{"id":2758,"date":"2012-07-11T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2012-07-27T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T16:02:06","slug":"genesis-of-thoughts-and-other-poems-by-matthew-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/genesis-of-thoughts-and-other-poems-by-matthew-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis of Thoughts and Other Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

genesis of thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n

from whence doth spring the germ of an idea that either takes root,
\nexhibiting potential to live strong when just a tender vulnerable shoot?<\/p>\n

to search for source that gives rise per process to enable homo sapiens to think
\nthis ace of spades poet digs shallow sometimes forced to spelunk into crawl space
\nnarrow and shallow, or shine laser focus into a chasm while teetering on the brink
\nhunting down gamesome elusive dodging catlike whim elusively does out pace
\nyet ready with whorled wide net to capture alive this agile rat fink
\nwhich unseen quite as mouse notion gives this hardy fellow quite a chase
\nas if scurrying thru microcosmic burrow of manhattan skyscrapers at a blink
\nsaid quarry i.e. arising whim of mine likely to vanish without a trace
\njust as quick as mental cogs and wheels generated such riveting link
\nthat may be connected to any previous pondering within cranial place
\nor appear as some random non-sequitur conscious kink
\neasily distracting ability to latch onto awesome fleeting mind space
\ninducing minor frustration at lack of ability to nab (albeit painlessly) zinc
\nshimmering insight cognizant ability likened to ode to Grecian urn vase
\nfrieze depicting ever so close capture thought process lifespan short than a wink
\nvia the third eye blind of this comfortably numb beatle browed face.<\/p>\n

Bullied by Lloyd Levinsky circa mid-1960\u2019s<\/span><\/p>\n

among the countless thugs that teased and taunted myself as a boy
\nwho exhibited blatant characteristics of being painfully shy and coy<\/p>\n

regularly beckoned like some tasty morsel chronic unpleasant bait
\nto be pitted with words an always feeling like an outcast without a date
\npopulating school day memories of loathsomeness and hate.<\/p>\n

serving as the token punching bag nearly the duration every year
\nof public school, which vicious name calling assaults upon me psyche did wear
\naway and negligible self confidence or internal rage that found instinct to veer
\naway from approaching fist, which knuckle sandwich from tier
\nof hooligans gave no surcease to knock this introvert on his head or scrawny rear
\na lonely lad bereft of buddy to stand close as any bona a fide genuine peer
\nnothing but dark shadow casting silhouette per edge of night always near
\none brazen dude named Lloyd Levinsky hovered ever near
\nespecially during recess at Aububon Elementary School he did chase and lear
\nencouraging mob fiends to join in an additionally mock and jeer
\nwhich unprintable epithets, I can still faintly hear
\nin tandem with that native animal fear
\nthat found this then socially withdrawn second grader like a targeted deer
\ncaught in cross hairs of boys who seemed like giants and fierce some as a bear.<\/p>\n

cruel barbs hurled lent convenience to me who stood stock still or crouched down
\non ground intimating passivity and inferiority that brought grimace and frown
\nto those who mimicked flaws, which aside from being shriveled flower on lawn
\nincluded nasal twang from submucous cleft palate congenital defect that did spawn<\/p>\n

speech impediment and obvious magnet for brutal beast
\nto relish, savor and feast
\nhoping to bring me to tears at the least<\/p>\n

knowing this human docile scared dog would not fight back
\nfearing he might get beat to a bloody pulp for justifiably flack
\neven my late mother also told me to give brats a \u201cwhat for\u201d with two fisted pack
\nso as to stun that nasty gang who to this very day I bristle to smack
\nwith an ole mighty whack
\nas if strength within transferred from a mastodon or wooly mammoth yak!<\/p>\n

happy LXXXIII third birthday<\/span><\/p>\n

herewith comprises my poetic somewhat prevaricated ditty
\nabout the brooklyn boy who hankered to leave the city
\nwhen just an itty
\nbitty
\nwee lad, who roller skated streets of manhattan smooth and\/or gritty<\/p>\n

