Requiem To A White Owl

By Rufus Daigle

A book of love poems focused on he praise to the Goddess to the effervescent beauty of life with metaphors saturated not in just what man has created or labeled but with mine fantasies and creations of what existence means to me. The subliminal sanctity of my work is not blunt force trauma like rap or punk rock but the lines give you the message of evolution is revolution and symmetry of words can only be understood by the enlightened ones that can see beyond the prisms of the crusades the slavery ethic the semantics of the elite the wired minds of the masses. I blend not just the European embossed titles for planets but all cultures are entered into my work as all planets galaxies and even the ones I see that humans have distorted for purposes of greed. It's a spiritual embellishment of beauty I tell. Let it be known.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667827223

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Cover art by Rufus Daigle

Book design by Rufus Daigle

First Edition 2021

Type set in Lora.

Also by Rufus Daigle

Portrait of a Black Dallas

From the Wings of an Angel

The Mystic Sings

Felicia’s Prince Of The Morning Star (novel)

Dedicated to

Daria Sinichenko

Table of Contents

Foreword

REQUIEM TO A WHITE OWL

Linear Burdens

Olive Finches With Acupunture

The Lotus Bell Tent Dance

My Pearl of Melo

Pololu with Neena

Breathless

Last Night Was Beautiful

Visions Of You

The Return of Zhao Princess

The Yesterday of You

To Touch Your Spirit

One Evening With Pele

Pele In My Coffee

Peles’ Dimension

My lovely one

Foreword

By Kevin Field

The most beautiful things I’ve every discovered have been those which I had no intention of finding. It seems what is of greatest importance does not impose itself on you and what is unnecessary is always grasping for your attention. The best art is perfectly content in itself, as a flower blooming in the high canopy of a dense rainforest or a great heron standing in acres of silence, disturbed by the softest rustle in the grass. To arrive where we are not we must go by the way we know not.

What we say is the only source. Everything that we can see, the whole world, the entire universe was spoken into motion. It’s living poetry made for us to read.

In day to day life we use language. We string words together in complex patterns in order to convey our opinion, accomplish a task, or to express ourselves - and to great effect. The word is undoubtably the most powerful tool available to us. Civilizations are built and decay, regimes rise and fall, social movements accelerate and fade due to the conversations humanity has with itself. Immersed in a constant dialogue of pursuit, desire, and accomplishment it’s easy to forget that language is more than just a tool.

Words can be so much more than merely objects to exchange, they are windows, portals, vehicles to the sublime and unimaginably real. Language is not just a wall of concepts to observe, but the very doorway into our lives. When we pause in our ceaseless pursuits and truly listen, unclouded by reflection or any attempt to discover a meaning - we can finally come to recognize the WORD for what it is, the very breathe of life.

Rufus Daigle’s poetry is not just spectacularly colorful, rich with metaphors and immense in it’s subtlety - it has changed my relationship to language, in some sense hearing him speak was the beginning of my relationship with language itself.

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