Older poems; (2005 - 2014); these rhoems led the way
Chain lightning
I wish to wake up to a world that knows of sanity
A world in which mankind will know of its humanity
It streaks across the Earth to leave its brand
Chain lightning firing sparks across the land
I have no need to watch the spinal fire
Rescind humanity from state so dire
I'd just as soon vacation in the void
Returning once the heart has been deployed
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Tapestry
To comprehend the threads within the weave
Look back on three millennia, retrieve
The essence of our being's hopes and fears
Threaded through the lives and all the years
Took a toll on me I've yet to face
As heart begins the final leg of race
I've wrestled with the marching grip of time
T fought the beast in words of prose and rhyme
Another life in which the heart transcends
From days of youth, in which the loving mends
It should be coming closer as we march
Past the dimwit stage of pain and parch
As love's fulfilled in youth, the final stage
Humanity, at last, will come of age
So many things that still remain unknown
That only can become, to human, blown
Into a shape that fills and touches sky
Providing riddles' answers on the fly
That burst of incandescence that did burn
Throughout my life, but broke at every turn
Confronting, as I did, the lonely fact
That I was not insane but, still, in tact
While, to the world at large, it seemed I cracked
No one there, at all, that had my back
Ahhh, but now, I see it clear as day
That rhoetry will have the final say
A toll in which a loving life can play
No need remains to hear the jackass bray
As words begin to flow with clarity
As man, with woman, reaches parity
Sanity can spread throughout the race
At last, that I can hold my love in place
As love, at last, is taken for a ride
Sanity can spread both far and wide
To every corner of both time and space
Within the bones of all the human race
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It staggers me to realize, at this juncture, that my existence has been both a blessing and a curse - for me. To realize, while everyone else is blithering along, that there is something deeply wrong with humanity that can be corrected with such little trouble, to be the only one that has a penchant for clarity, to realize there is only one riddle that counts, is both a burden and an unmatched joy that causes revel like no other. The bane of men must be confronted for humanity to gain its sanity. Until then, the monkey remains in charge, braying like a jackass.
That the revel had to be savoured alone in this lifetime is the same. A blessing and a curse. Yin and Yang comes to mind.
(pre)Humanity has misunderstood everything.
I am finally very happy to say I am not part of the herd in any way. It's always been true but it has been much more difficult for me to accept until now.
I don't think this rhoem will require mods.
This is actually the second rhoem titled Tapestry.
Songs of life
10/22/2019
As I look across all time
These lifetimes spent in thought and rhyme
Amazing as it seems
Between the toils of nonsense spent
Away from spoilage mankind lent
There always were the dreams
A sense, a need, a way to cope
A song of life, a note of hope
Resplendently, it gleams
Crescendoes grow within the song
A crest sustaining lifetime long
Awashing heart in streams
Of coolness of a springtime breeze
And colours of the autumn leaves
In sunlight's golden beams
I'll dream of it until the time
The way is lit in words of rhyme
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Elucidation
It really helps the revel magnify
Extends the explanations to supply
The simplest of the notions to comply
To revel on the Earth and in the Sky
The thoughts of two begin to multiply
Elucidation from the couple's sigh
The Travelers √
Once the day was folded up and, then, been put away
The travelers toasted final cup ‘fore ambling on their way
The weary Dream donned raincoat pale, the darkened road to face
Staid Principles' so well-worn cloak was slowly shrugged in place
They trudged along together then, at quite a lonely pace
Both broken rhyme and deepest ruts were oft the dismal case
Along the darkened road there stood gloom’s shadows here and there
The massive mound of rocks looked vaguely like a well-worn care
A tree of disappointment seemed like end of all that's known
They slowly moved together as they heard a ticking moan
But, what was that they saw ahead, a traveler on the road
They brightened just a little, then, for good he seemed to bode
Ah, bright Heart, in tattered tails, you comfort all you see
The aching back of Principles from bitter drudgery
And saddened eyes of tired Dreams that sheltered from the art
Did lose their pain, forevermore, in presence of great Heart
The puzzle √
Each day I pull the puzzle out to see just where I stand
Solve the riddle, find the clue, see where the pieces land
And, in one day, there's so much change, to take the breath away
I spend a day and brightened night, to find the piece to play
Curiouser and curiouser, I find it all to be
For from the heart and out the mouth, remains of what I see
Some days, the whole thing seems so clear, all answers to decree
And, then, a poof, they pop their top and all is gone, they flee
I scratch my head, once more, in thought, it's there and, then, it's gone
And, what of all that silliness I danced upon the lawn
There may be more within that dance than all those thoughts so deep
So, skip that silly pensive brow before it makes me weep
The pitter-patter of the rain, the soft brush of the snow
Its simple answers hold more truth than I shall ever know
This was written before the puzzle made any sense. I was so close at the time, though. It remains true that the dance upon the lawn is what it is all about, but the puzzle remains foremost until is is solved ... by all of humanity.
Everlast √
1976
Stray stars streak through my mind and pass
With soft impressions, Everlast
Unto my mind is given thought
On all that is and all that's wrought
The periled depths both new and bold
So fill my mind to end the cold
To take the chill from unknown paths
Gain summer's warmth in Everlast
And, as my spring accepts its winter
The mind shall know and not be hindered
Just as my future routs the past
I’m off, again, to Everlast
A golden, open breezy field
Within the dream, my fate is sealed
Oh, Lady Luck, you're cards, don't deal
For Luck is not the sword I wield
Defense is open-armed, I clasp
All patience gained from Everlast
Fantastic as this thought may be
I now, and well, can clearly see
'Tis but a part that’s but a start
For, now, alone, so stands the Art
Away, again, so neighs the heart
Bright wondrous fields that never part
For all that’s seen and all that’s past
Is only part of Everlast
This was written so long ago. I was still in school. It feels like a different millennium and it is. First rhoem.
A fairy tale √
The mind, it slowly shatters
As the dawn blows thoughts my way
I sweep up all that scatters
Like the jacks from someone's play
Those lives and all the epic tales, patina on my heart
Stars and moons and all else pales, replaying their own part
Are all those lives, a fairy tale to keep my soul afloat
It's just a guess, 'twill never fail, as song surpasses note
But, one thing that is surely true
I'm wrapped around with love of you
All lives, from start to blessed end
The will for that will always mend
And will's foray will never bend
Our heart and soul, the final blend
Realms of amazement √
My mind is shattered by the times and by the tales I've told
Through ages and the augury, deep shards these eyes behold
My breath, I catch, from time to time, as all goes whizzing by
With blinding light I see so clearly, then, so nearly fly
Transcendent, now, the will as one, the strength is of the heart
The trials come, the tests won't end, if life you still take part
A juggernaut, I think myself, I too, go whizzing by
The blinding light, I see so clear, sometimes I nearly fly
As I think about it, pretty much all of these rhoems were written before I had a clue what was wrong. I was still searching. I'm impressed! I really think the rhoetry somehow led to solving the riddle. It's just weird. Wish I knew how and why that would work. Now that I think about it, it's like one has to find a way to jump past the paradigms (nonsense or not; maybe they're all nonsense).
Transform √
The power in all beauty and the honour of the soul
Will build the life to something well beyond the keeper's toll
Fling out the hand and toss a spell to raise the life at stakes
The clouds upon horizon speak and wonders what it wakes
The power in the Traveler will stand the test of time
So deep within the magic to transform the world in rhyme
As steps of thunder rock the world to bring the final fates
Stretch out the willing hand to her, the heart no longer waits
No tolerance is left here for the shirking and denial
It’s time to rise above the past, transform this lifeless trial
The hand has been out there for a very, very long time.