To have lived this life I’ve led and followed, to have given, to have received, and not forgotten what trespassed, remorse has ran its course. Our ancients DNA, and futures generation from me giving way. It was what on earth I was born for. Choices have been made, patterns set, pounded dogs on obstructed pavement met, trekking through jungle’s wilds, and massive labyrinths. I am not the same as before, and possibly ever shall be again. It all seems small. A dimensional me lingers, as well it should, as a reminder of the unfree, mazed in confinements adrift. I sit in a cloud amongst the other clouds, weighing heavily, measuring my myself, maturity, legacy, releasing ego's symptoms, until I acknowledge me, [karma] slowly shall I ascend into its black hole. Set in perpetual motion, an abstract me. I look back with open eyes, wide awake and I begin a new journey, a journey
of all journeys. To keep on path...
...let open your eyes
self-redeemed, shakabuked _/\_
broken & subdued
The moon cast shadows down the hill
The stars shuddered the night was still
Even the breeze cared make no sound
The still lake mirrored heavens bound
She walked mimicking the moonlight
In moonbeams strode past my mazed sight
Beauty vexing the ageless stars
Healing a heart laid rough with scars
But in her passing chances waste
Dumbstruck and stilled; I made no haste
To make approach, or call out to
Her light dimmed, her moonbeams withdrew
The hillside awoke with wonder
In the distance cracks of thunder
The trees spake in rustles the brakes
The lake awoke in rolling wakes
Not only was my bruised heart healed
Her passing woke the sleeping field
Though I saw, it was all in vein
My lips would not part, nor words feign
All the hillside seemed suffer strange
What sorcery has such a range
What heavenly beauty we’ve seen
Could this be the goddess Selene?
No other glean could I thus make
No wiser part of me could shake
The deep found knowing of this truth
My heart and eyes as in their youth
The day may come, but hold the night
Within me glows the breathless sight
As all the hillside bore with me
Captivated by her beauty
Lost in echoes of darkened time
dampened, dithering, dazed
wet withered witches mime a dime
fearful, I’m mazed or crazed
Calling Divinity, voicebox shut
eyelids glued, nostrils stuffed
lips zipped with copper thread
eardrums worrisome waned
Where are chiming confluent clocks
highways and internet ?
shadows dim whisper, “badly blocked,
pointless you bet, get set !”
Surely I paid every debt
learnt my lessons very well
trusted faith, no futile fracas
rose from every slothful rut ~
LOST, part of adventurous life
to find own lucid laws
undoing inner sceptic strife
opens all barred doors …
Silver-lined clumps of cloud fleet floats away
End-summer splendor shines in ashen sky
Pairs of joyful birds bathe in the blue bay
The fall’s footsteps trace hued track on the sly
Ember meadow wears crown of diamond dew
Mesmeric dawn gleams finesse of dream glow
Blazing garden path gets paved with gold new
Empty tree boughs shed bronze leaves rustling slow
Relined spent sun in satin sky sets fire
Falling night sprouts sapphire stars shining bright
Amazed, I roam with mind soaring higher
Long to absorb the moondust with delight
Lilting crisp air spreads out ripples of cheer
Songful my heart hasn’t found yours so much near
Daylight, a star shines brighter than the sun
Amazed to think before creation had even begun
You see, light was before sun,stars, and moon
So God was the light, before day four, too!
That light shining brilliant in the dark
Arising in and lighting up our weary hearts
Reaching dark places to show us the truth
let’s not get carried away
with my cache of failings
and unbless’ed idioscyncrasies
the brain mysterious,
untouchable
mazed, unreadable
the heart lethal,
more ingenious
blowing smoke, big guns
bang, bang
love
bang bang, love
I’ll cover your skin
like soft, warm
cashmere
kissing the inbetweens
moments of sweet seduction
hypnotised, I’ll take
your swelling soul in
bang, bang
love
I’m a gangsta,
Sweet Sin,
Love
is a libertine
Candide Diderot. ‘24
Sweet Sin. Love. Libertine.
This teacher had a bulging eye
Which always made him cry
Wiped tears for days
Face looked like a mazed
To me he always looked high
Stand tall
Don't fall
Look high
Blue sky
Can't fly?
Why try?
Glance down
Don't drown
Pretty lake
So fake
World crazed
All mazed
So wrong
Too long
Time fast
Can't last
Keep pace
Cliff face
Little stumble
Huge tumble
Won't listen
Eyes glisten
Tears fall
Brain pall
I hurt
In dirt
Must try
Reach sky
Good friend
Downward bend
Helping hand
I stand
My heart
Fresh start
Begin anew
Thank you
For solace I wrote
For the peace I will erase
Neither to be void
Nor to be mazed.
For warmth she searched
For the bond she stayed
Neither to be alone
Nor to be chased.
For a child she suffered
For the future she cried
Neither to be weak
Nor to be wicked.
For she had nothing to own
For her wishes were never born
Neither she wished to be here
Nor she dreamt a day of freedom.
For lament I wrote
For the wish I will erase
Neither to be cold
Nor to be amazed.
S-cribe
H-as
I-nspired
E-veryone's
L-ife
E-mploying
A-crostic
N-ote's
N-ice
L-ine
U-nder
Z-est
A-s
R-eaders
A-re
T-ruly
A-mazed
Topic: Birthday of Shiele Ann M. Luzarata (October 10)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Yond odd orb apared asp cruised crawl
'f hurled hymns hoisted sanity sprawl;
'f cherubic sways marred mercies crave -
t' savor sumptuous stray sanct'ty sprayed.
Ah! Wanky winds bore sewn syll'bles -
furred fabrics meshed b' tide's lips dribbled.
Quav'ring quake teased apt awe - ruined rage;
cramped Cynthia cum azure 'neath raved.
"Seekest what you, ho!", fabrics rent.
Scurried for agora - paunch spelled,
asp basked 'n awe mocked hampered haste's rage;
quiv'ring quotient quoth bruised ire rained.
B' sassy sulphur writ 'n th' Rex visage,
baked was apared asp - mission mazed.
'20:07:19:09:47
Note:
a) Of inky intrusion.
b) Written apace with Middle English lexis:
i) Yond - beyond
ii) Apar - armadillo
iii) Asp - snake
iv) Cynthia - moon
v) Azure - unclouded sky
vi) Paunch - stomach
vii) Quoth - said
viii) Ire - anger
ix) Writ - written
x) Rex - King
xi) Visage - face
c) The following are used with no syllabic consequences:
i) 'f - if
ii) t - to
iii) b' - by
iv) 'neath - beneath
v) 'n - in
vi) b' - by
vii) 'n - in
viii) th' - the
d) Poet's vocabulary:
i) Ah - Behold
ii) Ho - Tell me.
M-essage
I-s
C-omposed
H-aving
E-xpressed
L-iterary
L-ine's
E-xcellent
M-use
A-bout
S-cintillating
C-onnotation
A-s
R-eader
I-s
N-icely
A-mazed
Topic: Birthday of Michelle Mascariña (December 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-eader
I-s
T-ruly
A-mazed
D-elightedly
O-btaining
V-ertical
E-xpression
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-y
A-crostic
E-xpression
A-bout
N-atal
N-ote
E-mploys
G-reetings
A-s
R-ighteous
C-elebrant
I-s
A-mazed
Topic: Birthday of Mae-anne Garcia (February 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
L-ady
I-s
G-ladly
A-mazed
Y-early
A-ppreciating
G-reetings
A-s
R-apturous
C-omposition
I-s
A-uthored
Topic: Birthday of Ligaya Garcia (January 10)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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