richard cederberg
Richard Lloyd Cederberg is an award winning poet; nominated in 2007 for the Pushcart Prize. Richard is also a novelist, photographer, and digital artist. His art, prose, essay's, and poetic work have been published in numerous anthologies, e-zines, and compendiums; including Public Literature, Taborri Press, Poetry Life and Times, India's Taj Majal Review, and the Mississippi Crow Magazine. Richard is the creator of the popular 'Monumental Journey' series. His literary work received CST's 2006 Best New Adventure, Mystery, Historical Fiction literary award. Richard's novels have been likened to an amalgam of Jules Verne, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and C.S. Lewis. www.richardlcederberg.comVisit Author's Website
You Suffered More Than You Know … (poetic-prose)
Don’t think I was meddling because I
Saw more than the others. Everything about
You seemed transparent really, and each part
You thought was hidden appeared to me as
A book longing to be thumbed through-
What was I to do?
If you truly believed you were
Hiding your heart ~ you weren’t.
I didn’t purpose to see more than I had,
- Or [...]
A Predator That Flies Unfettered
ANALOGY
(Seeing humanity through the eyes of a Hawk)
Don’t be troubled, vox populi has little
Effect on my cognitive state. Especially
Those bitter words and opinions disgorged
By nosy parkers, tattletales, and rumormongers,
Meant to malign, belittle, slander, and just plain
irritate the recipient.
I have learned from experience to pursue only
What sustains life. And in so doing I can reciprocate
In like fashion to [...]
Contrary Souls
Sometimes it’s amazing what can transpire between people when they can bypass ego and really communicate
confluence
Love between two as it should be
Written in the Tanka form
5-7-5-7-7
Two Corner Windows …
Often in the evening
Her silhouette appeared
In the two corner windows.
From across the thoroughfare
Passionate strains of Debussy or
Rachmaninoff filtered down into
The street as the clarion of her ritual.
Bathed in the light of many candles;
She moved sylphlike, concupiscent
Brushstrokes exposing the soul of
Unrequited passions
At times I surrendered to her
Beguiling in an effort to wash
Away the emotional fetor [...]
You Suffered More Than You Know … (poetic-prose)
Don’t think I was meddling because I
Saw more than the others. Everything about
You seemed transparent really, and each part
You thought was hidden appeared to me as
A book longing to be thumbed through-
What was I to do?
If you truly believed you were
Hiding your heart ~ you weren’t.
I didn’t purpose to see more than I had,
- Or [...]
Tinctures of the Existential (poetic-prose)
They say,
Beyond equivocation,
That we are what we eat
(So to speak)
Or in other words,
What we embrace
And ingest spiritually,
Or mentally, or physically,
Defines what we become, and
How we feel about our fellow man,
And how we interrelate with the world
Around us on any given day,
And how we extract and
Express the verve
Within us
And since
My Byzantine self
Struggles with the baggage
Of bad [...]
Whaleshead
(A poetic tale written with a bit of Scottish parlance)
Have ye not known the tale of
The Whaleshead? A black awful time
It was – gripped by such a dread fright –
When a raging sea, wroth with hunger, stole
Near a hunner or two more a sad sorry souls
And sent um down, a-feared and a-shriekin,
To Davie Jones afore [...]
A Blanket Of White (poetic-prose)
Is it naïve to believe that beauty
Might last forever; that sapience
Could reign supreme; that life might
Blossom in gloriously unending colors?
LONGING for that special day to arrive -
IMPASSIONED when at last it does -
RHAPSODIC at times in our pursuits of the intangible …
Beguiled inexorably in times
Continuity; our lives ebb and flow to
Invisible forces around us, while [...]
Poets
Blindly
Touching the
Naked thorns of
Enigma,
POETS
Can be more
Can see more
Can feel more
Without deepening
The colors of the
Blossom;
Sipping the wines and vinegars
Of the least excruciated life – poets
Breathe newness while shedding
The pall of past pretensions;
And with reverence -
Touching souls with delicate
Acumen – poets sense inspiration
As an Eagle with out-stretched
Wings comprehends the
Heavens and moon;
Becoming one note,
Inapposite, swirling and twirling
To establish [...]
