Poems from Ian Mccleary
Poetry is important to my life because it gives me a way of saying things I never imagined were in me. My poems deal with all kinds of subjects, my attitude on today's culture, art, corporations, nature, etc. But these aren't the only things that I write about in my poetry. I don't have a favorite poet, but probably Michael McClure is the poet I have learned the most from, from his readings on YouTube.
With a likeness to the courtyard of the Japanese emperor
Trees looping over our heads. Chipping sparrows and black capped chickadees flying...
Their own happiness, their own pleasure
becomes the suffrage for freedom
With a capital I, Individual
Capital A, the artist
Capital N, the...
I have collected church pamphlets in the past
They sit wedged in between some of my books.
They have a seductiveness to me.
They are like a...
If you ever had bird guano splatter onto your work uniform, nature is calling for you, nature is calling you to life, to leave behind your...
Most politicians who scream for change
are a media spectacle a rusted horn
They buy into their fame and cash in
The only ones who can speak...