Diary of a Poet

Volume III

Growing Still© (1988)

"I have some papers

they are written on

just a few things

i want to say"





(I believe it was my impatience that caused me to release

this volume without the introduction of the man who edited

it for me, Rob Eaton. He was a very busy man; a business

owner and an exuberant activist in the Ellsworth, Maine

area, but found the time to take two volumes of poetry that

i had given up for trash and forge this one from them. I

could not begin to rewrite his wonderful introduction, so i

shall not try... But, thank you, Rob Eaton, just the same!!!)

SAMPLES

165



My typewriter’s case is old

but its soul is new to me

It fills my hungry duplicator

whose output sets me free



Thus i am a salesman

also the pressuring force

Wandering full of wishes

yet determined to the course



My typewriter, an old Royal

has a ribbon that is new

And it fills the many pages

that, by finance, are brought to you



Thus i am a writer

editing what i can

Ambitions turned realistic

the completion of my man



My typewriter, gray and heavy

a finger floor to dance upon

Though manual, so now ancient

will be here when i am gone



Thus i am a mortal

restricted by life’s stage

But i shall live forever

in black and white, on page!





176



I have looked in all the corners

and what i need is not in here

I have even checked the attic

musty cobwebs full of fear



i have crept into the cellar

when spears of day invade its black

But when the search is through

i find i am still filled with lack



I have opened my door in offer

i have whispered, i did shout

Now all that remains

is a lonely man



.....



reaching out!





182



See the crazed beasts lurching

a fast funneled stampede

their souls, inside, are screaming

pushing for higher speed



Hear their howls of anger

above the rushing roar

know not where they are going

or what they are pushing for



Smell their foul breathing

feel their tremored beat

staining their perspiration

against the summer’s heat



See one lose its footing

be pushed aside to die

our modern super highway

its cars just streaming by













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