2/13/17

The Light Bringer

After the Chinese Lantern Festival

came the bright eerie star

on the southwestern horizon

An Omen

through the empty windswept windows

of the old haunted house

A little spice

The Sand Fire

7/25

The Blood Orange Sunset

through the falling ash

In the Morning

a clear blue sky

and the smell of burning newspaper

In the Dead Zone

the embers burn silently on

like some passageway

into Hell

Persuasion and Force

The Sun scorches the leaves of the Oak
a dry reddish brown
in September
amid the wicked spectre
of the long drought

But the cynical old oak, does not shed his leaves
But waits, for the bitter passing sprinkles
of a frail mid winter storm
to shed his sylvan magic 

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

The Great Dragon
walks in the Park

In the early dark
of the December night

Between the glowing Santa`s Sleigh
and the young couples
huddled round the Nativity.

Glory to God in the Highest
And Peace on Earth
To all men of goodwill

But to the Great Horned Owl
perched in all his worldly wisdom
upon the threshold of the stars

And the wary little mouse
darting about in the gleanings of the neighborhood pumpkin patch

Is it Christmas

And the equestrian Constable
in a rare
Evening watch

The shy vagrant
who hides a bottle
from the streetlamp

The lonely and afraid commuter
wary of false hopes
and the high price of holiday tangerines

For even the darkness of Space
has Laws
and Mao Zedong
Courts

Christmas proves Man can be good
If only for a day

A couple of weeks

Until Fat Tuesday ?



And the Great Dragon
came alight
like a Four Story tall Christmas Tree.


12/12/14

Rich Men Can`t Limbo

On the Allied Coalition against The Islamic State of The Levant in Iraq and Syria.
Or White Men Can`t Limbo


Alas, The World proved too big for even Alexander.
Who was sent by Osiris
to dwell in lands, beyond the Black Sea.

Certainly the medicinal benefits of Opium
would have reached Gravenstein Palace
in due time;
But the thought of being Shown Up by the Portuguese,
was simply too much.

So our Fearless Leader
Who`s job it is, to conjure
Manifest Destiny,
into Joy To The World
and Peace On Earth
To All Men Of Good Will.

So we don`t argue
Religion
or Politics
over Thanksgiving Dinner,
And the Issues
and Concerns
That beset Humanity;
Are settled with same hypocrisy
of Ethics,
As these
Despots.
these Dictators,

Themselves.

Vincent Van Gogh`s Wheat Fields near Arles

The Great Dragon

lies in a field of Golden Grain

bathing in the late afternoon sunshine

like an Ancient Persian Treasure.

Anticipating the first Full Moon

of Autumn

to rise at Perigee

in September

Suspended densely in the clockwork spectacle

like a supernatural Mother of Pearl 

The Turning World

Is Perfect

as an Ingoldsby Legend

or a Grimm’s Fairy Tale. 


September 7, 2014