart...this is a great piece you have selected to send...my best wishes are behind you...thanks for sharing...peace...jewels |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 10/20/02 at 11:27 AM like a stream contouring over stones and gurgling and I a frog leaping in it's fervor. |
| Posted by Bruce W Niedt on 07/02/05 at 01:52 AM This works well on many levels: as a tribute to a great poet, as a work that obivously has fun with the language, as a piece rich with imagery, and even as a "concrete" poem in the shape of a fountain. Well done! And congrats on the Spotlight! d:-) |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 07/02/05 at 10:17 PM Glenn, I don't think I've ever read your poetry. 'Neruda's Fountain' flows over my mind like cool water. Neruda is a peoples' poet and I think you've dedicated a beautiful poem to him. I hope you don't mind if I add you to my friend's list. Congratulations on member spotlight - an honor well-deserved.
~Chelle~ |
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