photo by karin partin


my inspiration is always music and men and God. all of my poems center on this subject matter in one way or another. i focus on the beautiful aspects of men and God and choose to side with them despite their faults.



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lilygillespiemorton

lily gillespie morton is a self taught poet and painter
currently living between new york city and cape cod, massachusetts.
the poems featured on this website are excerpts from a manuscript
titled “21 men and the isness of love.”


poems:

the poem as a man there is no man in this poem

my knowing light

new york poem -- i am the ghost
because he is the poet

my heartfelt profession --
a letter from the poet to the atheist

a prayer for policemen and firemen
soldiers and pedestrians

adam

sweet ray -- a platonic love poem for a married man
who took center stage one night at carnegie hall

the letter m

of the dragonfly

my light upon sometimes my lover

tell of a ghostman

the abstract graphic man

audio:

the letter m

tell of a ghostman

read by lily gillespie morton
with chris burleson (drums) and blake newman (bass)
gil aharon (producer)

video:

a prayer for policemen and firemen
soldiers and pedestrians

video by jorge colombo









© lily gillespie morton, 2007