Wedding Wish
And even though you are a child of Fear be not a mother to Strife.
Let the weakling with the wheezing breath behind, stand tall as staggering Life!
Remember not solely the half of you that fills you with doubt and dread
Hold on to hope, a royal bequest, even though your Queen lies with the dead.
The foul impostor that posed as King took a shard of your innocence with him,
but your b...
Sunday 8th September 2019 7:16 pm
Well Enough
Let the dead stay buried down under
leave the towering weed that you planted be
The memory is blurry now, the edge has become blunter.
And that has had to be well enough for me...
Leave the untold remain unspoken,
the unspeakable you never claimed your own.
Take the unasked pardon; the world pretends to have forgotten
So play along and leave well enough alone.
Monday 5th August 2019 7:51 pm
Everything- An Etheree
The hermit worships at the mountain top
He prays at the doom below his feet
bellows loud to hear his echo
and sings dirges to the gorge.
A muffled commotion
slowly wakes him up
tambourines, lute
His suave bride
“My sweet
love
come!"
Unclench
that creased brow
shed that black cloth
the mourner's garment
break the solemn silence
clad yourself in white ...
Tuesday 30th July 2019 11:37 am
I Loved And Loved- A Triolet
I loved and loved with all my heart
Yet I was not loved back.
My full house of scarlet fell apart
I loved and loved with all my heart
Blind faith's a solitary art
'n I failed to see my Jack was black
I loved and loved with all my heart
Yet I was not loved back.
Wednesday 24th July 2019 2:55 pm
Starchild
I make this wish for you, starchild, oh daughter of Tempest and Thunder!
May your cradle faintly rock-a-bye even in the wildest, most vicious winds!
May the waters; oceans, rivers and seas, before you, split asunder.
May the heavens shine on you, may you grow a set of wings
and may you spread them and surely take to the skies and soar!
May every soft snow flake clad your dainty toe...
Thursday 11th April 2019 7:15 pm
Secret Truth
Lightly the young girl dances
around a bonfire; proud of her prized wisdom
While the old man humbly weeps
over all the things unknown; ever, now and hence.
Surely the innocent fawn prances
haughty and ignorant of the looming doom
as the hollow-eyed, huntsman peeps
through the dense foliage of iron-wrought prudence.
Friday 29th March 2019 9:32 am
Love Song
Lonesome lovers loom laments; longing lost love; lo lust!
Odes of ordinary ordeals; of orchid opalescent oases,
Velveteen verses voicing veiled voids; veritably vast...
Eternally embroidering elated, entrancing embraces!
Sirens serenade sweet songs; sinner succumbs.
Obedient, omicompetent Odysseus overcomes.
Nostalgic noblemen never needed nymphs’ nests.
"Graciously go gr...
Wednesday 27th March 2019 2:58 pm
Resist
Hold on with the claws of your heart
The fight has yet to be fought
The war has yet to start
Nobody asked us if we'd like to enlist!
But the knaves still seek to be bought
Resist! Resist!
Paint with the colors of your eyes
A battle-field of charcoal and aquamarine
Search for mine within the crowds of your allies
Remember! It's on the prices of the stakes that you ...
Thursday 21st February 2019 9:31 pm
Keep it Close
This is for all the days
that you wake up feeling lesser.
This is for all the ways
that the order of the world has forced you to say "Yes, sir."
and feign a smile and take a bow.
For every time you have to clench your teeth
swallow your pride, crease your brow
this is the only thing I can leave you with.
For all the dull afternoons
and for all the lonesome nights.
For...
Tuesday 19th February 2019 2:32 pm
Wrongdoer
If there is ever held a trial in a court of justice
To punish the one who stabbed humanity in the eye,
don't go looking for any monster of extraordinary malice.
Look my way, for the hideous wrongdoer is I.
Rip the clothes off my back and kick me down
Spit in my eye and then hand me the flog,
Because I alone deserve to wear the crown
of the cowardly, hypocritical, whimpe...
Sunday 17th February 2019 3:33 pm
GR (In the South)
GR (In the South)
(revised version)
In the realm of vineyards and olive trees
In the citadel of hot humid nights
We wasted away dancing in the breeze
Counting pointlessly the stellar lights.
The foliage urged us in clandestine meetings
we leaned back and let go of our innocence.
Between childish scribblings and philosophic readings,
entranced by the fragrant...
Saturday 9th February 2019 1:45 pm
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