Lunar Possession

Vociferous stranger, vacant you swoon

Dispersing anathemas with each step

Whence meters find their distant promenade

Benumbed sentry traipsing beneath grey moons

With the countenance of dark secrets kept

As rays lower upon your unmarked grave

The furtive glance secretes visions of ruin

As spindrifts thrash forth their echoic stet

Forever haunting the taciturn stave

Hunger asphyxiates the sated tune

While the parched arrhythmia slowly wept

For the heart knows what the enemy craves

The boy shook, as the thirsting neon crept

Whereas a mother’s love, prayed while he slept

  

 Over at D'Verse, Sam presents us a unique twist to the sonnet form for this week's Formforall, something he calls the Trireme Sonnet.  It was certainly fun putting this piece together, think I wound up deviating from the pentameter a bit in places, but other than that, followed the 10 syllable, ABC-ABC-ABC-ABC-(Choice of AA, BB, or CC Heroic Couplet).  I definitely recommend you check out his article and see what the poets of D'Verse came up with. Cheers!

The Good Father

Door Knobs clog, puttering with-

Explanation- by making stories

Sadness- with clever quips

Corduroy jacks can’t life the spare

A circle of valor sleeps

As all things mount

Some visit the well

Some transform in else

Many tears will fall

This you cannot defend-

But from sorrow or Joy-

That’s a game for playing

Jagged symbols clash in sync

Burdening the world you try to bring

Hems of meanings strewn

Seeds sown often listen to others

Sometimes it’s better to be a friend

But mainly you should be a father

The claustrophobia of sentinels

The silent echoes in the night

The worried welts we build inside

All worth the price of a smiling face

A good father will provide

At all costs, thinking only as to how

In a land condemned by greed

In a land alive with infamy

A good father will protect his own

A good father will protect his home.