Stitch in Time Out - 209
Strange seems the search of maids for mates
when common cause from friends forms foe
replacing with estrangement, hates,
what once seemed blessed above, below.
Familiarity dissipates
romance, contempt breeds, lines won't toe.
Distance links lonely souls who so
imagine they anticipate
complicity which bliss could sow
once twinned together. Yet the wait
itself can contribute to grow
that rancid turns when when what seemed glow
afar fools' gold's found far too late.
Where ignorance seems bliss, minds sow
en empathy that knows no date.
Fête alters after altar's fait
accompli bares the rotten row
of base betrayal where two skate
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In Days to Come
IN DAYS TO COME
In days to come when, dumb, I’ll strum no more
rhymed witness to timed world where butterflies
still dance rare marbled patterns through fair skies -
when I’ll have sunk to rest unblessed before
enchantment fades – who’ll feel one penny poor?
Most, wor[l]dy-wise, ignore one poor demise,
for life continues as before - here lies
our irony, reflections poet pours
in [l]ink think themes on pixel pages’ scores
fade with ambitions one can’t realize,
when hopes unmet forget joy’s first surprise.
Self is both root and cause of fatal flaws.
My memory, wax candle w[e]aned from flame,
may shadow search vain answers to Life’s game.
20 May 2005 revised 16 November 2006 and 25 March 2009
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Charmed Encounter of a Very Special Kind
CHARMED ENCOUNTER OF A VERY SPECIAL KIND
Charmed initials Mon Coeur signals, touching tendrils in the mind
Open onto a stupendous spacious hall,
Reaching out nerves strain synapses in attempt to slip behind
Real reeled cause/effect conditions, great and small.
Infinitely blessed is brillance whose bright colours, unconfined
Enrapture, glow beholden, golden ball,
Reckon up fair features Beauty claims her own as wined and dined
Are arteries well warmed where inner call
Sacred sentiments suggest, surely defined.
Charmed sensations echo empathy, concordance dance we find
Offered where before life seemed an empty wall,
Rigid barricades numb, soul's song dumb, ambitions undefined
Regretfully awaiting Charon's call.
Idyllic seems this atmosphere, unlimited, enshrined
Existence blossoms clearing karmic shawl,
Reveals how many lifetimes skillful Fate had intertwined
As links sweet, strong, that nothing could forestall:
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Sonnets Beyond Dark and Light
SONNETS BEYOND DARK AND LIGHT
Disparity between Light, Dark, appear
figments of obscure imagination,
insipid blight renounces thinking clear,
inept, senseless, snap examination.
Vibrancy beyond sight's spectrum clear
strives to snuff out distorted information,
punctures disdain, contorted context, seer
penetrates desolation's desecration.
Swift, skyward soar, to savour rapture sheer,
transcend man's shackled earthbound cutthroat nation
seize gracious chance, eradicate reign drear
of stuffy standards! key reverberation
spins atom ballet jaded comatose
envisage not, fear ominous, book close.
Preposterous opinions insincere
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Double Helix Abecedarian - 1862 - Poetical Pizza Extravaganza
Above average poetry must whizZ
Zestfully forwards as imagination's fleA,
Bites the author's itchy fingers. Cells greY
Yearn to express opinions, play, or graB
Conspicuous attention with honeyed words which waX
Xanadu with Coleridge nectar or express themes romantiC,
Devise riddles whose floW
Will offer encouragement to those who reaD
Enthusiastically or with excitement, able to reV
Vers libres, prose or traditional versE,
Formally structured or free before life says adieU.
Unlimited possibilities, both flexible and stifF
Glow, grow and encourage lighT
Themes, weighty arguments, or emotional sonG,
Heavy here, light there, avoiding pretentiousnesS,
Shaky grammar, bolstering inner growtH
Insight and altogether acting as an intellectual spuR
Rewarding to both reader and writer where not restricted to the I,
Judgemental values shed from Zimbabwe to IraQ.
Quest for recognition is perceived as holy hadJ,
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From Hibernation's Winter of Discontent
Hiatus hibernation: hope uncloses
fresh cycle, offers confidence one knows is
unshuttering for healing broken heart,
from crysalid apart true joy discloses.
Cocoon appears to be some halfway house
as pupal stage evolves from vain carouse,
an incubation metaphorical
'I am aim' flight prepares, to spirit rouse.
Inaction's action although from without
state changes' range seems subject to some doubt,
bliss metamorphosis takes time, and time
is grind mankind too often tries to flout.
Dreams may be blessed as fears fade, laid to rest,
renewed zest is caressed, heart's treasure chest
pulses slowly till wing span unfurls,
to chart new start, maps jest till nap's inquest.
