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Vapour

Vapour

While I sit lonesome at the water’s sprawl,
crepuscular rays have the heaven’s sigh,
as golden hues descend on evening’s crawl,
and soften the edge of a fading sky.

A gentle mist ascends above the lake,
to veil twilight’s plunge with a hoary shroud,
slowly curbing my vista to opaque,
while swans shelter unruffled in a crowd.

A sailboat drifts athwart my vision lines,
winding in patterns delicate and slow,
clutching the air, adapting to the signs,
an ambling dance as the leeward winds blow.

In this serene and tranquil atmosphere,
my thoughts like vapour gently disappear.

Athwart

Athwart

Child:
Look! My dear mother, the serene summit of those high hills.
Hark! My dear mother, the cadences of the handsome halcyon.
Sway! My dear mother, along with the debonair daffodils.
Dance! My dear mother, along with the proud plumes that the peacocks adorn.

Mother:
Come, sweet child of mine.
High hills, handsome halcyons, and proud plumes of the peacock are all fine,
but I must step out to earn.
Nature is divine, and from it, there is so much to learn.
Come, sweet child of mine, I will share some secrets of nature you cannot see.
I will make you discover this nature, athwart nature’s glint and glee.
The serene summit of those high hills is lashed by wind and scorched by the sun.
The handsome halcyon makes many furtive fervent flaps before it gets its prize.
The doting debonair daffodils hold acids to make the rodents run.
The peacock's proud plumes make it look large, to keep it safe from its predator's eyes.
Learn to endure like the high hills.
Learn to keep trying like the handsome Halcyon.
Learn to stay strong like the debonair daffodils.
Learn to make beauty your strength like the plumes the peacocks don.

Once Upon a Time In Hong Kong

Away the land of the flame tree blossoms
  Orient blown athwart a yellow moon,
to hearken the far sound of dragon drums
  and ride a Phantom into old Kowloon.
To Salisbury Road Peninsula doors
  where old enemies its waters journey,
where long ago in the Opium Wars
  Britannia ruled the South China Sea.
Now a new tale of skirmish is retold
  when two foes battled on a foreign field -
O’ but fell the armies in green and gold
  whose fate was All Black and forever sealed.
And to the victors do the spoils belong
once more once upon a time in Hong Kong.


          Written: November 2008


         A rugby trip to Hong Kong.

My Amygdala's Disambiguation

Methinks it's time for me to create
A rhyme.
My marbles have been scrambled and
Methinks it's quite a crime.
To lose the grand red Highway running athwart my mind.
all my T's and F's and Z's are running amuck.

It is the Amygdala's disambiguation
Messing up my brain.

I was making such amazing progress!
I was starting to achieve,
Intrigued I am - about just how the Amygdala disambiguates.
Hower, mussitation in the definition of this disambiguation.
Have left me with a headache of metacognitive frustration.

* Amygdala  - a ganglion of the limbic system adjoining the temporal lobe of the brain and involved in emotions of fear and aggression.

Lost Love Launched Into Space

Such a immense pain I feel
 when i realize that I am not the sun
 that illuminates your life ...
   Distress even greater when perceive
 that your moon has settled
    on the darker side
 that I don't notice ..
 And that we were the same as
    disconnected outcasts
 floating meaninglessly,
    wandering aimlessly,
 lost from that love
     athwart the spaces ...!

The Ocean's Flip Cycle

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The Ocean's Flip Cycle
An abandoned luna relinquished its stardust sky, occasion aroused a climbing star, amidst its heaving rolls of honey-buttered spills, cresting o'er shape-shifting creams, bobbing athwart a cerulean ether, whilst a turbulent ocean, steep with envy, weighing well-meant expressions gifted beyond horizon's rim. A magnanimous sun obligingly soothes, in-kind, blanketing the last vestige of roughness, embracing a collaborated welcoming of quietude. The placating spectacle is performed during Spring's season, synergy affects nutritious trading as cold turns warm.

throughout springtime
heavy water bottoms
hearty warmth lift 

2021 April 03

The Machiavellian

With honeyed comments, you absorb adulation in vain;
drinking it in like a congratulatory champagne. 

Down your nose, you smoothly cajole; 
Deft at choreographing leverage to reach a goal.

The effete man you put forth is cast in boorish airs -
Stealthily exuding to foil all players.

Irreproachable character, you claim in spades,
but to athwart interference you throw up blockades
 
Speaking in bitter tones, speeches full of lies suppressed -
churlishly angered with those that protest.

Twilight Tango

As I stand here before you gazing into your eyes, may I take thine hand in mine?
To behold your poise and charm, and enwrap me into your arms to entrust my need unto thee entwined?
Come away _ come away far beyond cometh thee, _ Let me taste thee on my lips.
As we dance the loving tango _ rhythmic thighs between my hips.
If I yield myself unto thee _ will you want of me upon bend-of-knee as was originally designed?

Doth not you feel the heat within the depths of my emotions', at its’ hidden base?
For words cannot escape me _ pray thee perceive them athwart my face.
Passions rise beyond the morning _ before cometh nigh an ending of my yearning _ and the music to wain and dance away.
With a sigh of great relief flows the river of my nature; now be my anguish restfully at bay.
In the moments of twilight fading, reigns the peace of my new solace, tranquility, and grace.
 ****092020

Reserata Carcerem Lxiii

Athwart swayed a raven 'cross land,
yon cliffs 'n' moist mountains anon 't danced
'til a callous Centuar caught her
'n' made mess ''f graces nature barters.

