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I am a little weird

I am a little weird, I will admit,
odd as well, but bizarre? Not a bit.
It’s my appearance, you will agree:
my head is on reversed, strangely.
Consequently I see things from the back,
a privileged view most people lack. 
But I don’t mind, so, please, no pity
for what others call my “deformity.”
It’s really a blessing in disguise,
for it’s made me singularly wise.
How, you wonder, can that be?
Let me explain it, and you’ll see.
You may see what’s in front of you
but rarely what lies behind – true?
Surely this an unfortunate defect,
whereas my whole life is in retrospect.
Better still, and quite literally,
my problems are now all behind me –
whereas, according to my view,
yours are sadly still ahead of you!

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the way my words move together
                           fall 
                           from 
                               me 
                             on
                     occasion ~ as a fine rain ~
                                  in TO
                                      RR
                                      EN
                                      TS
 aboltingbreeze
 a sneezy desert devil
    erupting flur-ries
                                     as scorching        day
                                   the refreshment of dew

             u 
          s     n
 as a t          a m i 
                                    an enigma 
                                              of clouds...
  
The indivisible collective 
singularly possessed
voice

authentic 
iterations

From The Parthenon to Paris

Let me tell you of a journey- from The Parthenon to Paris
in the springtime - of which real year, no one knew
Riding on an ostrich guided by a gilded leather bridle
traveling back roads dressed in mysterious disguises
using signals only ostrich riders do.
 
The endurance of the ostrich was as equally surprising as
the smoothness of its gallop on the road.
It needed very little in the way of daily edibles
while the softness of its feathers made a very comfy saddle.
 
Now an ostrich made an eerie sight in swaying fields of daffodils.
Its three-pronged feet so admirable for climbing alpine hills.
It handled every mountain as well as any Hannibal
with eyes adept to guide a sleepy rider while he slept.
 
The gallop into Paris was singularly memorable –
No wildly cheering crowds of proud Parisians-no-one knew- 
No showers of cherry blossoms sprinkled from the Eiffel Tower
in  praise or  celebration of this epic ostrich rider.
 
What evidence is there, then? What  memory endures
Perhaps a photograph or witness tells the tale
If the novelty is forgotten and the mists of time have passed

Could fields of daffodils remember or perhaps the Cherry blossoms?

Glints in a Winter Skyscape

Frost has cracked the sky,
the air scintillates,
fragments and splinters of light
shred through layers
of any a softer luminescence.
Blue and white shrapnel
bounce off a shattered vibrancy.

A few autumnal leaf's slow burn,
they are last embers, a crumbling rust
whittles at thinning stems.
Singularly, they fall
sparking into invisibility.

This morning the air is not broken,
it is a fanfare of ice-pierced brightness.
it's a stained-glass window
as still, and as perfect
as a prism set within
a dragon's gleaming eye.

THANKFUL FOR WORDS AND MUSIC

Today I’m thankful for words and music
and their singularly beautiful goals….
Words are meant to touch our hearts
while music fills our souls.

OPEN VERSE NO 15

SIGNIFICANCE
rhythmic
  repetition
in
flowing lines
expressive
  intuition
to the fore
excursions
into the spontaneous
magnificently
  emphatic
emotionally
exaggerated
   &
yet
  naturalistic
portraying
continuance
 profound
&discriminating
common
 experience
in a
 synthesis
intangible
separate
affinity
of
   inspiration
formal
  but natural
singularly
free
 yet organic

OPEN VERSE 13-14

RESPONSES
microcosm
show
 in a still
life
exotic
  emblems
in
    magnificent
detail
creative
  durable
meaning
a
closer
  experience
the
  essence
of succession
so
characteristic
&
  sensual
reflecting
the
unexpected
positioned
  discovered
with
  undivided
  attention

DISTRACTIONS
expressive
  resonations
rhythm
 reverberating
structuring
   contours
process
 the potential
in
prevai
prevailing
one-dimensional
straightened
imitative
balanced
  &translated
appearance
in the abstract
TRADITIONS
prevailing
so naturally
start anew
singularly
   profoundly
free
filling
 the organic
with
decorative
  linearity

Silver Lining

Combing through the carnage
Questions outnumber answers
Derailed if dwell on the details 
Will we forfeit all our advances?

Easy to get singularly focused 
On second guessing decisions 
Better to not ruminate on regrets
Since the past has no revisions 

Power in pivoting to the present 
As a new path has been charted 
Final destination still unknown
But in a better place than we started

Enhance Your Dance, Oh Prance

He dances so well in those flares.
Such a gliding, sliding motion.
Round and round - planetary.
Prance, and prance, prance, prance.

Is he a dummy, a puppet?
Yet singularly, exceptionally charming.
Do we believe he exists? He does continue to
prance, oh prance, prance, prance.

Such a springy way to dance - so elastic -
enhancing that appearance.
Such a stunning, gorgeous
prance, gee, prance, prance, prance.

Is he mad? Or are we so?
Oh, such a one-man energetic bustle,
spirited, bubbly - such an indefatigable
prance, that prance, prance, prance.


(29.01.23)

Winter Waltz

serene stun scenes seen
singularly secluded 
stars seem simply shining strained 

sun shuns such scent sacks 
sabotages surroundings ---
scribble sleek soft-sounding songs 


10 January 2023

Provoking Reaction

A word that lately gets little traction
     though when used provokes quite a reaction

   I find it singularly persuasive ~ 
     to describe the world today as 'invasive'

Mind Our P's and Q's

The sane file singularly, wait impatiently to enter
the sanctuary of sanatoriums.
Crazy has a mission, it rushes, it presses
with a pitiless paranoia,
it packs suitcases moves into unguarded minds.
For we cannot spell it out, dare not decry;
for the mad remain morbidly mean,
they are building places
to keep us far, far away
from what we could and now should say.

Summer Sounds

Superb the sounds of summer’s soliloquy
So sweetly singing the sparrow’s song,
Sometimes she sounds suddenly sonorous
Since startled sparrows sing shrilly strong,
Summer sounds so singularly sacrosanct
Swallows and swifts sing slow and soft,
Sailing skyward like sandpipers swinging
Standing, then, on solid sand sashaying
Soon sauntering, staying satisfied, sane,
Soothing summer sounds stolidly serene.

Written August 18, 2022

Problem With Cultist Emblem

Eagle-Rare is The Union,
All her members’ arms pinion, 
Not with a from-behind arm twist  
But thrills that can dare a long list …

You join her you pray to not leave,
You indiscreetly go ahead to leave,
You never cease to piteously grieve
Or emotive sighs endlessly heave. 

But please, in the open say it not:
Still on her white sheet parades a blot
And lives with a touchable problem
Singularly bought her by her cultist emblem:
A pair of squinted eyes,
Whose owners’ broad smiles are lies;
And teeth that can one stagger
Farther than an Arab’s Dagger …

And Alakara isn’t bothered about it,
Wherefore many think it is her dug pit!

Ficus Fracas

two ficus trees…

   fighting… a full-bore fracas…

     one malled the other



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   After reading Jeff Kyser's 
   masterpiece, 'Mall Tree,' I
   was singularly inspired...

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