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 whose art, prose, essay's, and poetic work have been published in numerous anthologies, e-zines, and compendiums; including 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
One Note …
I interpreted the heavens today
As a cache of infinite musical notes.
Suspended in random fashion, I viewed
The stars through a transparency etched
With the five lines of a musical staff.
Moving the sheet across the sky, I was
Perfectly beguiled when the stars became
Notes stacked in harmonies of minor fifths
And sevenths - semitones and microtones -
A wash of minuet […]
E’er and Evermore …
Resolving to avoid every
Fine-spun nuance of human
Pretense; I spoke with the winds
Today and asked if the miracle I
Had discovered IN YOU - such torrid
Brush strokes dividing the light and the
Dreary - might remain the hot ember
Now burning brightly IN ME
Extending its
Warmth and light as
Aliment and inspiration;
Wisdom encouraged me to
Avoid the vast discolorations of
Thoughtless indiscretion and
Hinted […]
Impasse’
(A satiric analogy about literary egoism)
“I have groped across this muddle long enough!
It has become quite onerous, and there are far too
Many aspirants digging wells in salt mines looking
For diamonds - wannabes slobbering with hilarity
After discovering that “screw you too” is a rhyme.”
“Didn’t mommy ever tell you that you were boring
And pedantic
And arrogant
And conceited
And condescending […]
Therapy Session …
“John, you look really angry today; what’s on
your mind?”
“Oh Doctor … I feel so maligned. People make
fun of me behind my back. They don’t understand
me … they don’t understand how I suffer. I feel so
alone in this world.”
“I see … has this been going on long?
“About two years now.”
“Do you remember the circumstances in your
life […]
Breathless …
BREATHLESS
In that moment between heartbeats,
When life hesitates, and hoping becomes
An illusion of fulfillment, you appeared as
A lucent mist smiling with extended hands.
Lamenting though, as I was, an epigonic misfit,
Confused, striving, briefly, in so many words,
To shift the eminence of illusory judgment
Across eons of possibilities - you took the time
To transilluminate those things hidden in me,
Those […]
Beyond Understanding
Beyond understanding, in
Theatres of hardihood and hope,
Where ideating YOU in warm
Glowing candles, reclining nude
Along threadbare silhouettes,
Became a raging obsession,
Eye, the willing potter, with
Yearning hands, determined
To enshrine what makes
YOU
YOU,
ME,
A warrior with his sword,
Hoping to transcend the fetters
Of reason and fear to espouse verdant
Fields of cumbered fragrances where
Colors coalesce […]
