About the Poetry

 

Obviously there are a lot of unposted poems in this series; some are too personal to me or my wife, some too badly written, and the entire first series just too easily recognized.

001 abdomen was a spontaneously written poem.

004 worried grew from a comment my wife made about how worried I always was about the living of love. My response was that when you have something to worry about, it can help strike the right balance and find the right direction for emotional growth.

008 no proof but cheekily suggests the proof of love is its making.

017 giving and getting: how making her happy makes me feel more ‘me’.

023 sworn: my response to that perennially poor idea of making a contract out of one’s love and marriage.

025 need was an attempt to explain to my wife why I like to make her happy, why I like her ‘push back’, why I like to participate in the process of her making herself happy.

026 math suggests if we just knew the facts about love without ever having learned them, we wouldn’t know love’s worth, wouldn’t attach to those facts the significant value that we do.

o28 human her is about why I love her passion and desire.

029 haiku 20100227 (warrior passion bound): I thought it ironic I could write these three haiku in one day, the first about the previous morning (and I think my favorite haiku posted here to date), the second about that morning, the third about that day’s end. It seemed evidence I had not been balancing my life lessons very well.

030 haiku 20100305 (she makes me bright cold): Three separate haiku (or perhaps not so separate since) I wrote (them all) in one day.

031 haiku 20100308 (seas and ships): The ‘sea’ affects you, ‘changes’ your interior mental space and framework to help you make sense of the ’sea’ around you. But of course affective ‘change’ goes both ways - the ’sea’ you’re in and the people around you will inevitably be affected by you and your interior space as well.

032 haiku 20100317 (existential scream): The way I don’t feel as if my passion, my primal (existential) sort of unmet need, is unmet anymore makes me think of the relationship garden hose.

033 crow friend -  …the ends of meaning’s axis have something each in common…

034 The Endless Battle: My life suddenly became quite hectic with many ‘real world’ demands – the world’s strings. I currently think this is both my favorite poem and my best effort.

035 haiku 20100510 (when I give): As life became more hectic I felt I needed ‘more me’ to go around – but couldn’t have less of her.

037 objective world teeth: I rather think the actual facts of objective reality’s nature are less important than the subjective, experiential, meaningful process of attempting to adequately and accurately ‘map’ objective reality via individual and aggregate human experience – despite how inevitably flawed such a map of an ultimately unknowable objective reality must actually be.