POETRY andrew syor
 
Fading Away vented adventures from hardened participants of another time encounters evoked weapons of their age recalled fallen remembered forever preserved the horrors and the raptures delivered by war sharing sensations Warriors pause to reflect long ago conflicts feeling envious of others who continue this lasting poem Andy Syor Unending On a frigid dawn the Sun ascends in concert with mists from a lake one late winters’ scene prompting reawakening to understanding nature’s calendar solstice toward equinox bringing the seasons perpetually a continued happening for all that occurs Andy Syor Ah mindlessly observed seascape surrounding in the undistinguished now sights and sounds of an energetic melody routinely noticed as gulls dive and shriek crashing waves melt on the shore amid winds’ bluster devices absent a walking meditation away from worlds’ woes Andy Syor Shared Being Boundless horizons infinite destinations fleeting durations Global denizens commonality obliged sentient odysseys Vital energies perhaps chi possibly soul searching contentment Distinct voyages trenchantly investigate natural domain Amidst social melds persistent paradoxes summon reasoning Andy Syor Zen Apropos together began myself and this universe therein all is one lucid points of view shared with connected beings to the cosmic chi a sensed resonance opens entrance to inner enlightened domain focusing unsealed emotionless consciousness reaching nirvana whether kind or cruel in human predicament craving is the root Andy Syor Andrew “O.A.T.S.” Syor served as a United States Marine from 1965-69. Following discharge from the Corps, Andy moved to Canada, where he resides. Andy’s first book, Triptychs: A ‘Nam Marine’s Now and Then, is scheduled for release, Fall 2011, by MilSpeak Books. Triptychs, a study in stretch-haiku, flash memoir, and abstract photography, takes the reader on a narrow road to the interior of a Vietnam Veteran’s assimilation of his wartime experience. Henry Avignon’s abstract gestural photographs heighten the reading experience while setting each “panel” in the triptych form, similar to medieval altarpieces. Now, in the 21st century, each panel is composed of poetry, prose and photographs presented in electronic book format. The stretch-haiku pane, a new meditation in the ancient tradition of linked verse and haiku, represents Andrew’s reflective now. The flash memoir pane represents Andrew’s Vietnam War combat past. Each photograph created by military family member Henry represents the binder between poetry and prose, the thread that binds then and now to the present, the eternal and the transient, and all that stands between those who served and those watched from home.