(“Corpus Callosum", 2018, original encaustic)
Right Brain, Left Brain
Two halves of a whole
Complimentary opposites
Passive/active, imaginal/verbal
Figurative/literal, depressive/manic
Outside and within time
A master and his emissary
Inside us all.
Yet each of us have our own balance
Our own comfort zones
And range of tolerance.
Like a finger print
Within our brain
Leaving its subtle mark
On everything we think, say and do.
Viva the difference!
I say
While my right brain
Just watches, impassively
As thought bubbles form, drift and fade away
To an ambient soundtrack
Of invisible spheres…
(3/7/25)
Categories:
impassively, humanity, life, mystery, perspective,
Form: Narrative
The still, early morning crawl
The minutes tick, the hours tock
Hands of Time, marching on
Past the fences, past the farms
Put the mists before my eyes
Put the cobwebs in my mind
Climb the hill at glacial speed
Move with me – deceptively
Reel the line in steadily
So I think it’s you, not me –
Don’t look back, as I am wont
Upon the tapestry you’ve wrought
Painted on vermillion skies
Slowly, slowly passing by
Leaving but a parting trace
Lost in lines upon my face
---
Oh, Hands of Time! Marching on
Your masterpiece is but a con
Disengage – impassively
Even disingenuously
Let the light and landscape fade
As fade they will at close of day
Come for me before the dawn
Before I wake to find you gone
Taking from the blue sky blue
The breath I once had held for you
Categories:
impassively, death, time,
Form: Couplet
It hung in the air, the word;
the question finally asked.
Knew full well that you had heard,
your face impassively masked,
save for that slight hint of grin.
A stretch of silent years borne;
poor excuses wearing thin,
as are the promises sworn.
Thick silence pervades the room;
enveloped in cloy embrace
of stale scent, a strange perfume.
So, you stare, with frozen face.
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Date written: 3rd November 2022
Categories:
impassively, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Looking back
curiously acquiescent
in 4th floor chaos
Looking through these
dresser drawers of
sleepy underclothing
Retrospective shirts
and tiresome socks,
these sheaths of self
more coincidental
than designed
Everything ajar,
windows, doors
my dresser drawers
Clues left coyly
in my path
by boorish poltergeists
Half absent,
I impassively apprise their
surreptitious ways,
their secret jokes
on my reclusion
Categories:
impassively, absence, loneliness, lonely, me,
Form: Free verse
Since my stroke, I deal with a shrunken world.
Surprisingly, a shrunken desire to visit,
also has emerged; I'd buy a coffin
to hold in readiness, but I'll be cremated
and a cardboard box is all I need, I'm told,
for that. Here's my dollar bill.
Were I from India, a barge could take me
to the current in the Ganges
where fire upon the water sanctifies
the journey to transmogrify a western soul,
afixing it forever to the earth.
Within the bubble of my consciousness,
however, my universe embraces endless joy,
and it is yours, as well.
To quantify reality in any way
succombs to madness.
Somewhere, someone has it figured out.
The wind is at his back;
he knows impassively
that there is singing in the hills,
and always there are problems to give life
to every celebration planned, and right behind
someone to love and demonstrate
compassion.
Someone.
Someone to teach us to listen.
Someone...
Please, let there always be Someone
~
Categories:
impassively, philosophy, universe, , western,
Form: Free verse
MOTHS ON THE WINDOW PANE
Like abandoned waifs
Their faces at the window pane:
Big eyes and flapless wings
All pale and colorless
Out in the dark night,
Silent witnesses
Staring into my life
Listening impassively
As you quietly explained -
You had met
A new face and wanted
To be
Free
To be
With him and
You were leaving me -
My heart was crushed
And throat was choked
As I stared out
Into the silent blackness,
All pale and colorless
With flapless wings
Abandoned.
Categories:
impassively, romance,
Form: Free verse
The suspect, looking like a clown,
Sat quietly in court.
His face was frozen in a frown;
He offered no retort.
Some victims’ relatives were there;
In anguish, they all glared.
The shooter, acting unaware,
Impassively just stared.
I wonder what’s inside his mind –
Accomplishment and pride?
Or does his memory rewind
And think of those who died?
Right now it’s still a mystery,
His motives tightly hidden;
But looking back at history,
Some flaunt what’s been forbidden.
We’ll never really understand
What makes this person tick;
But millions all across the land
Feel sorrowful and sick.
Categories:
impassively, introspection, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Oh glorious shimmer
from my vagrant star,
bestow upon me
the fires of design
to lift me from
despair
in my stark corner,
shrouded by muted
filaments once set
to blaze the void
with resonance
profound.
What beckons me
does so impassively
in balanced measure
throbbing beyond
wobble or inherit
gravity,
tuning my pitch
onward to hurtle
past dimensions
with symmetry to
mirror divinity
borne
inside the droplet
burnished behind
each endeavor
that condenses
upon the brow of
discovery.
Categories:
impassively, allegory, passion
Form: Free verse
There are two similar snowflakes,
they`re dancing in the frosty air.
And childish joy them merry makes
in such a menacing and hostile era.
Persecuted flocks the wind severe
then will sweep impassively aside.
On the sly those naughty disappear,
rest will come soon in the clear sky.
Categories:
impassively, lost love
Form: Rhyme
Vehemently tagging Victims
Impassively Impartial Illnesses Partake
Reveling in Recurrence and Replication
Unbarring any Understanding.....except Universal
Septum’s Of Organism’s Seeking Sinister Salvations
A VIRUS…….is no mortification
Rather simply
......an unforeseen deceptive disguise
Fervently Floating through our thick .....polluted skies~
Categories:
impassively, angst, health, imagination, social,
Form: Rhyme
I look at every thing impassively;
Watching for any change;
Waiting to see what can not be seen;
I am able to see what others can not;
I look into the depths of your being;
I look at who you really are not what you want me to see;
I see what you are capable of becoming and what you need to do;
Watching to see if you chose to go the right path;
Waiting to give help if you ask;
I look deeper and deeper to see purpose in all we say or do;
I see beauties and I also see flaws;
Watching to figure out how things function and how they work;
Waiting longer to see what they do and how they do it;
Alas though it may seem I see it all I do not;
For I am only human and I see how you see;
I see for me;
I share my observations;
Because they just might help;
What I do see I see very well;
Categories:
impassively, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
The sun is for every one,
But it's not equally bright
For each mortal under the sun -
Some seem not to see the light…
The rain falls on every one,
But not each being will be wet -
Some can take shelter or run,
Some are always well-prepared…
It comes inevitably
To every being - chilly Death.
It closes all eyes - coldly,
Impassively - takes each last breath…
Categories:
impassively, death, sun,
Form: Lyric
I remain silent though my heart is weeping.
I exist - impassively and automatically.
I’m a machine – indifferent, hardly functioning.
Yet I breathe. It can’t be true. It can’t be possible.
I always shuddered to think of your departure.
Nothing lasts forever .Yes, I should know this.
Who’s to blame? I try to find an answer.
I was ready for anything except for the dry tears...
I try to find myself in the new reality.
There is no hope to change the course of events.
Sometime my days won’t be so sad and empty,
But now I am in pain. But now my heart laments.
I hide my despair from you and people,
I am full of memories I can’t resist.
Sometime everything will be clear and simple,
But now my lips hurt not being kissed...
Categories:
impassively, lost love, love, heart,
Form: Lyric