'ich habe genug – it is enough!'

'ich habe genug – it is enough!'** timothy r gates, 4/30/2009

spring's demise,
summer
summer's allure,
winter
fall's amorousness,
repose
winter's hymn
recline
ich habe genug!
tears bottled,
we cry out,
'how long!, oh lord, how long?'
uncorked,
we smother our faces
baptized
in ours, and
theirs –
it is enough!
its end, not nearer, but
happy dirges sung
in the bleak reprisal,
refrain of a faint
giggle:
endearment:
ours.

**ich habe genug – it is enough!; Bach;Op. 82, still my favorite of pieces, near or far in time's
writing and composing, i come back too so often in my mind's eye, a near second are, yes
more than one in this near second, Langston Hughes 'Bee-bop Jazz' and 'Suicide's Note,'
Walt Whitman's 'From Pent up aching rivers,' Jack Gilbert's 'Great Fires' collection of Poetry,
then everything by F Dostoevsky, and to me the most lovely of all Romantics Anna Akhmatova.