Have You Had Your Dark Nights ~ a plein air, plein peur, plein noir et lumiere poem

Have You Had Your Dark Nights


Of the soul.

Cave-dark,

bat-dark nights.

Times and places

of raw and

nameless,

sometimes

name-plated

fear; sheer, 

cliff-faced

anxiety. 

Fear of falling

into an abyss; 

into a maw:

swallowed

whole

into the belly

of a fierce,

unknown

beast.

And, despite

each starless

passage, 

each imagined

stroke of fate,

miscarriage

of your fortunes,

somehow,

somehow,

however barely,

unforseeably,

making it through ~

to the light

and the heart

of day; 

limbs intact.

Onto solid ground.

To the forgotten

safety of faith

~ in self,

and the never-

vanished bounty

shining away, 

inside and

all around you.


 

Colin Goedecke

August 2018
 

Declaring Your Independence ~ a plein air poem on the Country's Independence Day ~ July 4th

Declaring Your Independence

                                     on the Country’s Independence Day

On this day when we mark

with fireworks and picnics

the Country becoming 

wholly self-governing,

maybe it’s a day, 

an opportunity

to affirm or assent, ascend to 

our own free-handedness,

our fullest independence ~

of thought, of action;

of way of living, being 

in the world. The right

to freely choose our own way,

to naturally express 

our own feelings

among our own people,

all people.

Without fanfare, or fear  

of their histrionics,

censorings or polemics.

Maybe declaring this 

Self-rule; giving up

beholdenness ~ to

anything or anyone that

keeps us from growing,

keeps us from rising.

Including allegiance

to old beliefs,  

unserving loyalties 

~ and giving ourselves

these vital, radial liberties,

takes equal braveness ~ 

and even greater 

precedence.

Colin Goedecke

Morristown, New Jersey

July 4th, 2018

Bring Yourself to This Day ~ a plein air poem for the Summer Solstice

Bring Yourself to This Day

                                     for the Summer Solstice
 

This Solstice Day,

re-generous day.

Of new Summering,

good Naturing.

The sun so greatly

lengthening. 

The trees

so freely dancing,

in ever deeper,

ever greener ecstasies.

The clouds caressing

the open skies, 

and dotting the eyes

of sailors

and mountaineers,

painters and

sonneteers. 

The waters of lakes

and rivers, firths

and fjords, bays

and sounds, clear 

and mirroring.

Bring yourself,

your whole nature,

bodifully, 

spiritly ~

as bountifully,

to this day

of balance and

beauty,

dalliance

and euphony

between

the boundless

heavens and the

re-turning earth; 

with a lightening

heart and long,

lengthening breath.


 

Colin Goedecke

Morristown, New Jersey

June 21st, 2018

Let There Be Lightness ~ a plein air poem for the Winter Solstice

Let There Be Lightness

                                      at the winter solstice

To dispel all darkness,

all heaviness.

Let there be waxing,

toward all things

lightening,

all things humanizing.

Let the world turn back

to itself anew;

the stopping sun

return back aglow;

hope burn hot

and bright

in eager hearts.

Let us, as Nature’s

creations, remember

its sacredness,

and bring to life

and each other

the great sparks of soul

that shoot and shimmer

within our earthliness.

Colin Goedecke

at The Loantaka Brook

Morristown, New Jersey

December 21st, 2016 

continue the (r)evolution ~ a plein air poem for our human species, our humankind

continue the (r)evolution

and (re)cognition, from

Homo habilis.

Able man

to

Homo erectus.

Standing man

to

Homo sapiens.

Knowing man

to truer, maybe sooner

inner glowing,

outer flowing

Homo animas.

Soul man.

Colin Goedecke

Convent Station, New Jersey

July, 2016