Today we have two illuminating poems, “Hi Again” and “Birthday Poem,” from David Tucker, the Poet Laureate of the Quantum Revolution.
A Vermont-based poet, David is an insightful commentator on our internal and external cultural, spiritual and political milieu.
Hi Again
When,
naked and empty,
I am delivered
from busy streets
into the quiet city of death,
I will cry,
I will be frightened
a little bit
the way I felt
when I was delivered
into this dark world
God,
I will need
your touch,
your breasts
in the city
where it is always light
your kisses
your love,
your songs
in those first long, bright nights,
in my new home
© December, 2011
Birthday Poem 2012
Somehow
with dancing feet
a fast tongue
and a quick smile
I have tricked death
out of so many many years.
Squatting on the cold tile of the kitchen floor
we roll the dice,
I jump up
and run away
to another year
of chasing God’s tail
through sweet fright
laughing nipples
and fountains of ecstasy in the House of the Moon.
Oh God
let us glide together
on the dance floor of this earth
(hair slicked back, cuffs rolled up)
a few more years
of Rock ‘n Roll.
I’m just beginning
to feel the moves.
I have poems to write
and women to love
Peace to proclaim
and candies of wisdom to hand out
in the park.
In these last twirls
around the floor,
(oh God the feel of your sweet breasts as we turn)
let our laughter and our song
fill the hearts and souls
of all our friends and enemies
who dance and stare
steal and kill
sleep and starve
love and die.
Come
Everyone,
let us take the hand of God
and Dance
Sing
till our souls
lay down their weapons
till our sex
runs weeping and dancing
into the House of the Moon.
©David Tucker 2012