Michael Edwards

POETICAL OUTTAKES

 

 

POETICAL OUTTAKES

 

With discomposed demeanour

Relieved her inexpressibly.

Words unsaid by strangers

Reflections of chance resemblance

He considered himself elite

And deep within her reticule

A cold ascetic face

Fortified by principle

Spires of stately fanes stand proud

from the depths of discomposition

with thoughts like peeling acer bark

With hastening tread

Every day a raging storm

But soon the calm must come

In airless rooms with windows shut

like melting crowns that fall on fire

in cold green swell the water ran

with water weary chilled blue eyes

in self consuming vanity

Where idols shared a temple tall

The lonely path weaves down

A puff white mane

The world is still the world

Unfortified by principle

A man denied of books