Best case scenario -
my fame walking into the future,
all my failed handiworks
recognized as avant garde – well before their time.
Honor and distinction heaped-up posthumously.
An unexceptional life
discovered to have been really ‘sui generis’
uncommonly so.
Applause echoing through the ages.
Most likely outcome –
a contrived eulogy,
slightly embarrassed onlookers
searching for right words.
Shrugs.
Categories:
handiworks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Best case scenario -
my fame walking on two legs
wearing a golden helmet
(I made a bowl which I hammered
out of a lump of copper in workshop-class
aged 14, not good,
but all is golden now, for he who comes after me
has written an autobiography
that has left-out most of my failed handiworks).
He speaks from the empty shell
of a hermit crab. Distant stars love him.
He continues restoring my poems
long after they have crashed
into brick walls.
Or, he may come as the woman,
the one I have been seeking
in that frosted window of a past life,
She who I can only recall
when drunk on Blue Nun wine,
a Liebfraumilch that knits
all star-crossed lovers together
as they write themselves
quietly out of history.
In that almost land
my beloved unveils herself,
waits for my mind to open
like a blushing coral
sea anemone.
On the other hand,
he who comes after me
that man who watched my life
as if my body were at the bottom of a cliff,
he who also goads me to tinker with words,
converting them into land-mines
that sometimes maim.
If he shows up after my life
then I am going to haunt him
because he deserves to be scared
of a guy like me.
Categories:
handiworks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Woven together like fine mesh
A perfect fit of flesh with flesh
Handshaking
Mutual between romancers
Affirmations flow like dancers
Handwritten
Pearl earrings, dress of lace
Roses, baby's breath, and vase
Hand-chosen
A diamond in a ring of gold
The framework of a new house sold
Handcrafted
Young bride and groom, fifty years wed
Sunrises and sunsets ahead
Handholding
5-3-2020
Compounding The Verse Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
Categories:
handiworks, beautiful, happy, love, marriage,
Form: Verse
COPLA CUARENTA: This Bad Guy World
The World looks good for those on top
For theirs the very handiworks:
The rest serve them
For long centuries top spun top
Some turned tables to take over works:
Looks good to them
If changing hands changes no head
Bad Guys gravitate up ladder:
World upside down
Turn the pyramid on its head
Vow of poverty for ruler:
Make good rain/reign down
© T. Wignesan - Paris, 2014
Categories:
handiworks, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue