Destined...
The podium shakes,
The applause fades,
Truisms and lies
Scatter to the winds;
And History repeats...
...But Hindsight waits,
Smirking in the wings...
Friday 13th December 2024 6:25 pm
Rosary.
Happenstance after happenstance,
With some choice in between:
The rosary of our lives,
With moments replete,
Whispers sometimes
In the stillness
That, yes, we are just
Flying on borrowed wings,
But, oh, what a journey
This has been!
Monday 2nd December 2024 10:24 am
Jesting...
A jesting world
Nesting beneath
A veil of ignorance,
Sensing the comeuppance
Yet washing hands
Of facts bearing fruit,
For what use
Are mummified truths
Cradled deep within
The bosom of the cosmos,
When but the next blink
Can lead straight
To the very next
Comforting conceit?
Monday 21st October 2024 8:33 pm
Human.
Inscrutable to ourselves,
Flying on borrowed wings,
Regurgitating calamities,
Requiems and hymns,
Our truths flitting
In and out of fables,
Yet our moonlight-misted words
Always somehow able
To herald the dawn,
Replenishing our song...
Tuesday 15th October 2024 5:43 pm
Owl.
An owl takes wing,
Shudders at what it sees,
Rests on the shoulder
Of Minerva, begs her
To bless with wise counsel
The world-weary,
The battle-worn,
All who have lost
Sight of terra firma,
As well as firmament...
Wednesday 18th September 2024 2:31 pm
Beacon.
Only tethered to the ether,
Where to find a beacon
To the blameless dream,
When the sibyl's susurration
Befuddles, and the lyre lures,
But in its lowest notes
Knows that should
The Idyll dissolve,
The Farce unfurls?
Monday 9th September 2024 11:35 pm
Wrestling...
Wrestling with illusions,
With fiendish and apocryphal delusions,
Foraging for the prophesied freedom,
Disparaging every funhouse mirror;
Unschooled, yet intimating knowledge
Of cornerstones and sacred particularities,
And, with synapses on high alert,
Awaiting contingencies to coalesce,
Some elemental certainty to effervesce,
Illumining, perhaps, sturdier next step...
Saturday 24th August 2024 12:34 pm
Orphaned.
An orphaned wisdom,
reared by the eras
but abandoned to dust,
trailing its melancholy
of understanding, counterpoint
to the sleights of hand,
and, if witnessed, glistening
like an act of christening,
in a decipherable tongue...
Tuesday 13th August 2024 1:19 am
Phantom.
Who was to foretell
The blame-thirsty like to search
Where phantom foes lurk?
Thursday 1st August 2024 12:30 pm
Poltergeists
The poltergeists of every
fait accompli, roam
freely but unfree,
uttering their guttural
regrets, with a
fluency ghostly, and
so very costly...
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 8:31 pm
Ageless...
Truths tremble on a tightrope,
while concerted Complacency
watches from below;
an ageless spectacle,
as that same, stale
double bluff reverberates,
eclipsing the unsung,
only to favour the glorified,
least resisted path...
Monday 15th July 2024 4:16 pm
Mellifluous Madmen
An anonymous melancholy.
The gravity of the question
Met with but the frailty
Of the response, something
Trite about sine qua nons,
Something feeble from
The shibboleths of old...
And that's just when
Mellifluous madmen,
Glint in their eye,
Deliver such gladdening
Tidings, and the fairytale
Lives, for a while,
At least, usurper
Of the breaths of tr...
Wednesday 3rd July 2024 5:18 pm
Suspended.
Disbelief suspended,
Mischief invented:
The dominion of dreams
Aflicker with potential,
Afloat with the tangential,
Where daredevils set sail,
Hypnotic courage ablaze,
Hurtling, untethered, towards
The lands of Maybe, or Never...
Thursday 27th June 2024 2:05 pm
Unearned.
There's a hallelujah beckoning,
And the far scent of a reckoning,
A doleful scramble
To steal a march on
The frenzy of finality,
All the while yearning
For yet another
Unearned moment of unreality...
