The day is still, this still day
This still, quiet, overcast, near drizzling day
It doesn’t feel like late summer, nor early fall
Just a pause, a cessation in turmoil
Chaos suspended, quiet, all day quiet, striking quiet in my life
Relief I can’t fully breathe in
I heard children playing outside, today
I drove through the overcast, quiet day, running errands
Swedish Crepes at IHop, a new SIM card for my iPhone
I don’t feel the season, but endure the heat
My apartment is hard to sit in with but a floor fan
It appears they evicted the gang from my condo complex
There is plywood behind the shut-up sliding glass balcony door, windows
I don’t see that guy who threw things and hollered obscenities all night
Hip-hop blaring from his apartment at 3AM, now boarded up
The Asian family next my apartment must have moved in with relatives
We parked on the street since he broke into Hans’ Dakota pickup, twice
I don’t know if I can recover to the way things were
Not after all that, the way things had been, the way things are
Though not for me, now, but for someone, the police
I don’t know what to do with this quiet
STILL, QUIET DAY
03 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: chaos, crime, fall, gangs, hip-hop, poem, poetry, police, quiet, relief, summer
STANZAS
30 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in Blog Tags: Beethoven, criticism, feeling, hip-hop, poetry, verse
When feeling forms words into verse
Maybe sublime, poignant, punching powerful emotion, sad or happy, joy;–melancholy
It is a gamble
That the feeling reads through
That others would resonate or care about that feeling, want simpatico
It’s safer to arrange pretty words
In complex sequences ideation of symbols
To catch the eye on language games
The leaf of paper ink form word, language
In a hip-hop world
‘40’s music still sings to heartstrings
Beethoven yet storms and rages
In our world of facile rhyme and rhythm
Outmoded forms communicate despite form
With and through form
And contemporaneity’s distracting noise
Nor a suicidal retirement into the lost past
Then there’s just how you feel
And if it can find its way into
Song, music, rhythm, rhyme, word
That verse would mean something someone
Hears, reads, resonates, harmonizes
David Fekete 