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Order Vs Chaos

Tic Toc I watch nonchalant 
arms of the clock
Shift and rock
Grandfathers hands join-unlock
Conducting my living room symphonies

Horns and strings mingle in streams
Blending with screams
Torn from dreams
Nothing here's quite as it seems
Parading illusions own infantry

Unified steps for countless miles
Drum major smiles
All the while
Mr. Chaos with his wiles
Pounds balled fist to the ground and the world shakes

Soldiers black boots slip and fail
Legs become frail
march derails
From it's tracks and over the hill
Organized spectacle dropped by the quakes

Sister Order peaks through the clouds
Peeling the shroud
Eyes the crowd
Thunderous voice screams aloud
"AT ONCE I DEMAND TO SEE DISCIPLINE!"

Pick yourselves up and dust your boots
Stand tall recruits
Firm salutes
Rank- file assemble the troops
These logical patterns are systemic

Lines her pockets left over notes
Sly witty quotes
Inked and wrote
Folded origami boats
Set adrift on the Lyrical Ocean

Mr. Chaos from shadows sees
Bounds from the trees
Dives in sea
Swims to bottom- pulls plug free
Once calm waters now swirling commotion

Sister Order turns back around
Spectacle found
Scowls a frown
All was perfect- safe and sound
Til that trickster Chaos came and messed it

Removes her sandals- drives ahead
soles of feet tread
Dry sea bed
Picks up the plug-shakes her head
As she curses her brother- "THAT MISFIT!!!"

Copyright © Ronald Wheeler | Year Posted 2015

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Charmaine Chircop Date: 5/4/2015 1:23:00 AM Mr Chaos is indeed a sweet trouble maker watching from shadows of trees..His fists shake the world.He pulls plugs free in the water must give a high voltage shock: ).This is very entertaining..Though those strings torn from dreams are somehow sad...Different and much to munch upon..Even in the grand father clock one can find. a meaning,impressed . Login to Reply Ronald Wheeler Date: 5/5/2015 7:59:00 PM Thank you Charmaine! Sweet words...

Paul Callus Date: 5/3/2015 2:06:00 PM Very clever and witty way in which to keep the balance:) Creative, too. // paul Login to Reply Ronald Wheeler Date: 5/5/2015 8:00:00 PM Thank you kind sir!

Skat A Date: 5/2/2015 12:16:00 AM Hello Ronald, Thanks for that'' he says. hehehe. I love your attitude :) anyway. I'm hooked on the origami boat. Adrift at sea, not once will they give heed to anything I breed. I imagine you freestyled this poem in one sitting. Awesome...... SKAT Login to Reply Ronald Wheeler Date: 5/2/2015 6:19:00 PM Thanks SKAT! I thought it was a kind of fun. I just had the idea to create a myth surrounding a natural phenomena and this is what I came up with....