War & Peace

Blue Landscape
Marc Chagall 

Is it normal to fear?

When you’re just over there -

so far away

in my living room.

It’s so tight inside this burden

It’s so light inside this tomb

You’re Hypocrisies

with skull in hand

How do we demand

Answers?

Not regrets!

With History

It’s a matter of fact

And chilling that

It’s so light inside this burden and

So tight inside this tomb 

And still I fare thee well

Day by day

Hour by hour

Second by second

Roaming

Combing

through each bittersweet moment

“You’re timeless”

You say…

Suburban Silence

Marc Chagall

In the suburban semi silence she sat

Half numb

Half trying

To remember

The sounds

Of something forgotten

Half forgotten

Just in reach

The pen

The pencil

And eraser

Of  time

Half remembered

Pity.

Or Grace

Its presence precious

as the day…

She recalls the water

Flowing wildly from rocks

Beginning and end

The laughter of friends.

And so the poet...

And so the poet has drifted
into hyperspace

The Village by Night
Marc Chagall