New old stuff...

I mentioned before that I find poems with very short lines - no more than 3 or 4 words - very appealling. That compactness of communication seems very tightly controlled and beautiful to me. I also like an ambiguity with grammar that leaves a line open to personal interpretation.




Untitled
(late 80's)

Broken,
boundless,
faithless,
few.
Forget today
and seek the new.
Sorrowful,
regretful,
seen
the beauty of
what could have been.
Silence,
promise,
fractured,
true.
And see
the damage
done to you.
To others
woe,
the things the same.
Disregard the number
and the name.
Irrelevant
to you
the cost.
Goodbye to what
we all have lost.