the photograph

words and images reign

my thoughts

dictating disorder out

to establish the couch

for more sun shine

deep within my heart

during this regime

on the roadsides  

i see much rain

puddles, my poems

reflecting for eyes, ready

to see the neighbourhood

henry victor          16.12.2018

night dreams

my mind is omnipresent god

neither sleeping, nor slumbering

not even in the coldest night

painting dreams, thinking thought

and constructing poems

forever with vivid images

simple symbols and newer metaphors

rooted in my cultural existence

© henry victor     29.10.2011

living styles

living is, from others, much stealing

continuously, freely, gulping

as a mosquito sucking the blood

from a self that has labored so hard

greater living is also stealing

constantly, on beautiful, buzzing

as the bee sucking the sweet honey

while, also carrying the pollen to serve

greatest living is letting to steal

continually giving all to all

like the mother earth holding not back

for self, or looking for some return

© henry victor     03.07.2003

Kim Sung Ling

i am that Kim Sung Ling

and when i have none to sing

i’ll either walk along the long bridge

or climb and sit on my old fridge

that i may breathe some fresh air

or relax, dreaming my climbing a stair

picking up a strong clip

to tighten securely my lip

that i may speak nothing unfair

or drop, bricks of folly so rare

to the hearty delight

of those gathered in the twilight

to hear Kim Sung Ling

prompting them also to sing

© henry victor     20.11.2003

poet’s meaning

it is necessary not only to see

what the poet said

but also

what the poet meant

© henry victor     20.04.2016