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Poems 2004

Poetry Index

Out of My Skin
Monarch
A Matter of Scale

Heat Wave
Poet and Pet
Awakening
Rebirth

A Reasonable Life

Snapshots 2006
Haikus
Hush and Listen
Faces
Lizard Thoughts
Thunder
White Rose
Mother of the World
Finally

Poems 2005 —
Passion & Discontent
Absence
Blind
Dance
Dry
The Wake of Disaster

Evening
Mama's Tears
Nude
Old Furniture
Pertoglyphs

Rest
Saved
Sounds of an Empty Promise
Entertainment
Sycamores
Three Quarters
Vientos del Mediterráneo
Weavings

Battle
Giving In

Poems 2004
The Dissappearance of Lao Tsu
Nameless Beauty
Commuting
Memory Game
Every Little Thing Counts
Landscapes of Yo Yo Ma's Brazil
Miles (to Miles Davis)
The Colors of Piazzolla's Tango

War and Peace
Making Friends
Old Glory
Kabul Update
Take Heart
March Madness

Poems 2003
Johnny Cash
Between Heartbeats
"Naked Poetry"
Sunflower Sonnet No. 1.5

New York City
My NYC is not your NYC
SanitationWorker, NYC
Gentrification
Passing By
Belly-button Renaissance
West Chelsea

Poems 2002
Crisis
Finding Each Other
Kindred Spirits
Meteor
To Our Youth
At Sunset
Questions
Hollyhock
Holland in Winter

On Society
Mirrors
McKinney X-Tex
Lady Liberty
Making Friends
Old Glory
Walking

Life's Lessons
Child's Life
Crashing Surf
In Search of the Unknown
Love at First Sight
Holding Hands
Grandpa's Tools

Musings
First Snow
Impressionism
Anonymous
Downcast Eyes
Sagrada Familia

In France
French Gardens
Air Show
Cell Phones 01-04

Churches
Lovers in the Castle


 

Memory Game

The cards are all laid out
each one searching for a pair
the players turn two over
and study them with care.

At first the game moves slowly
like a baby's unsure steps
youth, old age, uncovered
do not make a matching set.

Inexperienced players
reject the similitude,
they have not lived long enough
to know that one is two.

Eyes untrained by love and pain
have not seen the greater scheme
where opposites are partners
sharing a common dream.

Love and hate a couple
ever married in tight bond
reconciling differences
as they try to get along.

Memory is not a mirror
but the play of light and dark
of days and nights spent searching
of journeys ending where they start.

Gain and loss are twins for life
not separate in nature;
may we possibly have the one,
and not experience the other?

Young eyes seek pairs in likeness
to verify belonging;
old eyes seek pairs that contrast
to satisfy their longing.

The cards are all laid out
a mosaic of relations
a game for new adventures
a game of expectations.



© 2004 Richard Sidy

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