Open Heart Poetry
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"Open Heart Poetry is iconoclastic poetry, written in a precise language that explores the intricacies of the emotions of love, friendship, and fatherhood, and ruminates on politics, history, music, and the mysteries of life. Each line in every poem explodes with an exact syntax and diction that grips the mind of the reader."
Ian C. Dawkins Moore
Ian C. Dawkins Moore was born under the sign of Aries in the year of the Tiger. He survived a British boarding school, the jock world of football hooliganism, hitch-hiking across the Sahara desert, and the two-tone culture of American racism. He is the published author of over 20 books, and he can still see the funny side of life- Be Well & Enjoy!
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Open Heart Poetry - Ian C. Dawkins Moore
Remembering Dreams
Just after Victory Answered
She is Kind to Trees
A Clear Spot
The Dictates of History
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Do You Know What it means to Be Free?
Blessed Patronage
I will survive.
I Love It
Mother Earth
Forget Yourself
The Soul’s Rot
After Shocks
The Happy Cuckold
About the Author
Other books by the Author
OPEN UP
The good old times – are gone. All times when old
are good. Great things have been and yet might be
greater still if mere mortals had the will
to play their tricks in a wider field.
(From Byron)
Morning Ride
It’s five-thirty in the morning and
orange in a purple sky, sprays
the approaching dawn air with the thrill of
a new day. The clanging light-sparkled Bus
hovers down the road as Francine and I
huddle around a bent bus pole tethered
to a newspaper rack full of bad news,
bad attitudes and potholes of dumb hope.
And as our fellow riders of this hour,
absorb us with smiling nods; their display
of civility brings out within me the
humanity missing from the play
of life on the scarred streets of Oakland.
At Broadway, I’m ready for new beginnings.
Grey Dreads of Dawn
Martha takes charge of the bus - open, warm,
friendly. Shuffling in at six-fifteen;
we’re thankful for the humanity
on display. But first, she exits to do
her set exercises – knee bends and arm
stretches that buoyant her mood and grace.
Other drivers had need to show and
exert their pride - pilots on the Trans-Bay
airway - cruising down into San Quentin
Village, where Miriam and the Reader
disembark, and we pick up the dude in
high school threads – sharp and coordinated.
Paul and I discuss the economy’s
deterioration ending daily
in pathos and impotent rage. He falls
asleep, I read, and the moon over Mount
Tamalpais looms through the rafters o
the serpentine Richmond Bridge. The Marin
lights sparkle as Reyna chats lovingly
into her cell phone, telling her daughter –
to wake up and get out into this world
and find her paradise! Sigmund meets me
at 19th street, and we share stories of
travels in West Africa. Far from home.
Franz Fanon, bundled up in a headscarf
recedes into the back of the bus with
wary eyes. The subdued quietness echoes
thru the cavernous space as we rumble
into life, careening out of the El
Cerrito de Norte bus terminal.
Along the way we pick up two super-
fine black women. Mysterious ladies of the night
whose charm and fragrance fire the passions of
intimacy. Such vibrant skin at dawn’s
awakening. But they, to retreat to
the back of the bus and radiate their
companionship throughout our traveling host.
Martha’s long grey dreads reach down her long, long
back. Her stewardship secures us with name
recognition and respect for us all.
we workers, who chase the dawn into San
Rafael - the sunshine colony of hope.
Morning Walk
Pink, golden sunlight reflects off misty
morning downtown buildings, monuments to
an encrusted patrimony. The Mayor
greets me - his scribe at his side -I’m lucky.
The smiles of my fellow walkers confirm
my expectancy of a brand-new day.
I’m here at last. I’ve come to this moment
of the NOW with simplicity and health.
I breathe in the scent from dew-covered grasses;
the contorted branches stand out bold in
the high azure sky fading from nighttime.
I celebrate with a broad smile my health
and blessings of happiness. This is my
time - this aliveness to the present hour!
Slapped By Summer
The spluttering haze of spring just vanished
in a burst of heat! Smothering the frayed
corners of our partitioned cages. Warped
by the heat wave's sweep, the blame game swung in-
to full motion, binding those who fear the
act of being wrong. Grilled by a hot-head –
red alert - the fear is in losing face
not in facing facts. The heat points fingers,
grasping for cool air which