on at least one occasion knocked unconscious whence his mama took fright
\nespecially when falsely told her\u00a0 baby \u201cboycie\u201d\u00a0 – reckoned as extremely bright
\nhis soul took flight
\nassigned to afterlife, but premature pronouncement false alarm quite
\na relief\u00a0 (since I would not be here), and me future papa perfectly all right
\nnot the worse for wear his getting bunked in his noggin a slight
\nif negligible setback to his determination and inherent might
\nto gain inner strength rooted in fortitude to transcend most any plight<\/p>\n

whether drafted to help engineer mechanics of Korean war
\ndeployed during time when d\u00e9tente just a spore
\nafter Gatling guns of world war ii did roar
\nyet, once armistice reached reconstruction materiel did pore
\nfrom Americans as self proclaimed victor
\nsanctioned delivery of essential by welcome stevedore<\/p>\n

whereby united states troops welcomed back their towns with glee
\ngiven royal carpet treatment for many an unseen atrocity
\nthankfully though, my dada plotted away from front lines and thence free
\nfrom more serious battle scars blind to american civilians including she
\nwhom my father wed hence procreating three offspring, the sole son \u2013 me<\/p>\n

who now comfortably sits in a plush beige chair
\nglad to be the only male progeny who inherited intellect and flair
\nfrom smart as a whip and once more handsome that Richard Gere
\nthough no matter natural progression of aging and mortality near
\ntis an honor I affirmatively nod toward fickle finger of fate hear
\nthe boisterous damn the torpedoes credo compelled zayda to bear
\ndiscordant family of origin unpleasant air
\nand figuratively jumped ship from that brownstone lair
\nto witness ambitious indelibly etched when just a tot with curly black hair
\nhomage for he who scored home runs with help with unsheathed spear!<\/p>\n

from:: Matthew the king of Scotts from the Harris fruited genetic loom
\nwho acknowledges to this octogenarian once a handsome 6\u2019 + tall groom
\nhis love (not always demonstrated) kept within sacred private room.<\/p>\n

kaleidoscopic whorled wide web.<\/span><\/p>\n

against light source well crafted tubular structure appended with eyepiece gazing
\noffers viewer eye-opening, mindboggling instantaneously birthing then vanishing
\nresplendent myriad colorful geometric awesome shifting shapes hypnotizing
\nsight seer into a whirling gigolo where multifaceted fractals display pin-wheeling
\narithmetically perfect\u00a0 triangulate squarely with proportionate arcs astounding
\nwith blind faith on microscopic scale analogous to cosmic big bang spell-binding
\nmankind from time immemorial when her\/his gaze turned heavenward peering
\ninto the azure vault \u2013 one macrocosmic hint per the origin from when on-looking
\nproto-humans ruminated inscrutably enamored at the spectacular eminence grise
\nforever holding mystery of universe evolution in shroud of secret continually mystifying one
\ngeneration after another until twenty first century astro-physicists
\nbegin to unravel evolutionary tale writ small on planet earth yet storied tome
\npried open from scientific revolutions enabling birth of cosmos honed with more
\nfine tuned precision to zero in on precise second whence explosion filled void
\nwith nebulous material coalescing into rudimentary galactic masses generating
\nvast surfeit of globular structures evincing
\nconically swirling
\nmillennially futuristic clear cut entities
\nupon which one \u2013 namely gaia
\nfinds this sole member homo sapiens reveling in his makeshift primitive contrivance
\nteasing ocular sense with visual orgasms
\nbegetting thought provoking questions into this eternal wonderment
\nthat perchance some intelligent deity willfully rotates planet like some plaything
\nsynonymous with mere mortal peering into magic of kaleidoscope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

genesis of thoughts from whence doth spring the germ of an idea that either takes root, exhibiting potential to live strong when just a tender vulnerable shoot? to search for source that gives rise per process to enable homo sapiens to think this ace of spades poet digs shallow sometimes forced to spelunk into crawl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}