New Songs [for Kassandra] *complete* (V)

[cenacle]

this morning added 'muses,' a song for old loves, and for what i think now, that desire tangles, teaches, leads one through life, for better for worse...other ways, too? i am wondering...

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this morning added 'watering music,' written sometime deep in the rainy seattle night, i had just enough waking in me lift to send love flying out here & there...

[cenacle]

this morning added 'glaze,' which reads to me very like one of my 6 x 36 nocturnes...a lot of mileage to be gotten out of singing for and from want, with defiance, and something akin to hope...

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this morning added 'cathartic,' the first of several wedding poems that conclude this series...as my wedding day drew near, i thought of it more deeply than i ever had...suddenly it was real, and near...the sober and joyous truth of it...

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this morning added 'remain,' the next in the wedding sequence of poems that conclude this series...if not belonging to one of the major religious institutions of one's day, there is a tendency to feel outside, or rebellious, some form of 'other,' i think it is more important to get some grounding in what one does believe in, and work it to wider & clearer spaces...

[cenacle]

this morning added 'stranger,' more of a love poem than some previous, i think weddings sometimes as they get nearer become less about love and more about endurance...i was trying to remember the roots that matter more than the ceremony...

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this morning added 'joint,' written the morning of my wedding day, in the church basement men's room in fact, heh...this is the penultimate poem of the whole series...the last one is still being finished...again...

[cenacle]

this afternoon posted 'wedding,' the last poem of this series...it took five weeks to finish this poem...originally wrote it on the night of my wedding to KD, new year's eve 2005, but it wasn't quite done...so i worked on and on about it...tried again & tried again...last weekend at my favorite punk coffee house in seattle tried one more time, and this time it took...so the series of poems is done...now i can make a book of them to give to KD for valentine's day, if i am on my game and quick

peace,
raymond

[judih]

syllables are with you, ray.
great series and a dramatic finish.

taste of let's hear it.

(alas, i'll never tune into your radio show if this time difference keeps up)

[cenacle]

jude, there is a radio archive of my shows at my website...

last night, as Valentine's Day was ending, and KD was falling asleep, I was finishing the book of this series of poems made for her...i'd planned to have it ready for her b-day a month earlier but the last poem came out slow and delayed...

in any event, she woke to the book of these poems this morning, and so some good feeling in that...

it was a long series, took 13 1/2 months from first poem to book-on-table...i don't know what pomes next...some ideas burble but not fully cooked yet...heh :twisted:

[judih]

where ray go, faith go
poems flow

so
looking forward