Trapped Buddha by Cat Vibert. From Headless Buddha Series. Available in Art Store
Hidden in shadowsAnd tangled webs of light are
Stairways to heaven © 2010 Catherine Vibert
And tangled webs of light are
Stairways to heaven © 2010 Catherine Vibert
She wore two faces
Her hair, spun in liquid gold
Tangled in dream threads
Her hair, spun in liquid gold
Tangled in dream threads
Duality
Digitally altered watercolor
I stood at the sea,
Looking skyward at bridges,
Unfinished, empty
Looking skyward at bridges,
Unfinished, empty
No permit issued
To put supports in the sand,
They rusted away
Sand backfilled the holes,
Somehow this is a good thing,
A new day, fresh start
Strung above me now
An engineering wonder
Has started anew
How far must I dig
Beneath the unstable sands
To find bedrock?
How strong are the strands?
Cars might fall into the sea!
Paralyzing fears
Before I build it
I kneel down and pray to You,
Help me find the rock!
I see the city
Shining there across the sea,
And now I must build.
This Senryu cycle was inspired by a dream I had last night.
One day I argued
Culture isn’t dead at home!
Then you showed me this.
Happy Father’s day Pappy du bois
When Muses Laughed
A Cycle of Poems
1. Sonnet: The Invitation
What muse has touched the lash upon your eye?
What tender thoughts has she provoked within?
A deeper ocean there within resides,
Where muses bathe in waters warm as sin.
It’s there I saw a ghost of you swim by,
T’was just a glimpse, a play within a play,
I asked the muses then if they would lie?
And with a laugh, “Indeed we do!” said they.
With this, mistrusting everything alike,
As muses fraught with arrows leap and bound,
I’ll set the veil upon a pointy spike,
And utter hence to you in gentle sounds;
If whispered soft my pleas could warm your skin,
Let tender fingers touch where muses reign.
2. Limerick: The Answer
I sent a poor man a love sonnet
And let him set down there upon it.
He struggled for hours,
To say his not nowers,
For there on his head was a bonnet.
3. Senryu: The Resolve
Therein lies the cat,
Revealing the knead, a claw
Soft purring soothes heart
Notes on inspiration: a thank you to master sonnet writer Scott Ennis, (and let us not forget The Bard himself) for the tutelage on sonnet writing, to the memory of Dorothy Parker for the humor in cynical response, and to my cat, Marlow, with whom I am passionately in love.
