S. K. Kelen Life Poems

  • 1.
    White glow melts life
    freezes shadow, twisted bottle
    the birth of the transistor
    and then.
    ...
  • 2.
    Bugsa Bunny you're the sanest man
    in all Italia last hope for risorgimento
    singing Santa Lucia in the barber shop
    glorious ears twitching your gondola
    ...
  • 3.
    wild animals become divinely rare
    their habitats wild homes are soft earth & tree
    cannot flee before the bulldozer concrete
    flame and smoke desert where only wheat
    ...
  • 4.
    I.

    Over the road from the three star Galaxy Hotel is our hotel,
    the old park on Phan Dinh Phung Street,
    ...
  • 5.
    I

    The sun is burning a hole in your pocket
    and though very slowly you are making
    ...
  • 6.
    Apart from its voracious appetite for mammalian blood
    little is known of the leech's ways. Does it know love or
    family life? is there communication?
    Leaf litter's monster weapon, what can you say
    ...
  • 7.
    Out back of the cafe a square iron cage
    made hard corners for a honey bear
    the boys saved from a bulldozer.
    Crouched like a dog, the cage
    ...
  • 8.
    Who steers the thunderbolt?
    Events conspire: there's the one
    Growling like a tigress, calls you ‘mate'.
    Choose life. Love's duty will not wait.
    ...
Total 8 Life Poems by S. K. Kelen

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