Have you tried to buy iodine.? In your local
Chemist or drugstore at some contemorary
Time.? Its today not so obtainable as it was in my youth, when it was most plentifull, thats my clear memory in truth.'
Is it because its being poured up in the skies? To cause extreme weather.? For
that would explain much to my mind if
Industrial quantitys are being so used.? It
Would explain much..That is falling that
Is giving many the blues.?
The winds come to me from the fields of sleep
Where dreams are blown out of the shallow hills
And I, in my solitude, do rejoice
As I take my comfort within their voice
Which visits me as the cool evening stills
And is rinsed by raindrops that mildly weep.
Gone is the rainbow and tincture of day
Lost in the clouds as they swim in the air
And I, in my quietness, drift afar
By merely the light of a silver'd star
Where only the souls of the sleeping dare
Seek a place that is distant - far away.
In the deepest of night, the dead of dark,
When the silent shadows hide from the light
For, shadows are secrets mellowed by age
And, ages are timeless, robbed of their rage,
And rage is bewildered, lost in the night
Yet, still sighs its echo deafingly stark.
Where is the morning to dazzle and glow ?
Where are the sunbeams to fever the heart ?
Yes! morning will come, as sure as the winds,
When the grey of the dusk slowly rescinds
And the fields of sleep will fleetly depart
And the dreams of the hills aimlessly go.
Let love light
Pulse and sight
Let joy stream
Craft and dream
Let peace stay
Dance and way
Let bold poise
Sign and voice
Let words move
Charm and groove
Let heart know
Fate and show
Let touch feel
Way and will
Let prize fit
Touch and wit
Let charm cheer
Now and here
Leon Enriquez
18 November 2018
Singapore
Influx of pain in a raw cut,
Open skin torn apart by slash;
Deep broken grain with bloody glut,
Impact here worn by splintered clash;
Nerves carry feel of wounded strains,
Extreme hurts hurl a burning surge.
Taut iodine spills on dead cells plain,
Ignites in swirls where pain screams merge;
Next flesh debris in oozing squeeze,
Calm clout can match blood waves that clot;
True tact set free in cooling breeze,
Use first aid catch to relieve lot;
Refresh and join the flesh wound here,
Etch healing point that transcends tears.
Leon Enriquez
20 January 2016
Singapore
Figment
Fragment
Fracture
Deep cut
Blood stains
Pain punctures
Iodine bites
Torn flesh
Scar tissue
Iodine ooze
Blood dyed
Strange tint
Wander
Broken
Wonder
Puncture
Poignant
Authentic
Pain hurls
Blood clots
Healing begins
Leon Enriquez
27 Apr 2014
Singapore
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