Winter in Latium

Once I likened us to snowdrifts
Built against life’s magic winter rivers
Then we phoned one
Another and
The metaphor got clearer
I may be a smattering of snow
Held together by
The infinitely serendipitous fortune;
The winds and shifts
Move me freely,
As fits my passions,
But you are grand and imperious.
In that winter
You are a hawk
Fury of feathers afire
Upon a mouse
Limply unnerved.
Cato the Elder
Trampling through a
Snowdrift
En route to the Senate
“Carthago delenda est”
Next summer in Carthage
I was the water that watched
A city burn
I am as I was: poetic, passionate, fluid.
You Vesuvius filled me with ash

Hi everybody

Okay, so this is my first full-on foray into the world of blogging, so I guess I should let you (the reader) know what to expect. I've been involved briefly in other blogs, but never really had a place of my own to do what I want to do. By now, I'm sure you're wondering what that is so I'll tell you: poetry. For the most part I'll be posting my own poetry, but I'll also occasionally highlight some of my personal favorites, as well as deal with the process of writing in general. Since this is my blog, I'll probably even make comments on things in the world which I find interesting (which is probably not going to happen often as I very rarely watch or read news of nearly any kind). I know that this seems like more of an about me type post, and I could totally see that line of thinking, but I really did it for my own sake, sort of as a way to ease into things. However, since this is going to be a poetry blog, here's a poem of mine:

And death, the quiet unassuming

Member of your cadre

Speaks only when spoken to

Needs not worry about his place

For all of you keep him close by fear

You need not fear him

You are immortal

And were you not

It would still be foolish

For you don’t see that death

Is life’s perfect translucent reflection

Therefore it is just as infinite

As robust, as wild, as impossible

As brilliant across the stars

As alimentive, as restorative, as necessary

As you