(a poem in several Haiku and Senryu stanzas)
The molten gold sun
on cerulean canvas
breeze borne cirrus clouds
flawless days stretching
like sun-kissed bodies - crisp white
linen cabanas
lips roughly sore from
innumerable kisses
we shimmer white hot.
Lulling rhythmic waves -
heavens extravagant taste
- on leisure sculpt days
masterpiece pleasures,
love’s instigative brushstrokes,
paint compelling joy
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songs for this:
Our Day Will Come by Amy Winehouse
Heat Wave by Linda Ronstadt
Viva La Vida by Coldplay
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Haiku poems - 5-7-5 syllable lines - about nature
Senryu poems - 5-7-5 syllable lines - about feelings
Masked impressions become conflicts of interest, when synonyms
Are exteriorly presented as such, but intrinsically are pure antonyms!
While the skies’ feelings are transparent with their idiosyncratic looks,
Are there personality barometers, to decipher our intents like open books?
Hence dissimulation has become seamless as if an ingrained aspect,
Where conspicuous expectations are rather what we shouldn’t expect!
And so predatory politicians pledge heaven, but deliver pleasantries of hell,
While some radical clergies’ instigative teachings echo like a woeful knell...
Disguised saints roam streets, as if on a pilgrimage to some holy land!
Whereas their tainted feet trample virtues on the other hand!
What has thus become the sincerity of countenances on faces?
Glances portraying relics of hidden motives beneath the surfaces?
How deep must we then prod the counterfeit of outward expressions?
Just so we can even glimpse, beyond the guile of masked impressions.
©Maverick Nyambu
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