Poems - JP Melville

Sorry: When A Man’s His Dog & Dawn 5 May 2020 jp All’s well with the world when a man’s his dog and dawn Waking at his bedside A garden to tend Obliged to listen to the tac-tac-tac-tac of pileated woodpecker. So sorry for the suffering arising I’ve caused When I reach out to love My touch a poisoned compassion. So sorry. So sorry, so many times I’ve begun to forget. Funny how, still… All’s well with the world when a man’s his dog and dawn Waking at his bedside.

Prayer 2001 - Imishli, Azerbaijan jp melville unknowable, infinite humble, compassionate love Of all emotions, thought, Anger, desire, happiness, envy, melancholy, or more Logic, madness, memory, or more Nothing but what is unknown Nothing but what is infinite Is absolute, Which is the philosophy of mathematics, or physics, The only reason, the only truth Of any science. Only the unknown and the infinite give perspective To what we feel To what we see To what we believe, By balancing what we experience With the knowledge that our experience is not absolute, With knowing that there is always something more, That for every step we take The next is unimaginable, Always one small step beyond consciousness. Patience, The effort to understand And watch the ugly unfold as beautiful, Allow that which differs from us gain respect, Or to unfetter complexity and free the simple to blossom into wonder....