Sos Song of Songs

By Michael D. O’Kelly

SYMMYSTS OF SYZYGY & SAVING OUR SPHERECIES
FROM MOM [A] MOM TO POP [A] POP TO SAVING OUR STORE
by an
‘Apo’kstrophes’
in concert with the Sounds of Silence the
SCREAMS OF SCIENCE & SUSTAINS OF SUSTAINABIITY
BEHOLD THE HOLDING OF OUR GROUND OF THE HELD
GAIA & ATLAS HUGGED
SPHERE AND SPECIES HOLDING EACH AS ONE
SACRALS OF SENTIENCE

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664126596

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Copyright © 2020 by Michael D. O’Kelly.

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Rev. date: 09/09/2020

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CONTENTS

DEDICATION

PRIMARY LESSON

PROLOGUE

THE SYNTANGOION SYMBOL

!O FERRIED FAIRIES & GRACEIONS OF SYNTANGOIONS !

Oldest of Songs …In Newest Poet Dreams

SONGS

PRELUDE … Our Wakefast

The Breakfast Song

A Cappucccino on the Rocks

Childrunning

When the Lightning Cracks

Guess What?

Neverending Song

Moioke’s Song at the Pub of the Green Door

Song of the Balloon Man

Nothing Fancy

The Seasons Come And Go With You

ODES

BRIDGE … Belonging To The Choir

What Art Thou?

MUCK

A Sentence

Rake and Rumpus

An After Eden

An Ecosystem

Primitive Ritual

Garage Sale Counsel

Hindsight

Oh! Well! (Excerpt Altarpieces)

The Voice in the Wilderness (Excerpt Altarpieces)

Prophet’s Counsel To The Soul (Excerpt Sympathies)

The Reformation (Excerpt, Altarpieces)

Whatever it is

The Bottomline: The Art of Having a Period

O Soul! (From Auguries)

Sonnets

Chorus …I’m Your Free Spirit

Venture Capital

Rolling Over

Donor Secret

Natural Remedy

Mother Lines

Players

Peepers

Buddies

This Lottery

Friends

Each Day

EPILOGUE AS SEVEN GRACENOTES

[Grace Notes have a varied history of their origin and naming. Here, I note but the concept of the appoggiatura, which relates to notes of embellishment carrying a strong-seeming dissonance, used methodically (like a new thought /suddenness of insight) to be resolved into the principal harmonic theme/tone being played. Therefore, a-dissonance-other that’s resolved harmonically into consonance. The grace is the enhancing resolution of a ting into the sing of harmonic consonance. Indeed, so like a ping a tang. . . a sun spark flashing through the crest of the wave . . . dancing, gracefully, a five-step Tango!]

Striptease

Editing Room

An Ordinary Day

Come Home My Lovely Spring

Dreamers

Watch Out! It’s Time!

Proclamation

THREE SONGs OF CHRISTMAS

I Love the Way You Sing at Christmas

The Song of Christmas Cheer

Each and Every Year

CODA

A Blessing from On High

Suddenly

Shou-Lao

Finis De Trois

Onward Odyssean kairosions Voyage Blessing

IMAGES

ATLAS (FRONT COVER)

OWL (Passage Owl’s Epiphanic Tang)

SYNTANGOION

SOME FAIRIES AS GRACEIONS

APOLLO DANCING WITH THE NINE MUSES

OK CHORALE

MARBLES AND TAWS

ARIEL

GRACENOTES & VITRUVIAN MAN

TINY BELLS

SHOU-LAO

TALL SHIP AT SEA

DEDICATION

This SOS is dedicated to my children. My picture with them, 11/68 and 6/77, is on the back cover – and 2004, as the growing OK Chorale. With them in mind, at such a young-developing time, I’m moved to think of the new dedication to life required by children-families in this strange-challenging time of COVID-19 --- with all its masks, social distancing, store/business failures, holds on education, quarantines, health emergencies, and worldwide deaths/contagions played-out daily at everyone’s front door. Today’s children – being in the grip of global economies and tech-internet WWW connections – are developing a different mind-set out of this presence of pathogens and calls for new protocols for human life to thrive. They will grow-up with first-hand knowledge of the Muse of Mortality, Poetries on Purpose, and the sciences of Saving our Spherecies. I’ve created the word SPHERECIES to emphasize the fusion of sphere and species. Of course, this encompasses all species on this sphere. Behold the covenantal HUG of Earth and Eartharians: bees and beauty. Humanity is at a critical juncture of transitioning to a truly global – earthen-human – directed existence. The Screams Of Science – heard as never before. SOS!

We may or may not be alone in the universe – but we are on our own. We must take care of our home. Today’s children will learn Home Economics on an ethical-globally-scientific scale. Hugmanity! Protocol: Protect/Progress our Promise. Mortality leads to Morality, and to Purpose and new songs. New protocols/poetries birthing to renewed purpose: Bees Our Breath! Water Our Wisdom. WOW!! You listening – BOB? – Save Our Ship! Ssve Our Stores! Save Our Singing! HAPE HOME – Home Address Planet Earth – Humanity’s Own Mother Earth. Teachers will have to teach the wonders/challenges of this global environ-bio-inter-tech-community. Today’s children will have to learn it, as they become its practitioners/sustainers/innovators. Some years ago, I wrote a sonnet titled PRIMARY LESSON. I believe it holds its own here. I’ll set it at the beginning of this collection since we are all back in school, hoping for -- expecting/loving – such teachers of our world – wherein, for sure, we must learn how to keep teaching/reaching our own inner child.

As in all three books of this collection – MOM – POP – SOS – all the cover and internal images – are of my own creation/possession, except, here, the free internet images of ATLAS and Ship at Sea; that of Shou-Lao, from page 68 – Encyclopedia of World Mythology, Galahad Books, NYNY- 1975 by Mandarin Publishers, Hong Kong. Apollo and Muses dancing