Improvisation 09 26 2014 <br />Original 03 03 2011 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />OVERTURE TO LIFE GHOST: <br /> <br /> <br />Overture: the garden full <br />Has eaten a ‘conscience' <br />Stream into thought in green <br />Rain condescends to color <br />Peaks to form rainbows <br />People come to see them and <br />Ask foolishly - when <br />Will temperament springs creep <br />Rooting eternally unseen and <br />Unheard -the two interceding <br />The kingdom will not fall <br />From colors known to sound as <br />Unfamiliar inner spirit needs... <br />A primate never looks up <br />But within -primates need <br />The intercept life: A bed on <br />Which to lay to meditate <br />The length of spring <br />Word forms in true satisfaction <br />Leaving none inside the rainbows <br />And nothing in the conscience <br />Word re-represents more truth <br />True song begins and ends <br />Inside gardens full of old and <br />New testaments - life longwise <br />Smothered colors discovered <br />Begin to lose the green to <br />Turn true to brown -colors of <br />The rainbow are falling down <br />Winter made her bed and slept <br />Gardens died to look ‘unkept' <br />Life goes on as colored streaks <br />Ghosts: does a sugar mill leave <br />A sweet in the ground <br />Deaths: sweat dries to salt <br />It is all bled from the soul <br />To slaves dug up from ore of <br />Ancient gardens -a fermenting <br />Spirit grows wild in the care <br />Of check points and zoo keepers <br />These are not the better angels <br />The better angels are ghosts <br />Seen like rainbows and <br />Colors we understand. <br /> <br /> <br />Lee Mack copyright 2009. ISBN # 0615318347. Do not reproduce without permission. <br />Lee B. Mack Submitted: March 04,2011; Edited: March 04,2011.<br /><br />Lee Mack<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/overture-to-life-ghosts-xx-xxx-xx-improvisation-09-26-2014-xx-original-03-03-2011/
