Best Puncture Poems
Ate burnt boureka Topeka screamed Eureka
The needles are numbered
The heart beats few
The mind emptying
The tale of raven's hell
Rapping at the door
The flesh singed to ashes
Fire in the air
The brittle fragments
Jagged to the bone
The weeping iris
One last breath
As the needle passes through
at the entrance to the drive-in church the road divides deceptively
the sign signals divisive directions but mediates midway at midnight
Saviour salvation spirit Satan superstition sacrilege
God giving guidance gluttony greed gyrations
resurrection rejuvenation revelations agnostics atheism antitheses
righteousness roadside assistance available ‘enter at your own peril’
prayers pious power soda pop popcorn psychedelics putrid paranoia
temple tables terra-firma trivia temptation tribulations
selfless sacred sustenance slivering snake salivating
the slow-motion picture posits poignant perusal but it’s a silent movie
apart from back seats groaning settling for sex sperm and splits sheaths
scripted sanguine suggestions sighs salubrious screams
sanctimony shelter serenity suffering secrets sneakiness
spare me serpent and ravaging rod please hit me with your rhythm stick
appease the apple anchor my appetite avert my agonizing aspirations
Eve enters the epic production while Mary Magdalene marries measure
suddenly the speaker system sounds in supersonic spectacle’s squeals
sheep and shepherd apparition or angels dreams or duped delirious dance
purity pinnacles pentacles punishment penetration perspiration
chaste cinematic celebrations cradling caresses X rated cross
on the way home the bubble and the tyres burst into almighty shreds
but the spare rubber went missing and God works in mysterious ways
29th August 2020
Don't Puncture Me...
Don't Goli Bullet Me..
Don't Needle sui Me..
Don't Puncture Me....
Spark of fine trade
Now ready made
Monday brings fare
Of housing cares
One for one deal
To fashion will
A brand new house
As fate funds browse
Sign and be well
For time now tells
The moment here
Offers new cheer
Come to know truth
In visual proof
Detour and see
How joy sets free
A new era
Frames agenda
Keys to the fest
Of happy zest
Let peace abide
To bless and guide
Here at the gate
Ask for kind fate
A puncture can
Bring blessing grand
See beyond pain
To actual gain
Love works the best
To fund new fest
Embrace and seize
That mindful ease
Leon Enriquez
17 October 2016
Singapore
SILHOUETTE (11/23) — PUNCTURE
One virus strain
So much variety;
Painful sketches linger
~~~~~
Here I look
Upon life’s book
To sense fine hooks
Love wears a calm
That spreads fond balm
Here I merge
With fragrant surge
Of pleasant urge
Dream within dream
In earthly stream
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
08 January 2021
Singapore