from Longfellow Memoranda
by Geof Huth
April
92/274
light & air
hardened to wood
forest cleaved open
by sun
93/273
oft wayward
he dwells
in dust & motes
of thought
94/272
the living springs
the living
springs
the living springs
95/271
a benison
o’er sleeping
a memory
under sleep
96/270
resolute
& resolute
again
ere long
97/269
man
manifold
like flowerets
& revelations
98/268
the gravid fruit
proceedeth
to rot
& ruin
99/267
restless heart
doth breathe
& stop
100/266
dark & dreary
words of weary
every poem
isn’t noem
101/265
thrill & being
world alive with
sun & water color
102/264
tongue
the Golden Mean
of every
unthought thought
103/263
the quiet spirit dwells & drills
104/262
the throng!
the song!
the gong!
the long!
105/261
[wings,
feather flowers
buds just bursting
into flight
106/260
woodland dreams
brighter
than the shock
of waking
107/259
O twilight
betwixt
now &
them
108/258
gladness is
sadness’s
madness
109/257
gladness
to hadness
the twitch
continues
110/256
slumber
lumbers
not awake
neither waiting for a wake
111/255
shadowy dream
r’m’m’b’r’d
less
than felt
112/254
Nature
doth create
Love
doth satiate
113/253
the heav’n of April
splend’rous
buds to
blossoms
114/252
green flowers
& leaves
the poetry
of plants
115/251
without that
which I will
to you
116/250
take her to
with all her
he whom neither
of his
117/249
one hymn
the songstress
asunder
by music
118/248
every every
too too
119/247
turn wheel
& care &
age & pause
away
120/246
homeward
meadows
woodlands bound with shadow
121/245
above all roofs
an evening star
straightening out
the sky
Geof Huth is an American who has lived on most continents on earth (but not Australia). Over the years, he has created visual and other poems in a wide variety of formats: lineated verse, prose, paintings, drawings and films. He has been published in venues as diverse as The American Poetry Review, Dreams and Nightmares, Kalligram, Lost and Found Times, Modern Haiku, La Poire D'Angoisse, Prakalpana Literature, ZYX, and even atop bandaids. His latest books are Out of Character (a series of visual poems), Longfellow Memoranda (a book of 366 short poems based on the poetry of Longfellow), and texistence (a book of 300 pwoermds co-written with mIEKAL aND). He writes almost daily on visual poetry at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics.
