no answer but silence

Yolo County, California

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." 

Charles Simic

Up on the path, in the oak, crows make noises

That sound as if they are mocking me 

The way that unruly children sound mocking adults 

That’s just my own needy ego, I know that

Still, that one crow right above me 

Is clicking its beak over and over 

That might mean something 

When he notices that I am watching

He cawCawCAWS at me 

Is that an order

I’ll return tomorrow and I’ll wear a hat 

Just to be safe 

That way, should the crow return,

I will be in incognito

James Lee Jobe

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X

It has been over sixty years

Since I have seen that little boy

That I once knew 

The one who was abandoned by his father

In a bus station far from home

The one who cried out to Jesus

And found no answer but silence 

When I look in the mirror now

I see only an old man who looks sad 

But I know that boy is still in there

Somewhere

James Lee Jobe

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