Bugler and player of bagpipes
Continue. Stretching out
That now breathed to more than a stout
Minutes' honouration.
Soonest war, its great wound
Closes, opens again.
With no respite to the realm's pain.
Nor your own! Death appoints
By tomb, blue-faced, with sound annoints
To stand at attention.
When we lack reliance
And we are in defiance
There is One Who remains strong
He will help us defeat the giants
The narrow gate is a courageous sphere
The wide gate you can take if your full of fear
There is One Who remains strong
There is One Who will comfort us here
Who defeats giants and lions
Who appoints and grafts scions
There is One Who is strong
There is One Who heads all Mount Zions
Indians have been making big splash,
And now there’s this Patel called Kash.
What, never heard of him?
He heads FBI team,
In highly-held hyphens, big dash,
One subsists or just leaves,
He in himself believes,
And tries once again all afresh.
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Happenings |05.12.2024|humour
Poet’s note: Trump appoints his long-time acolyte as chief of FBI.
I live with eyes fixed on eternity,
the notion there’s reward for this is not
a breeze that floats my craft, not oar that points
to brightest stars that promise to shine past
the dawn I dream (I trust) serves life at sea.
Eternity is not a ‘goal’ that I
run toward, but ‘purpose’ which heart fuels with songs
divined. This rhyme but one I hope worth note.
My best thoughts never brag “That’s all she wrote!”
but point to what is yet to come (to wrongs
world’s not addressed so far.) Deny or cry
at finite time I’ve left to act? Tell me,
if so, when there’s no net that I can cast
that might not feed your soul? What court appoints
the hour, my final day for toil? My cot?
Eternity knows best! To serve’s to BE!
Long Tooth
May 4th of 2022
Aroused the velvetine peeks
son of suns lain hues of pink
seren'd to soothe
in scent'd glow
hellish bent
a sentence sent
hath death not life
in dreams now went
sight beheld
hath not been lent
a stop, the door
held firm, to place
caressed to fear
not lost
in-human race
braced within
a virgin's breeze
offer'd up, her god
a half-bared tease
cloth dropped
masks right
lips purge
thoughts excite
the executioner awaits
his gaze sharpens
anticipation appoints to the anointed
as seduction meets her fate
Opt thus to see how wonder lights,
Urge joy to flood each day with peace;
Reach out to be what love puts right.
Sense in warm blood stern pulse in ease,
Prize now and here colours that cheer;
Reap poignant zest that frames wise scope,
Ink words most dear to cast out fear;
Note wit and jest that distills hope,
Glimpse in due time true wisdom plain.
Meet mystic mind as heart frames art,
Indulge fine rhymes that string fond gain;
Rise up to find grand profound start,
At the still point where all things merge;
Charm knows a style to witness change,
Love now appoints a fervent surge;
Etch touch worthwhile in meadows strange.
Leon Enriquez
05 March 2018
Singapore
Opt thus to see how wonder lights,
Urge joy to flood each day with peace;
Reach out to be what love puts right.
Sense in warm blood stern pulse in ease,
Prize now and here colours that cheer;
Reap poignant zest that frames wise scope,
Ink words most dear to cast out fear;
Note wit and jest that distills hope,
Glimpse in due time true wisdom plain.
Meet mystic mind as heart frames art,
Indulge fine rhymes that string fond gain;
Rise up to find grand profound start,
At the still point where all things merge;
Charm knows a style to witness change,
Love now appoints a fervent surge;
Etch touch worthwhile in meadows strange.
Leon Enriquez
05 March 2018
Singapore
by Mark Miller 12/30/2017
Traveler starlight dusts
Our color emotion departed
Ever within never dissident
Below sordid toss assortment
Blooms circuit substance
Our obsessive privy throws
Living symptom circular gaze
Before myopic oceans deep gray
Grasping worlds structure foray
By shipwrecked days estrange
In homes left untouched the many
For whom history appoints
The fill of sentry tales
Holds purpose tenants void
Uneasy steps
In an old map
Lines a strange trap
Hurl of loose lines
On the grapevine
All is not fine
A jerky point
A slipping joint
A fall appoints
Falling feeds fear
Right now and here
Sad broken cheer
Feel that plunge strange
Odd in lost range
Falling to change
Leon Enriquez
26 November 2017
Singapore
Of Cleanliness and Godliness, the adage appoints;
God will be proximate to the most cleanly joints.
Now, Craig’s place is clean, I mean, his pad is bright!
And Steve lives on Craig’s left while I’m on the right.
The way that I figure, if that old saying’s true,
Then Steve’s digs are painted a deified hue.
Steve must be holy as holy can be,
‘Cause he’s next to Craig’s place, and God is not me!
Everyone Educate Horn Limerick
Trump is not keen on making points;
Himself always awards and also anoints;
Nothing ever does he clearly explain;
Drives us insane when he does complain;
Can you imagine cabinet he appoints.
Can't wait to see them on Saturday Night Live;
Will laugh so much and hope we can survive.
Jim Horn
Choice comforts craze,
Aim answer asks;
Limp loiters laze,
Mind misty mask.
Embrace each ebb,
Used urn undone;
Trouble trips trap,
Heap hurting hunt;
Ash appoints art,
Niche nurtures nigh;
Aid arcs apart,
Sign secret sighs;
Infer incline,
Ask apt align.
Leon Enriquez
11 August 2015
Singapore
Zeal in sure heart will fashion mind;
Expect to see the message bold;
Set what you start in passage kind;
Thrill at beauty that takes control.
Words catch the truth in ways of wit;
Observe the flow with surge and merge;
Realise fine proof in dream that fits;
Keep gifts that grow what follows urge;
See the still point in gap and field.
Quest calls within in ample hints;
Use now appoints what purpose wills;
Etch the unseen thoughts in bold mint;
Sight knows that light where grace provides;
Touch propels flight when soul decides.
Leon Enriquez
20 April 2015
Singapore
Fate makes a date with strange decrees;
Appoints and hurls each man a path;
Moves each estate just as surely;
Indwells and swirls all living stuff;
Lines each to each as kin and kind;
Yet moulds our tribe with common needs;
Tricks us to reach for peace of mind;
Implants a pride that each might seed;
Exults the pulse of plain good choice.
Sells each a style with curious feel;
Hides wild impulse in feisty poise;
Endows odd wiles that seek to heal;
Assigns appeal in paradox:
Listens as will lives in-the-box.
Leon Enriquez
06 July 2014
Singapore
Villanelle: Only in democracies reigns surprise
Only in democracies reigns surprise
The majority cast their franchised rights
Elect CEOs who tell fat cat lies
In dictatorships the leader is wise
He elects himself and appoints his mites
Only in democracies reigns surprise
On election day leaders on the rise
By the hundredth day majority fights
Elect CEOs who tell fat cat lies
By end of first term majority dies
Wonders how they kept the leader uprights
Only in democracies reigns surprise
By start of second term the voter cries
Give us our oligarchy by rights
Elect CEOs who tell fat cat lies
In dictatorships people march in files
To show they don’t much care about rights
Only in democracies reigns surprise
Elect CEOs who tell fat cat lies.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
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