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Fall 2006   Vol. 23 #1
Fall 2006   Vol. 23 #1

Poems/Not Poems

All for the Birds

By Art Hofmann

 
 

 

There is here an ocean of air,

Bearing waves of argument,

Interpolated by a crew of birds.

 

The owl at night puts its one big question,

At daybreak, finch syntax, patient,

Reassures us all will ever be the same

If only certain simple rules are followed.

 

Crow doubt and criticism

Deconstructs this premise.

Blue jay objection and disorder

Dismisses all the suppositions.

And always garbled turkey explanations,

Absolutely conclusive, and totally illogical.

 

Make, dear birds,

Make us a great ship of air.

And sparrow with the golden crown,

Let your single piercing dying note

Pipe, pipe, pipe us all aboard.

 

 

 

 

From the Fall 2006 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 23, No. 1)
© 2006 Art Hofmann

Author

Art Hofmann is a retired teacher who lives in Santa Rosa, California, where he is a wood-worker, a vipassana adherent, a friend of many and a doting grandfather. He regularly attends the Thursday night meditation session started many years ago by Robert Hall and now led by Thomas Pope.

Author

Art Hofmann is a retired teacher who lives in Santa Rosa, California, where he is a wood-worker, a vipassana adherent, a friend of many and a doting grandfather. He regularly attends the Thursday night meditation session started many years ago by Robert Hall and now led by Thomas Pope.

 
 
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