Best Imitates Poems

O thou proud Nature
Rolling in ashes of long-burnt
Fiery love of yourself
What are you boasting of?

Thy greenery? 
That’s nothing but
Wooden rotten figures 
With wrinkled claws
Scratching the Earth’s breast
Fumbling for manure
Water-thirsty vampires
Destined to be strangled
By the icy hands of snowy demons!

Thy mountains?
They’re nothing but piles of dust
Proud...

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Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts
 …. We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces.
We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

Quote- Winston Churchill, Painting as a Pastime.

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That Which Within Art's Paradings, Imitates Life

This...

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Prelude to a poem:
Yes 
Not the other way
You see,
What began as a game 
To hide behind eyes
Paranoid, 
Is now, what all the
Millennials call
"A Thing."

So frightened of
Fathers adopted 
And all their drunken noise,
I hid in the living room corner
Behind the easy chair, 
And made up people.
People...

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As the morning light steaks across the room, you stand at the foot of the bed. You are refreshed, an awakened and out of the shower, with beads of water still on your skin. The towel that you are wearing, which is wrapped around you,...

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