The warp and the weft, repeating the beat
The weave of the ware of the fabric of life
What's looming? What's left? What pattern repeats
In this tapestry seems to be sweetness or strife
Shuttling between them's emotional whiplash
A journey in learning the middle is midrash
Extremes between seams can leave something coarse
The coin of the realm, from barter to bourse
The subtleties woven and worn of whole cloth
Become torn and tattered when the weaver is wroth
Weaving's deceiving if not done in good faith
Leaving a tale more frail than the wraith
But if the tapestry woven is living with care
Not mediocre but choosing what's apt
The tale leaves a pattern not tattered or bare
And a story that's left the reader enrapt
Been to the London Stock Exchange
opened in 1571 by Elizabeth the Queen
and what's more saw the New York Big Board
the world's largest stock market ever seen
but when I took a trip to Paris
had no clue as to what to do
altho' I was educated in French
(parlez-vous?)
I believe brokers did so to discommode
as when yelling buying or selling
they communicated in Bourse code
We have the world all to ourselves, free of cost
We own everything on and above the earth,
Abundant food and the water and milk to drink,
And gold nuggets sprout from deep earth for us
And the richest of diamonds and precious ores.
They are there for you and me. So worry not.
But sit back and inhale the cool breeze, the air
The One has cleansed of toxic fumes and smoke
And the bees bring you honey from flowers
And heavenly perfumes and colors of Paradise.
Man claims he makes all these and struts earth
As though he bought them on his own bourse.
Or elsewhere from his hard earned cash or loot.
He is paranoid: some day he might lose all these
He has to defend against enemies unseen, unheard
And he ends barricading against himself in despair.
MYSTIC MOMENTS 11
Stay course
Verse lines speak
Spark fine cause
Love styles meek
Spread bourse
Be in being
True becoming
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
13 January 2021
Singapore
Beneath the fabled, innocent and polished mind
In a tinderbox wrapped up by an askant beldam’s hand
Above an unmarked grave that is welcoming, rather kind
A pair of eyes noticed a hue in the dunes of white sand.
Nom de Dieu! Shall we move forward as I amn’t uncivil,
Scarcely having been crude or a tad coarse,
Do not trap me in the cyclone of this swivel,
Do not tempt me with a sale on a second-grade bourse.
A gauche tongue displayed a tonne of venom
Is it just a gene that could not have kept it shut?
There is nothing more that destroys a character plenum
There is no pain anymore that felt like a punch in the gut.
Ohh Helen, this time a polemic won’t start a war
I originate in my own omphalos, in silence and solitude,
Driven by sheer desire to wear nothing more
Then my pallium until my last prelude.
Words fail
To fund ease
In lapsed peace
That unveils
Joy bleeds
Quest of bourse
In lost cause
Where pain seeds
Faith dies
To harsh fear
That drowns cheer
In odd sigh
Hope drains
In lost way
Where dark days
Breed more pain
Once good
Now feels sick
In blown wick
Of dead mood
Vile squeeze
Of blown wit
In stray bits
Toss cold sneeze
Wet tears
Tell in vain
Of sad pain
Void of cheer
No more
Poise of choice
To seed voice
As gall pours
End game
Death culls best
Breath of zest
In nude name
Leon Enriquez
23 November 2018
Singapore
On the way
Play
Rewards day
Watch crisp thought
Plot
Affirm lot
Feel each feel
Will
Return thrill
Gain grand good
Food
Whim of mood
Fest meets jest
Best
In true quest
Find your gift
Lift
What you sift
Seize this day
Pay
What you say
What you find
Mind
Keep touch kind
Taste each bit
Wit
Ever fits
Make scent sense
Hence
Present tense
Love frames deep
Reap
Dance dream sleep
Know your cause
Bourse
Not yet last
Set grand sum
Lump
Fine outcome
Leon Enriquez
22 October 2018
Singapore
Meet moments meek that frame fond poise,
Yield in clear trance the way love grows.
