Robert Lindley Poet Prose

O' That Our Sad and Vain Glories Wouldst Suffice

O' That Our Sad And Vain Glories Wouldst Suffice

O' that our sad and vain glories wouldst suffice
to soothe our nightmare moods, their poisoned queries
angry shadows that prowl long and empty corridors
seeking joy at any precious costs
Alas! Sweet promise that sets its hidden traps
eager for the follies of man-made schemes
steeped within weakness and failed hopes, darkness of flesh and bones
and fated to stagger in blindness of lust and deep decay!

O' that heart and soul could once truly join
to walk upright in radiance of truth and light
dance under moon's warmth giving rays
sing to its cheerful gifting arc
and praise its glory that shines for us all.

O' that darkness lost its deceiving powers
turning to ash from fires long since smothered
in the rise of mortal reach and wisdom beyond,
beyond mere existence and vanity compounded by Fate's hand
thus scale to soaring heights once given to Olympic Gods
devoid of tempestuous failing's, they all too sadly embraced.

Robert J. Lindley, 5-18-2019
Prose, ( The Harshest Reality- That Mankind Refuses To Learn )

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L. J. Carber May 19, 2019 at 1:43 PM The more I read of your work Robert, the more I think you were born 2 centuries too late-- for you truly have the soul of an 18th century Romantic poet.... Robert Lindley May 19, 2019 at 4:06 PM Thank you my friend. You are not the first poet that has told me that in these many long decades of my writing poetry! Always a very inspiring thing to read whenever it has been given unto me.

Kurt Ravidas May 18, 2019 at 10:30 PM Oh, these metaphors! "Darkness of flesh and bones", "cheerful gifting arc", "tempestuous failings". The poet's enlightenments and the reader's pleasure. Robert Lindley May 19, 2019 at 4:04 PM Thank you friend. I am very pleased that you found such favor with this piece.

David Mchattie May 18, 2019 at 3:18 PM Thou art spun a fine warning to us all. Keep up the great work my friend. Robert Lindley May 18, 2019 at 8:43 PM Thank you my friend. *I shall give poet pen its weekly fill of ink. *A tale of magnificent words on which to think. *Verse maps to find its way onto paradise shores.* Poetic journal in which to tally up scores.

Tom Cunningham May 18, 2019 at 1:48 PM If only mankind would travel the one true path and seek the light and not the darkness in his life. Powerful and dark Robert. Tom Robert Lindley May 18, 2019 at 8:35 PM Thank you my friend. So very true. Light, Love and Truth are the Sword, the Shield and the Victory over darkness.