Masques Poems

Masques of Tyranny

...Tyranny wears no single face—
it dances in silk and iron,
in laughter rippling through marble halls,
in jeweled cups brimming with poison.

Here stand five shadows cloaked in power:
the Jade Em...

The Masques Of Time

...Today
 is yesterday’s
tomorrow

Tomorrow
 now yesterday
past

The future
today
until borrowed

The past
  a present 
— dying gasp

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)

...

Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me

...The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living star ... wish their joys so h...

Is It Sunday

...'Tis be the night like any, except, 
this year, the eve will fall on a Sunday. 
'Twill be easier for the foxes to 
appear from their denizens.

There'll be time enough for them to
put a...

Storm

...All you have to do is waiting,
To listen to the wind rumble,
Like poor elephants,
All you have to do is waiting,
Sealed in our rooms,
Praying for his slate roof,
Praying for the wires,
I can n...

That's Close Enough

...*Image of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster by Wiki.

That's Close Enough

Shapeshifters, and or, shapeshifting ... preps our world always,
A speck sans a cavass, ... materializes a wor...

Unveiled With Age

...Crowds and noise and people enthralled me
When I had deciduous teeth.
And a simple thought of loneliness 
Engendered collywobbles in me.

How amicable people look when viewed with jejune eyes!
...

Coronaku

...One face for all seasons
Masques play viral hide and seek
caged smiles, pensive eyes...

Digital Persona

...Cave wall shadows.
Plato warned us.

Like Prince Prospero’s Abbey.
A cyber-dominion of masquerades.
Anonymity is a collective loneliness.

Electronic patches and flickers that we create.
The ...

You Can Become Dreamy In a Spa

...”You Can Become Dreamy In A Spa”
(by Rainbow ?? Promise)


Soft Erie-like musical strains  -
Guitars, flutes, banjos, violins 
Float in the Air with rhythmic flare.

With rhythmic flare you l...

Wiz Away

...Wiz Away

I entered the empty funeral hall.
Am I not at the correct memorial gathering in visitation room H?
“Excuse me, sir, but is this the memorial for Mr. Wizby?
 There is not a posting besi...

Introspection

...I  look within my bag, and baggage more unquenched desires.
N erve wrecking mental state, thus illogically surmounts.
T he wisdom of sages to simplify life ends in absurd futility.
R ather than em...

The Rebel No Anima No Animus

...Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards
anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision
implants explosive animation from the deep unknown
like a taro rootstock growing...

Lauren At 17

...She understands the wind in all its fancies;
First born of all our lives in transition
Sheer elegance becomes a metaphor transparent,
To always be a Dancer in the woods.

She lives inside herself and...

Temptaion

...The great tempter tries, subtly, watching us, lurking to lure.

Preparing, waiting to dazzle us, in times we are unsure.

His flames dance so beautifully, as we watch we are in awe.

Wa...

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