October 2007
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Poems by Felino Soriano
USA



Vagabond's Vision #110

Romance culled sitting crowds,
standing room only lovers,
leaning on men women
whom shaped in gathering letters

from above formed nonfiction
long novels, mating ritualistic carvings
of à la mode actions,

naked undomesticated creatures,
unafraid of reflecting nakedness,
grouped in peculiar patterns among deadened
slightly scented dented groups of wilted
orchids.



Vagabond's Vision #111

Ancient rising, dying to be high ample heard,
shallow graves some walk within unaware,
air inhaled killing surrounding
manmade some deem current culture,
argumentative jousters circulate on highest hills
we pay to understand bloviating mannerisms
sometimes stuck to pseudo soothsaying lips,
tangled maxims relocate themselves
in the psyche of the uneducated
whom with dumb diligence,
follow with leading foreheads
rear end like rhinoceroses the intelligent,
non-idiosyncrasies wearing armor
of the enlightened.



Vagabond's Vision #112

Man dangled in circumstance(s) arranging binging breaths,
day onward march or walk,
any possible explanation of movement

surrounded by beauty: people, garden, sprinkling fountain
of meaning for wishers attached to pocket-protected
coins.

Man earthed right palm and attaching digits
into chino pocket unearthing
dingy copper coins from former
dirty registers' separated, splayed hands.

He flipped up circular monetary meaning
placing wish atop acrobatic piece of twirling
hope, landing atop the beneath landscape of
swimming possibilities.



Vagabond's Vision #93

Something colorful came from bland, expanded
simplistic journey, birthed before perhaps years,
multiple flowing seconds or
unnamable flashes prior to speaking tongues'
definite definition of this dreary occurrence.

The colorful pluralized, birds' full-fledged dominance of harmony—
parakeets, pigeons, parrots, bluebirds, redbirds, blackbirds,
smiling curves arcing where absence deceased among
cloud shapes burying monotony.

Reality traced with invisible finger an ability
to fathom fortune, flying where the bland without vision
misinterprets mysterious motions.



Vagabond's Vision #101

Sensitivities of vibrating dominoes,
their humorous before-falling
tricking gullible eyes,
pulled in by invisible
fishing wire, funnier still, as children
become engulfed by the addictive daily
additive named "laughter."

Almost psychotic slowed the motive,
tremors released believable breathing,
alive swaying in dangling dance.
Why? quivered in balancing perfection,
peaking ever high enough to damage dreams,
failing dreams of falling dotted faces.
Stated clearly kids could not wait
kicking dominoes down Barriers Bridge
creating chaos  crosswise on tiled floors
adult mirth sprung against
magnitude of muscular resetting
epithetic "dumb" dominoes.



Vagabond's Vision #118

Ghostly seagull took in a quick ascent off,
floating partial existence gliding another,
wind held its entirety, huge in the hand
of giant Dusk toward the intention of something else,
away, SE, a sail appeared, vertical feather from
unnamable brand of breathless creature,
undulating atop waves of turquoise acrobatics.

From the pier, merciful understanding,
below cries from sea lions, hunger caused descending
stares at hands empty: mine
clapped to drown-out in ambiance of water
cries of the swimming unfed.