Poems - JP Melville

I Struggle to Come to Right 2020 jp I struggle to come to right To confront and own Fears, force, passion To care about right things. A resilient life. Endure adversity. Wisdom in practice. Ambiguity and uncertainty. To journey home. To come to right.

We Do Not Heal Aug 28, 2019 jp   I do not heal my physical wounds Ni le médicin We patch What vanity… How on earth do we heal a soul?  

Love Body Rain Sun… Deny My God’s Compassion 2001 + today jp melville Love. Body. Rain. Sun. Sweat. Breasts. Poverty. Soul. Thought. Hunger. Wound. Sorrow. Kiss. Joy. Anger. Urge. Pain. Tears. Lips. Lust. Simplicity. For each of these and more description lies beyond infinity, Yet, still, I reach an outstretched hand, A fingertip, To touch, to wonder, to smile, to cry, To embrace these all, Then turn and weep resisting grace, In chest heaving stillness Deny my God’s compassion.

Three Embellishments in One Day jp melville I want to give you my love. Flowers. My love. Flowers. The day rushed, rushed, rushed until Across my naked desk Piled high with memos, notices, postings, requests The sun scattered golden delight in laughing splendour. Michelangelo Gave you David. Leonardo Gave you Mona. I give you With my breath Love.

I Took A Toast From God Who Said 18 May 2019 jp melville I took a toast from God who said I am no beginning nor an end All things upside down inside out I've no truck with morals Nor with sins Have your saviours Rules and laws Makes no difference to me But raise your cup and clink to love I am you you are we God who said.

Heaven 1990 and many times rewritten thereafter jp melville Cause I picked a flower in heaven one day Been walking down a road a long time now Still not seen no end I keep on walking along wishing to believe That I’ll wake in the morning again. Now come on baby reach across this endless sea Something they call eternity Hold out your hand take the light in your eyes There’s no distance in infinity. Crazy that I been learning all life long To be looking somewhere I’ll never be Crazy there’s something just a bit lonely To be searching for what I’ll never see. Somewhere I been looking for miracles Wondering far away outside Funny how I begin to find a few of them When I come to learn to look inside. Found a little seed hiding way down there Way down in the deepest dark And only when I let a little love inside Did the dark become heaven’s light. Now come on baby reach across this endless sea Somethin...

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....