Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Poetic Obituaries: [David Brian] Williams also was a noted poet,

actor and musician. He graduated from Horace Mann High School in 1975 in Gary, Ind.

from The Clarion-Ledger: Longtime Jackson city employee remembered

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Unreachable
(…tribute to fellow poet, David Brian Williams)

Silence pervades

Potomac passions

And strangers cast

Faces without smiles

Distinctively set

As stone

To the wind.


I am unreachable.


Seats of power

Sway right to left

From red to blue;

An acrostic truth

Emerges off-center after

Two winters returned from

Sandy shores and blazing sea.


I am unreachable.


Muses nurse nightmares

And entreat

Favorable and ill phantasms

In a nocturne strung

Until the end of time;

Heart is strong,

Love is a diligent pain.


I am unreachable.


A poet dies and earth is pleased to consume.

Winter warms to a soul whirling

In brand new shoes… and wings.

Holy day is a lowly day

To hear black bird songs,

And heal in solitude while foxes

Go on nightly runs.


I am unreachable


In ameliorated chambers

For a time simple love strolls in unknown;

Pasted away warriors

Haunt battlefields,

Tap the edge of night,

And carry love letters

Lipstick kissed and slightly burned.


I am unreachable


by marcus uganda white