Three Poems by Scott C. Kaestner

 

THE RHYTHM OF INCANDESCENCE

Staring at the campfire
he saw an image
therein.

A figure that appeared
to be dancing
in celebration.

Swaying to a beat
the rhythm of
incandescence.

He wasn’t quite sure if
it was real or just
the magic mushrooms.

Regardless life is both
a celebration and
a hallucination.

That’s poetry he thought
finding signs of life
in the fire.

Seeing the unseen
celebrating and
hallucinating.



WONDER

Often wonder why people don’t
spend more time wondering

our world is full of wonder
the seas, mountains, deserts
fields full of wonder

wonder everywhere I look
wonder in everything I see
wonderful people doing
wonderful things
wonder in the eyes of a child

wonderful tastes
wonderful sounds
wonderful feelings
words full of wondrous ideas

upon a planet drenched in wonder
wondering is the means
to a wonderful life.



NUCLEAR CODES

Ego
inevitably
destroys everything
it comes into contact with.

No
thing
really matters
when everything does.


Scott C. Kaestner is a Los Angeles poet, writer, dad, husband, and man who knows enough to know he doesn’t know much at all. Google ‘scott kaestner poetry’ to peruse his musings and doings.