Lines of Licorice

By Charles Kaye

LINES OF LICORICE is an allsorts book of poems, many of which have been typed on my iPhone, or even scribbled on napkins and scraps of paper. I never intended to write poetry, but once I started to meditate these word arrangements just poured forth. Later, I learnt it's like a tap that I can turn on and off. However, sometimes the tap drips during the wee hours. And all hours. Poetry is a constant companion, a passion, a succour.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Aug 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098313289

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© 2020 Charles Kaye

ISBN: 978-1-09831-327-2 (print)

ISBN: 978-1-09831-328-9 (ebook)

All rights reserved.

For Aleksa and Granny

Table of Contents

Post

Gratis

Poetizing

Ballad of being Canadian children

Pain as a path

Shifting seasons

North and South

Camels in the shade

In-sight

Home Alone

E-nergy

Beauty before

The persistence of measurement

Breath-ing

String practice

Land of?

Eyes Closed

Forest fest

Salutation?

In Praise Of

Tempus

Taking That Shape

Winding way

Survey by night

Water fondue

Juice for Jose

Simultaneity

Cereal and Milk

Winter’s land

Peerless

The road by the road

Dinner

Practice

Causes, colours

Untitled

Christ Re-mastered

Canon in the afternoon

Roots Rising and Falling

More than a condiment

Yogi

Post

These poems come,

postcards from you to yourself.

There’s an intimacy in it and from it,

and you realize, deep within yourself,

that separation is the falsehood, the myth, the fantasy.

Gratis

We have forgotten that words are just sounds.

Angular sounds, mellifluous sounds.

Soft sounds, harsh sounds;

But, nonetheless, sounds.

In the beginning was Sound.

(What mind was