Once, I swear, I heard voices
inside the buttressed tree-trunk of a mora tree
in a mora forest at Guayaguayare.
Sound as of a radio rooted
in sacred ground of forest floor.
Was it the tree-trunk talking,
playback of conversations taped,
in a long forgotten
language of a long forgotten
Taino chief or shaman?
Once a mora tree spoke,
in soliloquy, its mad monologue to me
in a mora forest at Guayaguayare.
Sadly, I was too shaken, too taken
aback to try to translate or conversate.
©2012 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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