Monday 17th June 2024 2:21 am
Prophetess.
On Cassandra's scroll,
Syllables of ceaseless doom
That no one would heed...
Saturday 1st June 2024 5:33 pm
Missing...
Placating relentless yesterdays,
Pleading to curry favour with tomorrow,
Missing all the gentle secrecy of zephyrs,
As if preferring the fate of Sisyphus...
Thursday 23rd May 2024 1:09 pm
Earnest.
Eyes averted, will deserted,
No Pythia to presage the passage;
Don't bother, an adage
Won't bandage this stale chaos,
And some pseudo-perspicacious
Soliloquy by the supercilious
Will only stall catharsis;
It was dream, dilemma,
Delusion, decision,
But the music won't stop
Unless faced, Pride abased,
And with an earnest
Nod to imperfection,
Redemption emb...
Thursday 2nd May 2024 10:02 pm
Hark...
The swan: no more song,
Marsyas: into silence flayed;
Hark the hand-wringing...
Thursday 18th April 2024 6:43 pm
moment.
The patrimony of a moment
In Time suspended:
To be caught unawares
In some ruthless hourglass,
Scavenging for mercy
But only finding sand...
Tuesday 9th April 2024 4:19 pm
In memoriam...
With an eye to eternity
and an 'in memoriam' murmur
from the caverns of posterity,
it's all sotto voce prophecies
in some sub rosa haze,
too late to be wrangled
out of conjecture
right at the juncture
of hope and fear,
where sophistry comes cheap
and distant requiems plead:
why did you care
for every wrong thing?
Sunday 24th March 2024 4:24 pm
Silhouette.
A silhouette staggers,
searches for clarity,
knows it can't be
fully-fleshed yet
abhorring being
a wraith, just
asking to be seen,
craving that legitimacy
of witness; if Elysium
can't be reached,
then, at least, ward
off the obsolescence...
Thursday 14th March 2024 10:59 pm
Farce.
Farce interrupted
by battering ram.
Cutlass thrown
into erstwhile Shangri-la.
Palimpsest burdened
by repetition: eras
erased, yet more
of the same.
Recitals of remorse
caress the ears
of the wilderness
alone.
Casuistry made king,
rather than curing
the paucity of wings...
Tuesday 5th March 2024 6:10 pm
Sisyphus winks...
Like a fatherless wind,
A forlorn zephyr,
Graceless before
The grains of sand,
Faithless when forced
To take a stand;
A miser, counting favours
Instead of stars,
Wilting now with
All that arrogant
Fragility of a daffodil,
And all the while
Sisyphus winks,
Ever so grateful
For your fellowship...
Tuesday 20th February 2024 2:39 pm
Translucent.
A chaos seraphic,
with order translucent;
an anointing of wounds
awaiting in the wings,
glistening with the courage
to salvage all merit
that remained from
the truest of myths...
Monday 12th February 2024 12:24 pm
Firebrand.
Roots sinking,
Conviction unblinking,
As cassocks demand
The soul of the firebrand,
Just to master the survival
Of manicured lies
And winsome façades,
Neglecting to reflect
That somewhere, some
Of the time, Prometheus
Doesn't genuflect, allows
The dream to effervesce,
Willing to take
The punishment instead...
Thursday 1st February 2024 12:23 am
Sublunary...
Tidings of treachery
in a hummingbird's trill;
An exchange of aspect
between wolves and sheep;
A blameless moon usurped
to illumine vengeance
enacted by temporal
fragments feigning a whole,
eschewing their divinity
for some sublunary throne...
Monday 15th January 2024 2:50 pm
Warblings...
"Through millennia meander
as you will, with
a hymn, a maelstrom,
and a nemesis," said
the nightingale to
the king; "just don't
mind the augury,
listen to me:
a dandelion whispers
its infinity to
the blowing breeze,
and a future's never
inked, but only
by starts timidly
backlit; Time will
impishly wink, as
Life and Death
dance in chiaroscuro,
...Friday 5th January 2024 3:50 pm
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