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S[t]alking Mirror Sestina - CV in hand
CV in hand through contest I would stalk,
ILLEgitimate undertaking I admit,
Lightly through the rhyme scheme let me walk,
I subtle sense within sestina fit,
Stalking pseudo is not hard to talk,
Away for those with golden goblet lit
CV of charming nymph will o’ wisp lit
ILLEgible to most seems simple stalk,
Lightly pen traces, hears the table talk,
I see the comments – praises all admit,
Stalking may be fun - together fit,
Away from prying eyes will life-lines walk.
CV few APe, divine, her verse I’d walk
ILLEgal act for gaol or goal bright lit?
Lightly linking her name to my fit
I root acrostic in sestina stalk,
Stalking talking balking not – admit,
Away with critics and their jealous talk.
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Fractal Reflections 1555
He triptoed to and fro between her energy's go glow and fractal reflections of her parallel factual reality relays in fact, fiction and fantasy, unGODlily attracted to his lily: her.
She, once torn between LIFE giving support paying lip-service to conform_I_tease rediscovers karmic context known, familiar grown, gears up to foreknown as unblown yet sown spins from Time's weave boll weevil's second take at times taking therefrom, EVIL, and adding thereto LIVE - [s]he saw the light. Errors edited out, she'll flout doubt without second thoughts. 'I can' defeats Cannae constraints as carriage receives a breath of fresh air away from day-to-day nights as knight's dreams beam team towards serendipity.
They flowed on SHarEd pixels, photon win/win spin spilling from illusion or self-delusion confusion to fusion's conclusion. Try angles not angels said Pope Gregory formulating information for unformed nation to be strung on Time's beads. Rose awry awaits bloom, disregards doom tomb's drum boom, as some prime[aval] sum snaps hibernation's suspended animation causal chain. Pinch of salt 'collideoscopic' sand mandela bröt grains interweave fractal anima without animus outside time line rhyme's selenite rosary.
Chance ON OM dance advances shedding shells from Chelles to Eternity, from 'here' to eternity. Eagle eyed MOON extends sing-song shadow patterns, warp wefts between real-I-tease, unpeels seals, peals without paling beyond the pale, reels round each successive buy line lass_who woo. Poets self heal, as sin is spin - moral gin VERityMOUTH. Frustration fades as empathy catalyzes vision mission clarity, fords and affords humorous humerus interplay's funny-bone facettes. FIRE supercedes IRE, irony PURifiEd.
Free verse talk walk waves along Way side sways, prays, preys from slay oblivion to play rev_elation - revel in pointed yin yang contradictions, in situ 'sit I zen' situation standpoints. Sinuous insinuations blow-throw topsy-turvy glow flow through Sphinx's choice voice rejoicing in labyrinthine closed or close woven pattern play pinpoint ME-anderings. Dazzle dizzy crazy-paving pictogram universe pyramid's crater creator kids parallel kabbalistic code modes few decipher or deem dream-theme schemes accessible. Hope gropes scope in enigmatic holy gram, reacts to wavelength relays clicking on subconscious screens, attempting to avoid cacheless society's disk risk oblivion.
Imagination is life's architect, being the finite sum of infinite opportunities, attracted to or defracted from protracted links between expectation and reality contract - as contacts contract probabilites, soul re_mainS[T]AYing whole, intact, as tact and tactility tease subcontracted substance with DIStracted EASE dissolving disease often leading through convention to misguided conviction.
Reality remains conundrum, paradox docks parade, if choice is pre-ordained. Thus meted meter met her matter matters little if perceptions are immortal streamlined spotlights echoed as idea[l]s tune-tweak leak spheres' muse music, reaping energy, leaping beyond heated arguments. Current or recurrent pluridimensional parallel cycles, pixel paradox, spirals curlicue ad infinitum.
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Log Blog
Seasons hot and cold conspire
together to perpetuate
a fire ice cycle whose attire
in trice turns bark to dark ash - fait
accompli by Dame Nature's lyre
whose runes tune life, strange change dictate.
No paradox. In town and shire
from dream of steam to solid state
all stays the same, though minds require
the wherewithal to integrate
four elements linked by fey wire
whose strange range can incorporate
life's fractal fantasy entire.
Sodden logs around the fire
soldier like await grate fate,
ramrod stiff and hourly drier,
fiery end anticipate.
Trees which bore for man's desire
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Spidey, Spider
Spidey, Spider
Spidey, spider spinning fast,
I will trap my fly at last,
eight eyes witness final swings
and roundabouts of online wings.
What brow[n] beaten beatle stagged
in cocoon so neatly tagged,
what wet silk that sets dew scene
for caught-on-hop grasshopper green?
Silk’s redigested once prey’s bagged
for protein’s precious, times are lean.
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