Ergo did sh' rhino's allure snatch,
'n' 'to confetti crushed sanity's hatch;
her new form "f rhin'cerous raven - 
cloned contractions "f pain, wiles 'n' shudders.

Callous Centuar ergo tottered
'wards hankering hemisphere -
rusty raven ñ longer jocund;
jolting joy cramped b' pizzazz' dagger.

Felon fate caught rusty raven;
yore, she'd had nosy Nymphs cloven.
       '20:08:01:10:29

Note:
a) of callous comeback.
b) Written apace with the Middle English lexis:
i) athwart - from side to side
ii) yon - beyond
iii) anon - at once
iv) ergo - then
v) yore - long ago
c) The following are used with no syllabic consequences:
i) 'cross - across
ii) yon - beyond
iii) 'n' - and
iv) 't - it
v) 'til - until
vi) "f - of
vii) sh' - she
viii) 'to - into
ix) 'wards - towards
x) ñ - on
xi) b' - by

Reserata Carcerem Liii

Quoth felon fate t' nosy nature -
savoring sapid strays punctured.
Worn winds for eerie eavesdrop tarr':
"Why oft does thou nurse salty scars?"

Nosy nature hewn smooth visage
'to a sassy smirk - crushed chins' sway.
Ergo writ she ñ plagued papyrus,
torn tallies acumen smothers.

Fate anon her equipage husked 
a" h' nosy nature's lured lotion gulped.
Ergo went h' with th' eerie empress,
t' apt agora leased b' swoon's interest.

Athwart dangled tamed twain 'cross track,
'n' fate hith'to ñ nature's lackey manned.
      '20:07:22:08:46

Note:
a) of nature and fate.
b) Written apace with Middle English lexis:
i) Quoth - said
ii) Tarr' (tarry) - waited
iii) Oft - often
iv) Visage - face
v) Ergo - then/consequently
vi) Writ - wrote
vii) Anon - immediately
viii) Equipage - Military dress
ix) Husked - undressed
x) Agora - a place of gathering
xi) Swoon - infatuation
xii) Athwart - from side to side
xiii) hith'to (hitherto) - till now
xiv) lackey - manservant
c) The following are used with no syllabic consequences:
i) t' - to
ii) 'to - into
iii) ñ - on
iv) a" - as
v) h' - he
vi) th' - the
vii) b' - by
viii) 'n' - and

Alliteration River Run

Wanton Willows weave athwart the weir
Wishing all the while wilful to wind
Their winsome wands that whelm and win
The restive writhing watery way 

Meandering in moonlit mazy motion
Then moving on in misty morning mood
The river runs by reed and grassy mead
Where wily waders’ stalk in stealth concealed

The stream now slows tween sandy sides
With susurrating sound surround
As silvery strains speak of the sea
And flow transforms to estuary
 
Breakers brash now beat the brook
Unbinding bounds of broadening bay
And memories now melt of milder motion 
The River to be merged with mighty ocean

Let's Take the Long Way Back

let’s take the long way back
beneath shaded oak and aromatic pine
athwart the weathered split-rail fence
bent into the warp and woof of nature’s wiles

past the old place
with its long front porch
and massive beams holding memories
of laughter and dancing feet
in moonlit rooms resonating with sounds of
family and friends fading now
as we roll past the giant willow
bending shade into the shape of long afternoons
drawing water from the well
with the fresh coppery taste
so light and cool on a summer afternoon

we glide into the blue-amber glow
of the western penumbra spread long and wide
with faint lights glimmering in the valley below
melding light and shadow into night
as we drift on wheels crunching gravel
like popcorn between our teeth

the hour is right in its time
and all that might have been
trailed behind and lost the way
back to what we remember
of days that are no more

O, I See

O' I see the trees have shed their sprout
Down from the gardens n' the darkening there·a·bout
O' I see the leaves of a willow windblown down
Touching its feet at the ground 

O' I see the shivering birds b'neath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night under leaves
O' I see red-colored birds athwart the sky
Against the day noon high 

O' I see leap of squirrels onetime 
On the branches they climb
O' I see all through the day into the night 
Many furry n' feathered friends in sight

Many times in search of the rarest delight

Worship the Almighty God

Never can we see the true God
With our own naked eyes; 
But He does exist we know
By His power, we must realize.

By His mighty and wondrous works
The Father is easily manifested; 
He's Almighty as evident
In things that He has created.

He designed the sun, the moon, 
Billions of stars, and the planets; 
Acting across the heavens, 
Athwart the far-flung firmament.

With amazing perfect precision, 
They move not in a disorderly, 
Free-for-all, hit-or-miss manner
But in orbits harmoniously.

The Almighty God who made
Man's life and breath
Is the same Creator who built
His habitation, the earth.

As the Lord owns and holds
Our lives in His hands; 
We must worship Him
And keep His commands.

Give worship of the Almighty
Primary importance; 
If one refuses to obey
God shall inflict vengeance.

Across the Shadows, Athwart the Dark

While we all fallen, asleep
words collasped, howling and weep
Minutes losing, to the night
so glory, even shadows are divine.

The shadows of the dying moon
Reminiscing, the time of Rune,
too close, too soon.
The fire of the dying sun
Sing the song that be unsung.
The life of a dying man
Often regret and reject
of time unwisely spend.

Across the shadows, athwart the dark.
Last thing I saw, was the hope in your birthmark.
Against the stream, into the woods.
Owls hooting, trees whispering, 
lasting like they should.

At the gate of sleep, one last time
Hear the weep, like bells chime.
Harrowing years come and gone, beware.
The fall of new beginning, 
happens from those who never care.

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