One
Honour does not emerge by stress,
Until you did your limitation rent.
Two
Life doesn't serve you what you want,
You dish from it whatever you want.
Three
Value is the peak of extinction;
The brim of all expressions.
Four
Ocean rumbles still because it is bound by it,
Man grows by sequence 'cos he's made of it.
Five
Pillars don't stand 'cos they wish to,
They do 'cos they ought to.
c.2017
In a faraway system,
waves of binary combination are pushed
by an eclipse,
through the core of many cold stars
to break on the shore of a petty soul,
one will call as the prophet of the blind sun,
to be praised in silent masses,
to be cried by destitute crowds,
to be scratched on narrow walls by angry nails,
then to be forgotten,
then to be burned on a cold stake.
One exists despite zero,
now mix the being with vacuum for the begining of the next syntax.
Tellus, Grinta Publishing House 2012
(pen name: Calin Derzelea)
There is a combination for everything
the way I wear my hair
and you yours
my squint
and your wide-open stare.
The combinatiion
of words put to paper,
the combination
of words that never appear.
The Universe
combines us,
and we commingle with the stars----
the way a comet passes its years
out there,
the way we pass ours
here.
KILLER COMBINATIONS
(two Dodoitsu)
Money isn’t everything
a vibrant smile might win her
or a very charming wit
but poor and ugly?
Pork and beans – my undoing
a big plate of them for lunch
and this harmless little slip
then she waltzed right in
Myriads of dazzling ,3-dimensional ,quark combinations
found flickering , blinkering ,connecting, tangoing together
forming eternal light magic
Copyright McCuen 2008
Crimson lilies
And Green roses.
Roasted chocolate
And crispy juice.
Happy couples
And me and you.
There are many,
with so many,
at so many,
that permutations and combinations are counless,
I am talking about,
people,
their intentions,
and places,
respectively,
now can you comprehend so many,
of permutations and combinations,
and get into maze,
It would be far better,
if you emrged out of this haze,
defined your own set,
and let not confusion,
let you fume and fret.
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