{"id":2127,"date":"2016-04-02T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2016-04-18T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T22:28:11","slug":"your-words-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Your April words&#8217; worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2127\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2127-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2127-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2127-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2127-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RM_HappyBirthdayBillS6.mp3?_=1\" \/><a 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href=\"https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RM_MotherMine1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.reggiemorrisey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RM_MotherMine1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-2127-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><h4>Happy Poetry Month!<\/h4>\n<p>Hear\u00a0five of my audio poems, added as of April 18:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honoring William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li>Celebrating the end of winter<\/li>\n<li>Marveling at the will to live<\/li>\n<li>Recalling music to my ears<\/li>\n<li>Honoring\u00a0Earth Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read a poem about my brother, Ed, and see his artwork on my site under the Sketchy menu:<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">On Seeing My Brother, Ed, the Brave<br \/> by Reggie Morrisey, August 5, 2009<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">The tribes will gather<br \/> at Sycamore Canyon.<br \/> Elders from the north and east,<br \/> braves from the south,<br \/> the councils from the valleys.<br \/> To set the tents<br \/> and sit by the fire,<br \/> To circle brave Ed,<br \/> to name his spirits,<br \/> the bobcat, owl and hawk.<br \/> To walk west<br \/> to the ocean\u2019s edge,<br \/> reflecting peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">I, Dove,<br \/> speak of passage,<br \/> of life\u2019s ever flowing stream,<br \/> of the Brave<br \/> who breathes music,<br \/> whose hands<br \/> conceive of new things<br \/> under the sun.<br \/> Who casts light visions,<br \/> who crafts moccasins<br \/> for the tiniest feet of the tribe,<br \/> so they can walk with him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">I, Dove,<br \/> speak of my spirit brother, Ed,<br \/> who, like the bobcat, delves so deep,<br \/> some dare not follow.<br \/> Who, like the wise owl,<br \/> hoots to the dragonfly and the whale.<br \/> Who, like the hawk, trails the curve<br \/> of\u00a0the Earth and is not afraid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">A band of beads<br \/> circle his wide-brimmed hat.<br \/> All who meet him<br \/> grasp his panda bear kacinas,<br \/> native dolls of chenille stems,<br \/> his panda bear wayas for peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">The stars will gather<br \/> over Sycamore Canyon<br \/> and south at Malibu.<br \/> The mist may blanket<br \/> all things known.<br \/> Would that you could see him, too.<\/p>\n<p>Read a poem about nature:<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Rising \u2013 Cedar Key<br \/>by Reggie Morrisey, 2009<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Cedar Key is the coast of nature.<br \/>Yes, nature prevails.<br \/>The tide rolls out where mullets fly<br \/>and oysters rise in a<br \/>field of puffy bar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">A full-moon spring-tide takes <br \/>more than a foot of water down.<br \/>They say it takes an elephant gun<br \/>to down a braying air boat as it thunders by.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Even black mangroves spring up here.<br \/>Like olive trees with their green berets.<br \/>Like Rosewood blacks who fled<br \/>the redneck terror of the Roaring Twenties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Cedar Key plays home to migrant snowbirds.<br \/>Some in condos \u2013 with binoculars.<br \/>Some high stepping through stressed bars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">They dare not eat the oysters<br \/>for the poison rising up<br \/>inside the earthen shells.<br \/>To live and die by spring tides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Slowly, the bar fades<br \/>and beds are made<br \/>as water rises.<br \/>Slowly, the church bell tolls,<br \/>warn as the creaky dock <br \/>where big boats wait their day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">As hogs rev their motors <br \/>outside Annie\u2019s Caf\u00e9, <br \/>soon to cruise,<br \/>we ready our canoes.<\/p>\n<p>Read a poem about Venice:<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Venice - An Older Woman\u2019s Story<br \/> by Reggie Morrisey, 2003<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">A mermaid climbs the sea wall,<br \/> dabbing lagoon perfume.<br \/> Venus descends to bask in her beauty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">The light above Venice is her crown.<br \/> As doves coo evensong and<br \/> swell in San Marco\u2019s square,<br \/> the sky in the cap of the cathedral<br \/> is a scroll of her golden hair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">We see the ghostly fleet of the Doge<br \/> returned with its spoils of war,<br \/> four Byzantine horses<br \/> pinned by this duomo\u2019s door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">The music of Vivaldi<br \/> springs in her narrow streets.<br \/> Like his orchestra of orphan girls,<br \/> cloistered behind a screen,<br \/> Venice is mysterious,<br \/> more beautiful, sight unseen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">We approach the glass blower\u2019s gate<br \/> and hear her bridge of sighs<br \/> in the uproar of the furnace and<br \/> imagined, sad goodbyes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Gondola, accelerato and traghetto<br \/> vie for a place on her Grand Canal.<br \/> A female city cloaked in romance history,<br \/> swoons for the tenor\u2019s passionate woe.<br \/> Yet steps back from relentless waves<br \/> lapping at her toe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Piazza, arcade, fetching<br \/> human voices.<br \/> Nary a humming motorcar.<br \/> Frowning women fling open windows,<br \/> her silent police, her vigilant spies.<br \/> They could sound the alarm,<br \/> could bid us to hide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">From Attila the Hun to<br \/> the cannons of Napoleon.<br \/> The Lombard invasion,<br \/> the fall of Milan.<br \/> From the fourth Crusade<br \/> to Pope Hadrian,<br \/> Venice whirled back<br \/> from the battles of man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Once abandoned the buoys.<br \/> Hid channel markers.<br \/> Her maze of shoals impassable.<br \/> Venice the obscure, impenetrable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">We sip espresso at a bustling caf\u00e9.<br \/> Taste a feast from the sea<br \/> when our night arrives.<br \/> Drift in sleep as church bells peal<br \/> and Casanovas lie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Dream of powdered wig, silk gown and veil.<br \/> Of a peacock mask for the Carnavale.<br \/> Of a woman who has survived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2127-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2127-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><div id=\"attachment_1684\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a 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