Spirit Garden: Poems: Poems

By Joe Martin

On SPIRIT GARDEN:
In Spirit Garden, poet-scholar-playwright Joe Martin sings ecstatically of the One, the hidden integrity of opposites & the living mystery of existence. He not only fuses Sufi, Buddhist & Jewish paths in a troubadours transcendence both timeless & time-bound, his thirty poems share the page with Enrique Castanons haunting figures which shift foreground and background to meta-illustrate the gestalt of Martins vision.
Kirpal Gordon, author, Giant Steps Press blog
On FOREIGNERS:
"[An] absurdist mind grenade... Joe Martin's first novel paints this neo-European shadow landscape with panache a gifted American writer."
Richard Peabody, Editor, Gargoyle
On RUMIS MATHNAVI: A Stage Adaptation
Absolutely remarkable and memorable lifting the veils one after another. Lida Saeedian, co-translator of The Pocket Rumi
On PARABOLA: SHORTER FICTIONS
...through the tightly structured geometry of this metaphorically rich [work is a] recognition of the search we undertake to fi x a place for ourselves and try to make sense of a confusing, alienating and often combative world. Cheryl Pallant, High Performance

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469165752

Joe Martin

Been driving for 35 years on various conditioned roads. Howled off 22% grades, ice and snow, and one lane roads.

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SPIRIT GARDEN

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Poems

Art by Enrique Castanon

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Washington, DC

Copyright © 2012 by Joe Martin.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012902515

ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4691-6574-5

Softcover 978-1-4691-6573-8

Ebook 978-1-4691-6575-2

Images Copyright © 2012 by Enrique Castanon.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This book was printed in the United States of America.

Poems included here that are published elsewhere can be found at Peace and Pieces blog, and at: www.joemartin.us

Art by Enrique Castanon: www.castanonart.com

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CONTENTS

1. WAYWARD SPIRITS

Love Gets Lost

Protea

Tired Time

Four Eyes

The Visitor

Understanding

Cold Clown

Slut Rooster

Classified

A Statement

Not No Nothing

Being Broken Being Flow

The Watchman Of The Cave

2. PLAYERS AND PRAYERS

Hari Georgeson

The Jongleur

House Of Angles

House #2

Possession

Riding To The Heart

The Storefront

Two Trees

Lost You In The Night

Zadiks

The Wall And Lazarus

3. SPIRIT IN THE GLASS

Spirit Tavern

The Bell And The Fish

The Presence

Seeking That

Wind Song

Ya Noor

Figures: Enrique Castanon

For H. Kashani

. . . with the sole exception of my heart surely none heard that melody in the secret night.

Rabindranath Tagore

Formless Jewel

1. WAYWARD SPIRITS

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LOVE GETS LOST

Love makes mistakes

Like the man who writes a letter

When his beloved is stricken with a terminal disease

And he signs off with the name of the dying one

Instead of his own

Love makes mistakes

Like the man