Patti Masterman Poems

Time goes by
And we read all the words-
The popular words, the disguised words,
Whole burial mounds of words,
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The rocks stored up sun
For so long, and so long;
In their rocky hearts
Since time’s begun.
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Life is the sure bondage of mortuaries,
Weeping in the still living flesh.
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Words the coin that I get paid;
No creature comforts save the day,
Just words, to journey through the brain-
And that I ride, my worthy train.
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Clouds forest the vision
On a road, with a hidden gate,
And I notice someone’s entered;
But to come here, seems my fate.
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Sing the world into being,
Sing the world into song;
Include all the wonder you're seeing,
To coax the notes along.
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Everything bears the future,
Containing an unwrapped box,
Fused with the luminescence;
Charted voyages, in a silver box.
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To fire and dust, ran my Father’s veins-
His sudden tempers, fast to wain,
Considered judgments, swift but sure;
Against stray pathos, well immured.
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The parenthetical parrot
Went for a cruise at sea,
Where he ate a rotten carrot
(Cause they said that they were free)
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Papyrus kiss, left by a Pharaoh,
Once-beating heart, left in an urn;
Blushing cheek'd parcel of maiden,
Who once for a mighty ruler, burned.
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