Tom Courtney Poems

a daily moment
Two worlds now
Without and within
Without so without
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Life goes on
I’ve seen it all before
People come and people go
Perhaps I am more fortunate
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Hey Han
Know what happened today?
Yeh all over the news
Did you see the Nikkei?
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Interesting

Most poetry is fiction
not history
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I wander through
this solitary moment
time-drawn at the edges
burning in the middle
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In fifty years the university
from a quadrant of four founding structures
to this immense and complex sprawl
a true city within a city
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And then I realized
there are meanings with which I must deal
vapors floating over the vast basin
I rise late in the morning and face the sun
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I came to see you better
in those final days because
you are my mother and
it's hard to get that in
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What do you think of when you think
poetry?
What is the essence?
Is it the rhyme or is it the meter?
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All our consultations
in structured voices
the formulations of our ideas
and manifestations of yours and mine
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