Short Apologia Poems

Rebel/artist/slave, a long, long, near lone life spent swimming against

a bourgeois tide, he makes shore one last time, drags himself back 

onto the beach: a man gets too tired, the sea grows too dark and deep....

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Make what you will,
Yield to harsh play.
Amend wrong feel,
Prompt ploy portray.
Offer to bring
Lines that appeal;
Observe bold fling,
Grace you reveal.
Invert the wrong,
Answer harsh grain.
Frame tact made strong,
Irk sorrow plain;
Now be sorry,
End sad story.




Leon Enriquez
02 December 2014
Singapore...

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Blunt words sharp
In rude harp
Can grind flesh
In harsh dash


It is sad
That words mad
Drench more pain
Once again


Wrong words strap
A blunt trap
As hurts sum
Pain that comes


Loose tongue kills
Skin that peels
In wrong vein
Crude torn pain


Just speak soft
Not high loft
Say: "Sorry.
Forgive me."




Leon Enriquez
19 June 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT...

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ESSAIS ON ART
Transformation,interpretation
an essay in aesthetics,the meaning 
pictures ,telling a story.
New theories of art and the
nature of painting.Prospectus
and preface,postscript and
apologia.Expressions and 
impression of an artist and critic.

Tribute to artist and critic Roger Fry

You may hear me recite this and most of my PS poetry on YouTube under my pen name  ichthyschiro...

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I intend to move away from myself
as apologia for sadness,
Could not give up the zen,
powerless, breathless, drowning,
in my skin, my viens,
sharing the existence of undoing,
what was something.
Nobody I am, connecting to you
by flames of aristocracy of pain,
for eternal slavery.

Primitive memory hurts. Give me your tears.
The world is struck by salutation to sun
I am free to put a mask
and light the dead wood.


SATISH VERMA...

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