I am here,
Though not consciously invited:
Red-ghost guest
At year’s-end party.
I quicken mascaraed pulses,
I am here,
Though not consciously invited:
Red-ghost guest
At year’s-end party.
I quicken mascaraed pulses,
From the frozen-gutter pulpit
Outside the chase-road Church
Of the Old Blow-Down Birch
The animated, grizzled-curate crow
Rants and roars at all
The passing traffic,
Will there be more change
After the last change?
Will it be worth the having?
Will it show the real value
Of what we had?
Of what we gave away,
What, perhaps we lost?
Who will wear the target shirt
Now my time has been served?
Will they wear it
With strength, abandon
And casual pride
The way I wished I had
When I had the chance?
She stretches long slim limbs
Across the paths
Tipped by fingers wind-stirred fingers.
December-sun blued catkins
Sat back earlier today to watch some mind-numbing pre-Christmas telly. Seemed to be a good idea after some usual seasonal stress.
But what I settled on, after some channel hopping was disturbing, wonder-filled and astounding, even though I had missed the first half an hour or so.
A documentary film entitled Waste Land.
Filigree testament to craftsman skills
These tiny perfect angels,
Suspended on gossamer, begin
To turn careful candle-driven carousel:
Seeming to hover on fine
Heaven- in-a-moon moth wings,
Bearing gifts:
Morality, Humility,
Law and Education.
Spinning points of a
Holy Season Compass
They delicately describe
The circles of life.
One holds out a candle:
Light into the Dark World,
Another a book:
Different enlightenment:
A third, almost-partner,
A tree: beneficent nature
The last … ?
Turning its back to my eyes
I am momentarily unable to see
What it will offer mankind –
… yet I notice on it’s perfect back
Unmistakable reflections
Of jealous Satan’s beckoning flames.
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