Gitanjali, Song
Offerings, Rabindranath Tagore
Gift copy from the scientist Dr. Gobinda Sarkar, October 25,
2018, Rochester, Minnesota
Thou hast made me
endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again,
and fillest it ever with fresh life...At the immortal touch of thy hands my
little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
Rabindranath Tagore, from Song Offering #1
This manuscript dedicated to Gobinda, who sang the following
couplet for the camera:
I have no other desire
at all
except to sit at your
feet
At a book table in Steamed Cup Café, Rochester, Minnesota;
and
Also dedicated to:
Karen Bodeen, the beloved
on 50 years of Marriage
23 November 1968--23 November 2018
on 50 years of Marriage
23 November 1968--23 November 2018
A Response to the Songs
#1 So Many Distances
Another way home
Never quite arriving
Wind gone into Dakotas
Home and time
Both gone
Fled
*
#1 And still thou
pourest
Combines combining
Cotton wood river mirror
October doubloons.
#2 When thou
commandest
Sunshine on the pitch
Girls running without white ball
Soccer muse song rhyme
25-27 October 2018
#3 Sky to Sky Music
Your voice comes ringing
Two hands singing four hand bells
Bells in Song Hands delight
#4 All untruths be gone
Fish Bone with his hat
Fish Bone offers a song
Rain walk sliver quick
29 October 2018
#5 To sit by thy side
Two butterscotch chairs
All matter of else, away
SunGold radiance!
#6 This flower in thy service
Cup of blueberries
Honey-strawberry smoothie
Beloved's liquor
31 October 2018
#6 Last day end before
Butter and honey
On toasted French Bread, green tea
Filling out ballots
Jim Bodeen
1 November 2018
#7 Their jingling
drown thy whispers
But I insisted
My poems are my life-lie
They surrounded you
#8 Decked robes and
jewels
Memorial dress
Played out in half centuries
You the first one twice
1 November 2018
#9 O Fool, O Beggar
Come from the body
Desire begs Beloved's light
Sneeze Fool, sneeze
This is their party
It shall be a jubilee
Seven times seven
Poorest, lowliest and
lost
My mother's people
Where else to reach for but these
Generous with salt
3 November 2018
#11 Stand by Him in
toil
Gold leaves harvested
50 years loving-Karen
Count seven sabbaths
5 November 2018
#12 Time my journey takes
Fish Bone Mountain Man
Father Song Son Line Peak Trail
Walking I Am Window
4 November 2018
Jim Bodeen
LINKED SONGS IN TRAFFIC
On Tiger Mountain
Cannonball Adderley jam
Seventy five beats
*
#13 "FOOTSTEPS
FROM THE ROAD"
Not one vote counted
Red maple leaves out my door
Karen by my side
Jim Bodeen
6 November 2018
#14 This sky and the light
#14 This sky and the light
Yet unsung to here
Sun moves shadows north leaving
Boom Boom Doom Doom
Back to yesterday
44 degrees side light sun
Water trail sing step
Through gate light entry
Rusted iron minerals
Lone pine basalt trail
Perils of beauty
Cowiche Creek carves canyon
repeatedly poured
Fine grain lava rock
Step over barbed wire descent
Through gates of desire
7 November 2018
7 November 2018
#15 Commend me to say
Taco asada
Fernando's Mexican Food
Waiting for your call
8 November 2018
#16 My part at this
feast
Word obedient
Listening to honking geese
North of Goat Rocks
#17 Codes to bind me
fast
Geese in formation
Over development homes
They still know as theirs
Jim Bodeen
8 November 2018
*
#18 Clouds heap upon
clouds
Let something find you
Hotel with a swimming pool
Fall garden possum tracks
#19 Head bent low
vigil
Hoar frost fallen leaves
Blanket protecting Bonsai
Now things will get dark
Jim Bodeen
9 November 2018
9 November 2018
#20 My basket empty
Newspaper flutter
With beloved at my side
She clears her throat
#21 A thrill passing
through
Left-handed chopsticks
All my transgressions leave trail
Side light sun-breath cold
*
Frederick Douglass
Now he would be a writer
By my own table
Jim Bodeen
10 November 2018
11 November 2018
ANOTHER FREEDOM HAIKU
Relieve the oppressed
*
*
Search for last peanut
Police sitting rock bottles
Long basalt shadow
*
#22 Secret steps thou
walked
Live inside your head
Crescent moon outside Zillah
Dream stone-way awake
#23 This stormy night
love
Bang sticks on fence posts
Mercy quilts story bench banks
Red bamboo baskets
#25 Let me not flag
force
Indigenous Quince
Primitive indecision
Apple way or pear
14 November
#26 He had no harp in
his hands
Natural pectin
Insufficient in the Quince
Syrup on pancakes
14 November 2018
#27 A flicker of light
Fog, inverted air
Hunkered, cold, China green leaves
Han Shan's candled cave
#28 Debts large,
failures great
Scratched lines disappeared
Is detention warranted
To have the body
14-15 November 2018
#29 This weeping
dungeon
Membrillo cooling
Lady of the Lake show sails
Bosch, Fred Douglass
14 November 2018
ACCESS ROADS CUT OFF
Santa Anna winds
Fires from the Apocalypse
Sierra, Woolsey, Camp
ANOTHER FREEDOM HAIKU
IN WORDS OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
FOUND IN DAVID W. BLIGHT'S BIOGRAPHY
Relieve the oppressed
Bring no more vain oblations
Oh! be warned! be warned!
Jim Bodeen
15 November 2018
#30 My own little self
Eight cycles on bike
Sky break sun-bombed blossoms
Star river mail drop
#31 Who was it bound
you
After it all slowed
Building smaller dream prison
Didn't key iced cell
Jim Bodeen
15 November 2018
*
#32 Luck of the beloved
#31 Who was it bound you
Unrecognized in feathers
She appeared, be-mused, a treasure
Cold outrageous thread
Jim Bodeen
16 November 2018
#32 Luck of the beloved
Her muse speaking first
We're not taking your deal
Empty offer wail
16 November 2018
#33 We shall help you
in worship
Offering in song
Set us here beside the way
Colonial stones
#34 I name thee my all
Empty argument
Before thy constant bell tone
January gem
Jim Bodeen
17 November 2018
End of Part One
Jim Bodeen
25 October 2018--17 November 2018
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