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Unfathomable Muse: Four By Six/Acrostic
UNFATHOMABLE MUSE
Delicate dancing sylph
Elegant fairy queen
Everlasting fount of
Poem after poem
Cogs Sans Cognition: Shadorma
COGS SANS COGNITION
Unaware
Within and without
Mystery
Surrounds us
One thing leads to another
They call it karma
Strider: Reposted
STRIDER
Striding on through the world
Drawing it close around her
Like a pair of old slippers
Worn smooth by tireless pacing
Striding on through the world
Drawing it close around her
Like a comforting cloak
Proffered in a time of poverty
Striding on through the world
Drawing it close around her
Like a stuttering lighthouse
Glimpsed at the edge of revelation
Striding on through the world
Drawing it close around her
Like an envelope addressed to the future
Scrawled in an unknown tongue
Interlocutory Discourse
INTERLOCUTORY DISCOURSE
I inform you you’ve a
Quite unique way of
Employing words
But then you are
Probably aware
Of that and so
My own words?
Superfluous?
Maybe not?
Who knows?
Not you?
Nor I?
Pride And Prejudice: Tanka
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
They said not a word
For not a word need be said
A cloud of silence
Always accompanied them
Others looked on bathed in awe
Vinery: Shadorma
VINERY
So tangled
So densely woven
This vinescape
Hard to tell
Whether made up of many
Or of only one
Cheep Talk
CHEEP TALK
Talk is cheap
Talk is common
Chitchatting away
Of this and that
Speaks of sunsets
Of suns going down
When it’s backs turning
Obeying a planetary spin
I’ll use plurals here
As each of us
Has a sun
We madmen
Madwomen we
In our hidden hearts
Live in our own dreamtimes
Encircling our own central axis
Round which this outer earth and sun
(With a moon as a loony sidekick)
From birth to death revolve
In truth the sun never sets
Nor does the earth
For that matter
Simply spins
And spins
Metamorphic metaphor
Cloaking the untaught truth
It doesn’t matter if you don’t mind
Take a break for a moment and pause
At the crux – the axis – of all of this and that
Here-I-am & now-is-now & I-am-I & this-is-it
Now where is our next breath coming from?
How do we know that? Actually we don’t
We are an incomprehensible miracle
Given the grace of time to seek
While stars and planets spin
Life As A Quiz Show
LIFE AS A QUIZ SHOW
And the answer is …
Sorry, you ran out of time.
Next contestant please.
Ben Naga 