Best Myopia Poems
Being bolsters blessings
Subtle spirit staying
Pamper posture primal
Discern discards dismal
Boom boosting blossoms bright
Laughter lingering light
Seeker strokes sound sightings
Mindful moments moving
Living lovely laughter
Signing simple saunter
Juicy jumpstart juggles
Dancing dizzy dazzle
Silent stillness succinct
Dreamy dazzle distinct
Knowing knowledge kneeling
Purge proud pure pride praying
Urge unseen utopia
Meet mystic myopia
Times telling troubles true
Yes yonder yielding you
Leon Enriquez
17 May 2016
Singapore
There’s nothing more satisfying -
Than seeing clearly.
The sharpness of the edges -
Cutting through you,
Leaving you starstruck.
Inspired.
Blink and you just might miss it.
Rest and you may never find.
The speed of reality is self destructive.
Slowly, the lines start to blur.
Fluid motion becomes static image.
Your eyes lose focus, the light starts to stir.
You lose sight of what once lied before you.
Frame by frame, the truth within grows.
Slowly now, and unsavory,
Vision becomes what you can not bear.
One picture perfect smear.
Anxious, and forever still.
Close your eyes,
It’s eternity, after all.
What have you got to lose?
The truth like stark reality remains immutable
Despite attempts to promote sophisms
Dressed up as verity and verisimilitude at a high table
Where misguided minds dabble at euphenisms and cynicisms
To disembowel and undermine global discourse
Indulging in fallacies
To subvert its course and purpose
Concealed in feeble diplomacies and convoluted obstinacies
Whose flak erupts in fits of anger
In inopportune circumstances
Where the longer
Ego tripping attempts to project wrath instances
Couched in veins of business as usual
At the wrong time, in a wrong forum
Strikes an overly assertive tone so unusual
The world is left to wonder why beating a war drum
Can’t drive a spat
Among allies
Who fail to pat
Diplomacy rallies
On the back
Considering the bigger picture as a loftier objective
Than a protectionist posture to pack and unpack
Rising temperatures and mounting tensions in spite of subjective
Positions concealed in the thin veil of national security
Stratagems advanced in intransigent camps
Determined to undermine global authority and purity
To feed bumps, mumps, jumps, stumps
In garrulous annals of history
Rewritten by myopia
To recount a one-leader story
Fed on a plethora of hysteria over Syria.
We are sort of short-sighted
when looking at the life we live .
That's why we stumbled in time,
delaying progress itself...
Clogging up our mission,
of development... !
To see
Just be
Now free
To hear
Sync near
Right here
To smell
Charm tells
Grand dwell
To taste
Purge waste
Sheer haste
To touch
Wise nudge
Give much
To feel
Be still
Love heals
Leon Enriquez
27 November 2016
Singapore
Dull tones smear and coddle in a gray muddle.
Cow munch cloud fields.
A reality steeped in prismatic conjecture
until I find my spectacles.
I enter reality, a Columbus arriving in America;
not on the continent, but on some island
and outcrop just short of finding.
Gradually, through the resurrection
of rods and cones,
a little myopia and less blind faith
feeds the expectant mind,
until it can see both the daffodils
and the ancient hands that brought them here.
I must concede, I must confess
My wisdom’s from unhappiness:
The insight of the salty tear
Stings my cloudy vision clear.
Start with good heart
Let cheer now art
Start then to yearn
Let poise now earn
Start to know truth
Move act as proof
Start to just be
Kind soul set free
Start with clear choice
Live happy voice
Start to be still
Discern love's will
Start with sure ease
Live soul's calm peace
Start to feel light
Sense wonder sight
Start here and now
Watch grace endow
Leon Enriquez
11 November 2016
Singapore
Set succinct seek
Meet moments meek
Juicy joy jumps
See succinct sums
Love lifts laughter
Stream sweet saunter
Bubbly beams breeze
Sample sweet squeeze
Mind meeting mist
Glimpse gainful gist
Prize playful plot
Take timely thought
Hurl healing hurt
Dust dreamy dirt
See sensuous sway
Walk winding way
Breeze bouncing bourse
Craft clever cause
Note noisy nerves
Stretch slanting swerves
Humour hurts here
Set sparkling spheres
Leon Enriquez
18 October 2018
Singapore
Speak if you must in wild card fling,
Each surge now shows how harsh pun cites;
Note crude blind trust as flashback springs,
Streaks of vain flow greet fragile bites;
Obsess the grain of hollow mood,
Rush of fire then swallows all;
Ignite the strain that burns dry wood,
Attest just when strange crackles call;
Life myopic is but a choice.
Meet vague etchings in fate most vain,
Yield dystopic worn jaded poise;
Old line sketching forfeits complaint,
Pique of pride swells an empty mind;
Ink stains now tell of heart most blind,
Apt flavours dwell in moments kind.
Leon Enriquez
22 March 2018
Singapore
Sense sight see
Buzz blooms be
Meet mauve moves
Glimpse grand grooves
Lift laughs loud
Pierce pick proud
Joy juice jests
Feel fun fest
Loud lines leap
Dance dream deep
Meet mind mood
Gift great good
Chance crops change
Risk ripe range
Wise word wit
Flame floats fit
Seek sweet sips
Taste time trip
Vet verse vibes
Touch tells tribe
Leon Enriquez
08 December 2018
Singapore
The dim view of confinement
—the weakest look of all
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
bird's high view
perspective sinks-
'til tomorrow