Stephen Mead’s poem: Sparrow


Whose eye is on you there with the moon fading in morning's linen sky?

Does that new sun show the wiser through benevolent bushes

and higher electric lines?


Meanwhile loose newspaper pages blow by with mundane atrocity

so personal for the ones trapped by such ink.


Think instead of wings rustling & the alleluias of chirps busy with leaves.


What messages are in the nests, global with simple need

between survival and nurturance?

Imagine them lifting all at once to clouds & farther heavenly bodies

where our universe is dying, as some astronomers say, while new galaxies

expand.


Strive for mirth from those more learned than us.

Strive for paradise despite what fools mortal be

when some are good as earth angels

just attempting to make cheer at no cost to another

for maybe one hour a day or less.


Mercy, folly, could your neighbor be deliverance

with just a well-meant hello?


What other miracle is to be long beyond suffering

futures past if there is only silence, stillness & no,

not any eternal thing at all?


Resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations and allies predominantly before Stonewall, https://thestephenmeadchromamuseum.weebly.com/, Stephen Mead is a retiree whom, throughout all his pretty non-glamorous jobs still found time for writing poetry/essays and creating art.  Occasionally he even got paid for this. Currently he is trying to sell his 40-year backlog of unsold art before he pops his cogs.

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