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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

Date: 5/19/2019 1:43:00 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
Date: 5/19/2019 4:06:00 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

Date: 5/18/2019 10:30:00 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
Date: 5/19/2019 4:04:00 PM

Thank you friend. I am very pleased that you found such favor with this piece.

David Mchattie

Date: 5/18/2019 3:18:00 PM

Thou art spun a fine warning to us all. Keep up the great work my friend.

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/18/2019 8:43:00 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

Date: 5/18/2019 1:48:00 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
Date: 5/18/2019 8:35:00 PM

Thank you my friend. So very true. Light, Love and Truth are the Sword, the Shield and the Victory over darkness.