Joy journeys jest as wit greets choice,
Opt thus your chance to sync with flow;
Urge precious feel to show just how,
Reap what you sow to effect cause;
Note kind goodwill right here and now,
Etch light that glows the journey bourse;
Yes to the thought of truth lovely.
Join with pure grace the passage crisp,
Observe fond lot in wise beauty;
Use flavours race in message brisk,
Rest in the light of healing grace;
Now watch soul flight through time and space,
Ask for wise sight to flood your face;
Love honours plight to sketch your place.
Leon Enriquez
18 October 2018
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
Abrupt as pain
Hurls the wet rain
Now once again
Abrupt the feel
As broken thrills
Splash in wet will
Abrupt the course
Of unseen cause
In hurried bourse
Abrupt the rhymes
Beyond mere time
As echoes chime
Abrupt sad fate
That comes too late
To curse and hate
Abrupt odd range
That disrupts change
Yet feels not strange
Abrupt as gall
In splash not small
Yet empties all
Abrupt not plain
Such liquid stains
In hollow gain
Leon Enriquez
25 July 2018
Singapore
Beyond age
Beyond stage
Beyond page
Old fold
Old whole
Old soul
Deep mood
Deep food
Deep good
Sweet say
Sweet play
Sweet way
Fond space
Fond face
Fond grace
Time chimes
Time mimes
Time rhymes
True pace
True race
True ace
Light cheers
Light steers
Light clears
Souls cause
Souls pause
Souls bourse
Last book
Last look
Last rook
Leon Enriquez
09 May 2017
Singapore
Etch profound gaze upon these shores,
Zest feeds courage beyond mere chance;
Ask to know maze and grow some more,
Grow sound message to greet the dance.
Do with fond feel with focus grand,
Dream funds appeal as firm strokes blend;
Obsess pure will to sparkle trends.
Truth has sure say in what may be,
Feel and live then that burning fire;
Echo each day sure pulse set free,
Love knows just when fate meets desire.
Work well the fate in your own hands,
Expect due date to bless you friend,
Yes dare to plate what practice sends.
Note that sure flair in touch that traps,
Allow each gate to ease pretence;
Use each affair to seed thought wrap,
Keep clear of hate that hurts your sense.
Effect true cause in what springs due,
Exult bold course with profound hues;
Live that sure bourse as thought floods cue.
Will that pure zest to work your best,
Offer to be the dream come true;
Notice dream quest that sums your fest,
Know what you see to be just you.
Leon Enriquez
30 March 2016
Singapore
Ask for clear poise
Begin with choice
Charm works fond voice
Etch a kind face
Apply fine grace
See beyond space
Yield happy place
Achieve your prime
Believe sure rhymes
Conceive good times
End what you start
Align firm heart
Sense joy that arts
Yield to fond parts
Apt as the light
Be brave and bright
Calm feels so right
Effect sure cause
Abide straight course
Speak joy's sure bourse
Yes glide across
Ask just to be
Beauty you see
Cheer that sets free
Leon Enriquez
19 January 2015
Singapore
Fate hurls a sway
Through night and day
To fling a play
Play forms in kind
A state of mind
In sanguine finds
Finds that we make
Can fashion stake
In norms we take
Take funds a cause
In poise and course
That bear a bourse
Bourse in due time
Can set the chimes
To pact and mime
Mime in sure steps
Can forge a map
Or set a trap
Trap can contain
Our hollow strains
In empty gains
Gains can be lost
In fate we toss
To rid the moss
Leon Enriquez
23 November 2014
Singapore
Mind murky mire
Sense special sire
Free fleeting fire
Fresh funds fashion
Aim attraction
Mind moves mention
Why wrestle words write?
Clever charm cites
Busty blooms bite
See sunshine sway
Dance deer dear day
Prompt puzzle play
Mind moves magic
Thrill things tragic
Speak signs static
Be beyond bourse
Stay sexy source
Calm crunchy course
Play passing pay
Live laughing lay
Sooth sighing say
Voice vexing verse
Opt odd observe
Thrill timely terse
Leon Enriquez
10 Apr 2014
Singapore
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