Four Poems

Hello friends,

This week, four poems from four different constraints… Enjoy! And if you do, please consider buying my new chapbook, just out this month: Return of… the Robots of Babylon.

This first poem is an “alternating bivocalism” — that is, it uses only two vowels (i and o), which alternate throughout the poem:

IO

Long I trod, 
dislodging rocks,
blind on Io’s wilds....

Now, I hold
this cosmic god;
this fossil of iron;
this lost lion
with torn wings:

Now,
I hold
Io’s sphinx.

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OBLIVION (Triolet)

Oblivion will come for you.
It doesn’t even know your name,
nor care to know. All debts accrue:
oblivion will come for you.
Indifferent is the solemn dew
that forms to quell the mortal flame.
Oblivion will come for you;
it doesn’t even know your name.

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MOON REFLECTED IN A WATERFALL (Palindrome)

A null lore, now:
One lost,
solo slab,
benign
in a waxing of pity....
     A rapid,
     I dip a ray,
     tip fog —
     nix a waning,
     in ebb, also —
          lost,
          sole,
          now one,
          roll Luna....

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GHOST STORY (Anagram-Haiku)

I find your strange ghost
out in the fog, in dry grass —
Grief haunts dying roots.