Sunday, June 12, 2022

Haiku: Fleeing Inspiration

Low dark clouds scudding 
Over bare thirsting mountains— 
 
No stop for respite. 
 
 

 

Friday, June 10, 2022

Muse: Dear Boy, Bear With Me

The unborn 
Script you have 
 
Still to write, how 
Much longer can you bear not 
 
To issue it? This is not— 
And I repeat—a mere trifling 
 
Rhetorical question 
You are free to answer 
 
At your own discretion, 
But one you must dispatch 
 
With no waste of time or talent, 
And swear never again 
 
To shame my good name 
By writing plodding 
 
Shoddy verse under 
A slew 
 
Of shady noms de plume; 
It’s either that or else. . . 
 
Abort, sport and don't bother 
Cleaning up that bloody 
 
Mess you always leave so
Artfully behind you. 
 
 
 
 

 

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Skewed Cyclopean With Doppelganger

Polyphemus, my good man— 
Had you but two 
 
Good eyes instead of one 
Skewered one, one 
 
Fine day you might well 
Find yourself standing 
 
Before a looking-glass looking 
At yourself like No Man 
 
Ever did without 
Ever once seeing double, 
 
But I wouldn't 
Bet my eye-teeth on it.

 

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Beginning Of A Thought Truncated By The Arrival Of A Sparrow

There is ample reason. . . .why 
This train of thought was 
Derailed before it could 
Reach wherever it was 
 
Going is anybody’s 
Guess but who’s 
 
To say the arrival of this 
Flighty interloper does not 
Signal a necessary 
Deviation from the norm, 
(Whatever norm means in this 
Day and age). 
 
In the meantime, if I choose 
To bask in the knowledge 
That observing this twittering 
Bird on the edge 
Of a myrtle branch so 
It can better reach those pungent, 
Bittersweet berries is a balm 
To my balanced but at times still
 
Tottering soul, who’s to say 
"You are wrong in thinking so."
 
 

 

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Lasting Stillborn Issue

Keep producing 
Shorter and shorter poems 
Devoid of any feeling 
 
And before you know it, 
You’ll find yourself standing 
In front of a maternity ward window 
 
With nothing to show for it 
Save longer and longer 
Pregnant silences.

 

 

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