New Poetry by Ivan Jenson

Totality

Not having the faintest

idea how my brain and

body function

standing in wonder

at the wonderful

wonder of nature

awestruck by

the promise of

a hereafter

which might come after

and confounded

by the metro system

under

the metropolis

transfixed by

the tongue-tied

triumph which is

language

freaked out

by the farfetched

fantasies of

authors, actors

singers and

those who turn

heartbeat

into drum beat

and who ride

airwaves like

sonic songwriter

surfers

overwelmed

by the billion

baby march

and the

trillion tragic

obituaries

and outnumbered

in every way

by a galaxy of

stars and population

explosion

of sights and sounds

and technological

sorcerers transforming

everything into fairy-tale pixels

I stop for a moment

in prayer, meditation

gratitude and fear

inhale, exhale

then put one

foot in front of the other

and walk

- Ivan Jenson 2012

Ivan Jenson’s Absolut Jenson painting was featured in Art News, Art in America, and Interview magazine. His art has sold at Christie’s, New York. His poems have appeared in Word Riot, Zygote in my Coffee, Camroc Press Review, Haggard and Halo,Poetry Super Highway, Mad Swirl, Alternative Reel Poets Corner, Underground Voices Magazine, Blazevox, and many other magazines, online and in print. Jenson is also a Contributing Editor for Commonline magazine. Ivan Jenson's debut novel Dead Artist is available as a paperback and on Amazon Kindle and Nook. His new novel a psychological thriller entitled Seeing Soriah is now available as an eBook or in Paperback on Amazon.