Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Teachers From Ancient Realms


A smoke signal,
A message sent,
Blacks, whites, merge to gray
Telling the truth in creative ways

Chisel, stone,
Carved symbols upon wall,
Picture told, a lifetime sprawled
To look back now,
Modernity can’t but stop but be in awe
Of how the primitives taught their laws

Oral stories
Drift like dreams
Pronounced from lips
Transforming ears…
              …And where’ve they gone?
                       Where I ask?
Have they gone…why are they not with us anymore?

Thursday, October 18, 2012

A Consortium of Grecian Time





Soldier, poet, dramatist
Father of tragedy
You
Changed the
Way we smile.

Mathematical in its
Elements.
Deductions and axiomatic
Postulating. A
Geometry known not prior to
That parallel
Point,
But one
Line may
Pass
Through

Biblical in breadth
A diaspora’s been met
Sowing seeds
Distant far

As close as man
may be
To apotheosis
We’ve yet to see

Classic beauty
Sunbelt crush
Serenity of a
Steadied poise
Lost to
the
Collapsing praise
 Time knows not
What values one puts upon the individual ray, forgetting
About the center’s bubbling blaze—

Throughout history
Man has pushed forgiveness
To its gravest ends
Testing what
Could be rationally
 Abused before
Hollowed ends
Accrue

Humanity is a contrast economy
We strive to breathe descending views
what it means to understand
the opposing schools
Recklessly
We’ve pandered
For centuries long
Creating pacts and promises
Have been
Predicated upon deceitful hues
That wither, wither, fray

We have
Our communion
And yet, we have our
Betrayals, and they are
 felt ever the more
inherent, when composed unto the flesh, and
     unrestrained when composure only lives
yet, we lived,
              albeit in frenzy’s first breath taken,
amongst the soul,
 of the undisciplined, molting clear those spectrums
oft abused

By timelines, we learn to merge into one, into
The Blur that forges a definition, into
That which has yet begun…

from the sun, to the sea and the sky to the tide
No matter the context, in spite of the ride, the lengths and shackles yet unfettered about malnutrition’s feet, deposed by all the deposits of those underachievement’s we’ve ever learned to make… and yet we’ve always understood how to take aim, and that has to count for something, right?

Mankind has ever found itself as the child of a God, how does one live up to that shadow?

So, just to cast their own beacon of distinction, we often abuse the grace of our father, we often stray from the generous path plotted fresh for our soles alone, and instead of living in luxury’s shadow, we chose to bathe in the cold showers of absence, where we so eagerly became
The makers of rain, irrational beasts
Amidst the moistened shade

And yet…
We meditate
Upon mentally
Equipping ourselves
To deal with what comes our way

To follow nature
As does the stem
To its thorn, is
To disseminate
Good and bad
From the indifferences
In-between the dark and the gray

Run, ragged tryin’
     To catch grace upon wings once craved
But these were not intended for

Man. Bull. Lion
     Egg. Coiled—
Cracking, splits
Ticking, cloaks we mask
Through beards untamed.
until
Hands cease  from cross
Again

Falling
Deep
Into
A rece
Ssion we
Simply can
Not return
To the grammar that’s been
Given to us upon
Our births…and we run
         Away, frightened by the photo albums taken from our father’s early days, brimstone, we’ve seen it in his eyes, we’ve smelt it upon his breath, touched it on his hands

Yet, because of our irrational fear
We forget
Warmth is not reserved for hell alone
And
No matter
What we’ve done
Our father
Will
Always
Accept us back

Warmly, in his arms,
The truth can never be rescinded
Not by man or any other beasts we may encounter for advice
Yet, Just that alone, makes one wonders
Why do we seek advice from outside sources
When the wealth of the world exists within our father





Monday, April 30, 2012

A Once Young King to Be


Squinting
from apologies 
sentience sordidly
twizzled about
like cotton candy 

or perhaps taffy
is more appropriate here

In the paramount of spires
qualms barb
in ribbons and lace

Perfunctorily dancing
the evenings away

All for the salivary pleasures
of a very, very evil man…

Alice sings
about a once young
king to be
And
And
And…

For Open Link Monday at Real Toads

Monday, June 20, 2011

Antique Ink


Rags of antiquity
Brown stained fragments
Of some other time, some other world
Genuflecting, in some ancient’s honor
As calligraphy embraces descendant’s hand

Tattered, torn in parts,
A different way of life it was,
Musty scent from where the aged papers spent,
Its vagrant years,
As forgotten words,
Suppressed through neglect,
A voice repressed,
By motions since,

Yet, today, this afternoon,
Reunion from a world unknown,
Page upon page, word upon word,
I noticed the way you crossed your t’s & the positioning of the dot above your I’s; then realized your ink lay in a way, not too estranged from mine. 

And through the dusty attic window, outdated for an era or so, must be back in vogue, as I firmly recall, seeing such a design, prominently displayed, on the showroom floor, shifting clouds could have been seen, if my eyes ever chose to rest, if they had averted from this diary that I read.

I noticed, no matter how much things have altered, when it comes to matters of the heart, when it comes to love, not much has changed at all.

And it’s eerie for me,
To find you and I,
Are strangely connected,
In ways,
Apart from DNA.