Four Wonderful Poems by Joseph A. Farina

 

phonometrician

 

there will always be Satie

whenever the incandescent light

that man cannot live by

is replaced with a scented candle

whenever chardonnay or Beaujolais,

is decanted into two glasses

whenever there is desire for an autumn

parisienne night to set the mood

from the everyday mundane

to the sublime avantgarde

 

over caffeinated blues

 

the mourning doves

nesting in my neighbours

Italian cypress

serenade my morning ritual

with their morning aria

the scent of espresso

wafting up  in white curls

made brilliant by raking sunlight

 

the enveloping green outside

tints the backyard  air

perfumes in its early chill

the aroma of first hope

and whispers of warmth

a respite from the anger

a refuge from the deaths

of the world beyond my

boundaries

 

 

 

grain

 

wood shows its history

despite its vulnerability

each stain and nick

a testament to its journey

polished with a masters hand

it glows with an aura of

old forests

scented

with evening fires

infuses its notes to wine

speaks in tongues

that stag and boar

would understand

shelters and dreams

at its heart centre

waiting for carvers

to reveal its spirits

of sky, crow and eagle

in totems and soul masks

its song of creation

its unbending pride.

 

 

coda

 

under autumn's bleeding maples

brilliant in the surprising sun

leaves in quick thrusts of wind

sing their epilogue

Joseph A Farina is a retired lawyer in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Several of his poems have been published in  Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Ascent ,Subterranean  Blue  and in   The Tower Poetry Magazine, Inscribed, The Windsor Review, Boxcar Poetry Revue , and appears in the anthology   Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent , in the anthology  Witness  from Serengeti Press and Tamaracks: Canadian Poetry for the 21st Century . He has had poems published in the U.S. magazines   Mobius, Pyramid Arts, Arabesques, Fiele-Festa, Philedelphia Poets and   Memoir (and)   as well as in Silver Birch Press   “Me, at Seventeen”   Series. He has had two books of poetry published— The Cancer Chronicles   and   The Ghosts of Water Street .