Hello friends,
Five poems this week. Enjoy! (And if you do, please consider supporting my work by purchasing my latest book The Robots of Babylon.)
GARDEN OF EDEN (Palindrome)
I made, in Eden, a cradle.
Here we were held.
Arcane, denied am I.FALL OF MAN (Anagram-Snowball)
A.,
as
sad,
said
ideas
raised
despair.
Paradise,
appraised,
disappears.LABYRINTH, pt.1 (Palindrome)
Daedalus, nine pass….
I, Minos, add a son.
I miss a peninsula, dead.LABYRINTH, pt.2 (Palindrome)
Spool's end: Air, an isle….
Vary. A way ravels in
Ariadne’s loops.LOVE SONNET OF THE CAUTIOUS ROMANTIC
If I could bring the Moon to you,
I wouldn’t. No; it’s needed where
it is. If I could walk us through
the corridors of time and share
a kiss with you in ancient rains,
afloat on some Edenic lake,
I think that, given causal chains,
the trip would be a big mistake.
If I could gather every rose
and from their petals weave a bed,
I’d feel the ecosystem’s woes
upon me, and I’d count the dead....
But poems are, my love, inert.
I’ll give you this — this cannot hurt.