Poem-A-Day: Compassion IV by Noelle Kocot

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Compassion IV by Noelle Kocot   The human realities of the living are now As close to me as my own--oh, see how Dusty that plant gets when you don't clean It! The rippling day is a fabulous lesson, My pants are too loose, and yet. Bon nuit, Mes chéries! All over the whole neighbor- Hood, your fluid legs move--you are all Permission and flounce, and your stockings Catch in the mere light. Perfection, wholeness Is what I see now in everyone I touch. That Day when two men came in from the stream, Wet, bothered, the windows were blackened, And the cats ran around. Rain came, but Also sunlight, and the years of hard living Dissolved. A blanket of verbs crosses the Threshold. Poetry, you are mine, and I will Go anywhere with you. A gap in the mind, A spangled street, my spine, perfectly erect now, Chooses these words, yet it as if I have no choice. Copyright © 2013 by Noelle Kocot. Used with permission of the author. About this Poem:   "The poem came out of the end of many years of personal suffering. What I found at the end was just love, love for others and love for God. The series I wrote called 'Compassion' is titled after John Coltrane's piece, 'Compassion.'" Noelle Kocot Poetry by Kocot The Bigger World   Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. April 1, 2013    Noelle Kocot is the author of  numerous collections of poems  including, The Bigger World  (Wave Books, 2011) and the  forthcoming Soul in Space  (Wave Books, 2013). She was   born and raised in Brooklyn,  New York and resides in New  Jersey. Related Poems Happily [excerpt] by Lyn Hejinian Talking to Patrizia by Kenneth Koch The Soul unto itself (683) by Emily Dickinson

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