A Beggar's Song (+3)

My last attempt

to circle the square

anger takes the throne

Isolated

no longer to share

servitude alone

Wandering unsure

things left unsaid

words to disappear

Into the dark

deserted forlorn 

heightening my fear

The ladder broken

every rung

unable now to climb

Direction gone

a beggar’s song

—with nothing left to find

(Valley Forge Pennsylvania: October, 2020)

Minor Plus Est

Happy is he

who is content with the least

Whose hunger is sated

in famine he feasts

Happy is he

who begins at the end

And ends at the beginning

—his fortune to bend

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)

Sensus

The Veil of Perception,

what lies beyond

Our senses and memory,

all time put upon

Lying within

or lying without

Inherent by nature,

shadowed by doubt

Primary function,

will scholars proclaim

But second to that

—our reasonings change

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: October, 2020)

In Voltaire's Shadow

Doubt is a troublesome occupation

—certainty merely absurd

(Radnor Pennsylvania: October, 2020)