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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.
Explorer (16a)
EXPLORER
Mystery
Childhood favourite
Whyspering
In my ear
Fairy stories beckoned me
Hinting at ingress
Looking here
Looking there of course
(OCD)
Each stone turned
Discovering vibrant life
Cloaking … Mystery
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Katzenjammer (14b)
KATZENJAMMER
Cats abound
Frolic unbounded
Wonderland’s
Schrödinger’s
Let us keep an open mind
Mysteriously
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