Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Self-Telepathic Rote Therapy

 
Know this, 
Callous one— 
 
Your next poem knows you so 
Well it’s ready to read 
 
Your mind and write it 
Just for you. 
 
Be thankful just this once 
And show it— 
 
Learn it by heart, too. 
 
 

 

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Curtains In Cosmopolitan Santorini

 
What a buzz, folks!
 
The winning entry in this year’s Aegean 
Art Imitating Nature category is. . . . . . . . . . .
 
 . . . . . . .Ms Phyllophila Ephemera’s totally 
Captivating and stunningly uncommon 
 
Recherché design depicting congeries 
Of local Musca domestica strikingly executed
 
On an arresting white background! 
 
 
 
 

 

Monday, January 23, 2023

Soundbite In The Dead Of Winter

A rose 
 
                    I know Gertrude 
                    Needed it 
 
                    Said four times but 
                    Nonetheless this deep
 
Is a rose 
 
                    Red one by it- 
                    Self in 
 
 
                    A wide-mouthed shining sky- 
                    Blue vase on my desk plainly 
 
Is a rose 
 
                    Doesn’t need her repeating 
                    Herself one bit.
 
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Doggerel: Much After Diogenes

 
Dogs love barking 
At strangers, mutts 
 
Like you, too.

 

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Stoic Poetic Law Of Diminishing Returns

A Greek poet* and very 
Accomplished one at that, 
Once said poetry is 
Rooted in the human breath, 
And added—as an afterthought, 
Probably—what would we do if 
That breath should ever diminish? 
 
And in the same spirit elsewhere, 
Quoted another poet, a German** 
Well on his way to Elysium, 
Who asked what is the use 
Of poets in a mean-spirited time? 
 
I don’t know 
About you but as one 
Who has accomplished precious 
Little in a vast field overrun 
By well-meaning but unfortunate 
Unacknowledged go-getters 
Sinking in despair, I think 
 
We could all use a well-earned 
Breather and leave it at that, 
Buoyant and resting at last 
In those fertile, mythic, ever green 
Grasses waiting cross the river, 
The slightest distance just 
Over there
 
 

 

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