Poems - JP Melville

Small Things on Waiting for the Doctor That You Were Are Will Be Uniquely You Love Poem 26 July   2017 jp melville Observing from the outside looking in, Knowing I am on the inside looking out, I suspect that we the Other, those whom we do not know Always distant, external, objects to our kinship souls As a stranger in strange lands As a diner in a restaurant As a patient waiting in a hospital clinic All around my person people whom I will never really know. We pass in place and time, shared breathing space Purposes beyond divergent interests Gaps of a hand width between our bodies only measurable in astronomic time I will never know the person of the man, sleeping in his chair, sitting across from me Any more than I will know the hawker on the street below my apartment in Cotonou. Begs the question of whom do I know, Measured in time together, shared bodies sweating together in gentle rocking-coupling, Shared langu

A Smile Whisper jp melville i saw a smile whisper, for a moment in a smiling face to have known, in a few short breaths to have been loved honestly, to have been desired gently and when the whisper faded in the pounding rush of memories a different smile arrived in a saddened face

Dawn 2018-2020 jp melville I sit here in the night's dark chill Fear of loneliness, death's sweet thrill To oppose it to ease it I rock Back and forth to energies release, the clock Yet lives as ever before, ticking on As ever before, oblivious of The creeping dawn.

I the Fool I Breathe 2019 jp melville I  the fool. Waiting for the kiss to rinse away worry. Waking, to open my eyes and beside me is eternity, sleeping, hallowed in the morning's early light. Listening for laughter, a song wakening, to surge with joy, smiling. Thirsting for childhood’s innocence. Hungering to taste the forest’s earth scent mystery. Desiring wind sweeping grasses of open prairie. Lusting for woman, content, fecund, and full. This, I the fool, I breathe.

Clouds 2019 jp melville