Maui Scribe Quarterly

Poetry

by Carrll Robilotta

When Everything Seems...Write!

Ahh...deepest, darkest

quiet night

whence thoughts take wings

like birds of flight

Restless soul

on over-time

like a shot of straight tequila

without the wedge of lime

A gap of years

between the pages

A barren desert

with no oasis

Then suddenly,

unceremoniously...

I'm back again

like a Tibetan monk

in a state of Zen

~ Carrll Robilotta

June 2002

Island of Maui

Forever Jung (a poem inspired by the theorems

                         of the illustrious doctor)

Whenceforth cometh

this odd & puzzling thought

provoking answers heretofore

found previously not

The duality of life

floating through a waking dream

You whisper oh-so-softly

yet i hear a scream

A tear-drop falls

without uttering a sound

A violent earthquake

shakes us around

The yin & the yang,

the ebb & the flow

As the world around me

seems forever to shrink

my fascination for it

proportionately grows

~ Carrll Robilotta

August '06

Island of Maui

Man In The Mirror

Staring at the space

where the mirror used to be

hanging on the wall

with a man resembling me

Shattered into pieces

by a strange phenomenon

i stand staring at the space

even tho' the man is gone

'til suddenly, i realize

he was never really there

and walk away with feelings

of ineffable despair

~ Carrll Robilotta - circa '87

Island of Montserrat