Fay Slimm.

His Star.

His Star.

I chased this evening
evening\'s fade in sunset clouds,
silver tin-foiled filigree
tied to grey-as-granite mountains.

Tinted skirts of hazy
daytime\'s late farewell lit night\'s
ballooning moon parade
displayed as fire on quiet shoreline.

Invasive scarlet-swathe
hued day\'s best forgotten noon
when darker stronghold\'s rain
rolled dust into cascades of gloom.

Drifted with waning sky\'s
azure came memory\'s beams,
pain-shot their spotlighting
shadows still haunting my dreams.

Yet I chased tonight
night\'s demons away by love\'s
recall when I saw brighter
his star winking at me from above.

 

 

We of the motely crowd

rush around life,

gagged and sightless,

suffused with knots 

of ambitious 

callings yet

stirred by nothing

of more import

than prevarication.

 

We of the duty-bound

many should

shake off the cloy,

strip habits 

of clock-watching that

frustrated by 

hearing only the ego

thinks narrow

a shield behind which 

lies respectability.

 

 

We of the handed down

attitude toward

ordered lifestyle should

take a  leap

through the structured 

see that time 

is for taking to reshape

pride in playing

and thus gain resilience.

 

We of the flagrant belief

in self-freedom

should try it and see.