quarta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2023

The door to existence

 On the lake bank
Partially shaded by a huge palm
the day all lit up
auspicious glare

a face beams
a look of surprise
soon converts softly
curiosity

existance has thrown you into the world
discover joy
crawl over on that carpet like grass
live

terça-feira, 15 de agosto de 2023

Dimensions of a smile

 Deep within a smile
where teeth hold joy
where lips seal beautiful secrets
few may actually understand

on the angles of the mouth
saliva slowly pools on the tongue
dimples want to deepen with the smile
curly volunteers

witnessing the roundness of a simper
extending through a happy moment
rolling between the pilthrim and chin
up to cordial eyes

where the world entertains
your face toward it all
beaming
requited visual antiphon

segunda-feira, 14 de agosto de 2023

A discount on uranium

 From over the trees we could see the bomb glowing in its explosion
clawing up the horizon shamelessly and corrosive
panic of danger sending us into crazy bellowing
Don't wink at us over there
the smoke and light approaching at speed

the explosion approximating its destructive pitch
half smile
the shattering impact any second
prayers come in subtle layers of well delivered hope and projected grief

 the flash of the bomb huddles against the land 
fornicating like a trillion fire flys
the full smile
ear drums burst and the land is engulfed like a strange fuel
legs kick and spirits leave

you smile the city roaring in flame
the purchase paid off
you smile
well have you no shame
half of us buried underneath
failed exodus

frowning thriving metropole
smiling ash and bones
Grinning carcass

The lodge

 2 fish swam for the rocky broken shore
At the speed of a ruffled begger
knocking at the door

looking over the rocky lake
Big fantasy lodge going to bring it nye
a conveyor belt moving every desire

huge dorsal fins of different sorts
cutting through the water
a future obscured

yet one sturdy bridge
each plank a special school
a constant miracle

the hardness of the rock
above the fish stock

at the far end of this rocky valley high
is where my strength and genius reside

So sturdy and picturesque

I'm getting so close

the soup of this life


The price of ambition

 the connection errodes further
the fine face of my father
will it stay with me
the soul a suitcase
hopefully

the link is wearing
I see youth still bearing
He still breathes and seems
to tend his freedom
in my dreams

Capture those years and see
for all they are worth he says to me
the meager ambitions I still hold
fat pets are all I have 
 I need eagles ravenous

Can I still get out the album
from behind my eyes like guns
The ones who long to eat the world
the ones who long to see you again
just an image

With a blank space somewhere at the top
so that I may scribble thankyou
over the next adventurous decade
with all the wars throughout the terrain
That I want for my very own brood

Can I still dream of the arrow
whose direction I could decide
when bombs hit and splinter
hint to me shelter 
so we might get back up

reclaim all that was lost
seek those lost ideals
of our greatest intentions
in clouds of flame
might I claim

a new destiny
On this farm of an earth
Renew this great potential yield
Over the lakes and bridges
my word echoes yet