a new poem.
Current mood: happy
Category: Writing and Poetry

hello friends. i've been away for a month or so while i re-organized my
work life. glad to say the process is nearing it's exciting
completion as well as a brand new beginning. please pardon my absence
on your posts.

ti

a new poem is posted below. the title is based off of my newest book.  i was going through some old poems and i came across one that i did NOT write but loved very much. it inspired this piece.

new poem:  psalm in L major

to call you attractive would limit your name
to definitions
and you are indefinable
your communication, subliminal
unconstrained to a vocabulary of words or songs
i write these psalms as a tribute less than what you have always been
outside of the realm of understanding
beyond the stars
beyond boundaries, more than inexhaustible
held only by the framework of your own design
reigning for ever as the king of me
in threes and their multiples
you are denominator
and i be common, a peasant girl in comparison
begging bread
i be submissive
i be advancing when i should be retreating
stagnant when i should be seeking language to explain you
helpless to contain you in meaning
to call you mine
would mean i own you
to call you love
would me i've told you
what i'm thinking
yet 26 english letters in any order couldn't convey you
with your permission, i call you letter 27
and incoherent moan 69

but it restricts you and it isn't enough

and i be humbled to call you at all
would run to catch you
(as if you'd ever fall)
be at your service, your liege
to call you sky could not contain your vastness
ground, negates your core
and i want more
i be greedy
eating when i should be full
but never tiring
never wanting you to stop
never asking you to explain your name to me
if i just called you man
would make you mortal
would make you hero
and make you good

and it's not enough

you are a poem not fixed in form
a verse not spit in rhyme
written on my heart, a contradiction
as half an apology to the universe
for not being on par with you
i sing you psalm
in L major
i articulate your notes in the most human way i know how
to be opposite to you in a show of respect
polar opposite, while still desiring your accents
be my all
be my absolute
be my infinite number
be my melody at midnight
step down off of the sun just long enough that i may glimpse you
and i be thankful
ever grateful for your brightness

8.17.08 ti kendrick randall

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