The Jester Laughs (+10)

The ‘Deceivers Of Time

 Masquerade Ball’

 

Invitees file past

 

Yesterday in drag,

 Tomorrow disguised

 

Today—the Present’s mask

 

Memories hide

 in the shadows of hope

 

All wishes dancing fast

 

Until the Jester laughs

 as the final waltz ends

 

Deception to the last

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

 

The True Cost

 

Its answer never welcome…

   “The Price Of Joy Is Pain”

 

The question forever mired

   —in perpetual disdain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

Unmade

 

Prose…

Has a room built in

For the reader

To crawl inside

And sleep

 

Maybe

More than one room,

Unmaking all beds

That the Poet

  —has so carefully made

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

Words Of Hope

 

Left on their own,

  my words turn to prayer

 

Renewing my faith

  —confirming You’re there

 

Spoken aloud,

  they lodge in my soul

 

Warming my heart

  —and keeping me whole

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

     'From The Book Of Prayers'

 

 

A Tinge Of Lilac

 

My window opens wider,

  as my focus narrows down

 

The words are now much richer

  than what I used to think profound

 

The light brings joy and substance,

  filling corners deep and closed

 

Its breezes tinged with lilac

  —all negatives exposed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

Solus Ipse

 

Not like her,

And

Not like him,

And

Not like you

  —I write!

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

 

The Sun Will Come Up

 

 The warts are ugly,

  the wrinkles deep

 

The flesh now sagging,

  deprived of sleep

 

The eyesight failing,

   with hearing gone

 

But words still call

  —from tomorrow’s song

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

   'From The Book Of Prayers'

 

 

In Memoriam

 

His funeral

  unattended

 

His pallbearers

  the written word

 

His gravesite

  an ashen memory

 

His legacy

  —in futures heard

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

 

From The Darkness

 

The only sin uncommitted

  —is the one unknown

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

Licentia

 

A strange thing happens

  once you’re as old as your heroes

 

The mystery less enchanting,

  the romance nearly gone

 

A stranger thing happens

  when you outlive your heroes

 

The nuances shouting boldly

   —permission now won

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

 

Timeless Attraction

 

The gravity of words,

 their truth pulls together

 

A force field of enlightenment

 —beyond the continuum of time

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

 

1 + 1 = 1

 

Superpositioned,

  truth here and truth there

 

Unmeasured duality,

 a mirror contraire

 

Whose message lies distant,

 whose message lies near

 

A Siamese phantom,

 both fronts facing rear

 

The sublime contradiction,

  one plus one equals one

 

Their natures poetic

 —each truth zero sum

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)