Monday, December 12, 2016

Poem #39 Who Spilled Life?

Cleansed washed among haven
Black and grim not shaved
Man with a wild faithless lark
Heard sing before lonesome day
Mighty wind coarse bare
First weep my secret
Sprite drown by dark stones
of life’s heavy medicine
Years rotted dreams, and bore
But strange face and names
world now awake with a dizzy brain
Misery the thick roof the trodden year
Stones still covered in their footprints
Of the elevated right handed red glove
it strings wound to woman wrists
but guided not by it.
Lying there dead man called
O God, My head my heart my soul
Groaned but twice a guilty man
Nothing lifeless yet feared
Who spilled life
Guilt drew round pledges
Of Stronger temptation
A Horrid hint at yearning
Impulse the slave of one’s thought
Buried deep within our own glory
Burned upon our stakes
Loves flesh delicate so easy does it bleed
Fathoms of our fancy armed by silly words
And who is to save them
The gloomy shrubby chumps of dreams
O stage desolate of players
A board checkered painted white
The enemy banished by so simple words
This had been our battle
Words still old unchanged
One grows weary of them
Archaic ideals to some aesthetic ideal
Draped behind purple curtains
Vanished leisure of plain whisper
That so pleases one
To the fountains of dry words
Of dull useless study
Shatter words of principle
That none seems to hold

In the house of our woe.

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