The Party

The Party Everyone desiring to glisten as human stars to soar across vast skies hasty to explore or content to gaze was invited… It would start at dawn. Then roll on and on… into thrilling darkness. All night long with dance, with song. Fabulous exotic food plus sweet or bitter drink experimentally combined flowing potent … More The Party

Cocooned

Cocooned (Rafael Alberti – Deception – Brevity) Cocoons silken spun. Worms weaving ‘webs’ promising ‘freedom’ won? by sons’ and daughters’ red shed over threads woven ‘wrong’ said in darkness spread; misled in twilight to fight fiercely for: “In God We Trust”. In God We Trust? In a ‘god’ we must trust continuing a ruse centuries … More Cocooned

A Happy Heart

A happy heart starts with a smile given freely it can travel for miles on end across this globe spinning endlessly depending upon gratitude from a receiver who then sends another smile to another befriend. A happy heart imparts profundity tactfully when asked or necessarily tasked to lovingly correct or protect one from ‘taking a … More A Happy Heart

Inner Peace

Inner Peace Soil crackled, dried burnt to black underneath layered debris of grief after escalating leafy spins of menopausal stalls due from familial cocoons spun twilight to darkening moons; none, no more glowing stars or suns once glistening reverential eyes now plagued by memories of agitated skies performed in an assortment of screened-off views; hindered … More Inner Peace

Death On a Torture

‘Death On a Torture Stake’ (contest Poem on the Trinity – Ronald A William) I am convinced; “know for a certainty that God made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you executed on a stake.” Acts 2:36. Yes, “they shouted: “To the stake with him! To the stake with him!” Pilate said to … More Death On a Torture

Old Vines

Old Vines Hanging limply on the vine with curling leaves to dryness inclined when once vibrant of heart, of mind, as brilliant berries bursting with juices, now eyes revert inwards. Or nostalgically of lost behind. How do we: “Strengthen the hands that hang down and the feeble knees” when anger and violence in the air … More Old Vines