A MINISTER RETIRES :
SOLILOQUY
I arise as infant Phoenix
from Akasha ashes
counterparts frozen
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration
......
What prayers do I say
At the catacombs
This morning of high dew?
And who shall burn a taper
Behind me
To ease the ghost-darkness of a
Frightened city?
What stanza of the paternoster
......
Clutching at this eleventh hour
Cries becloud the confused, ailing air;
Genuflections are common without songs of praise,
The tongue having been glued to the palate . . . .
Dis-virgining verdant forests’ footpaths,
The evenings aglow with billowing tongues of
Fire shimmering at the foot of the
Hombori.
......
Half the way I tangled to her
More or less I loved her, and should be
Oh, petty much it were a dream
It was much to see heart and be
A lover to lover kind.
The road, taken in, not so short
The rose, withered, not so faulty
A mind, loving, not so fragile
A pretty grace, a pretty one
......
I Am
I was
I changed
became
I am
I further change
(nothing's strange)
into the future
......
Clutching at this eleventh hour
Cries becloud the confused, ailing air;
Genuflections are common without songs of praise,
The tongue having been glued to the palate . . . .
Dis-virgining verdant forests’ footpaths,
The evenings aglow with billowing tongues of
Fire shimmering at the foot of the
Hombori.
......
What prayers do I say
At the catacombs
This morning of high dew?
And who shall burn a taper
Behind me
To ease the ghost-darkness of a
Frightened city?
What stanza of the paternoster
......
A MINISTER RETIRES :
SOLILOQUY
I arise as infant Phoenix
from Akasha ashes
counterparts frozen
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration
......
I Am
I was
I changed
became
I am
I further change
(nothing's strange)
into the future
......
Half the way I tangled to her
More or less I loved her, and should be
Oh, petty much it were a dream
It was much to see heart and be
A lover to lover kind.
The road, taken in, not so short
The rose, withered, not so faulty
A mind, loving, not so fragile
A pretty grace, a pretty one
......