Funny times
27 January 2016
Funny times
Playing hide and seek
You cooked rhymes
Without salt
Neither of us was at fault
For wasted banquets
Spent morrows
Breakfast on the grass
Buttered bread
Goes to head
And wastes energy in class
Learning how to cheat
I don’t judge
Merely spectator
Of your taunts
Unending
Invisible specter haunts
Breaking the journey
Now we know
Truth a dictator
Merely points
Surrender
No other options arise
Naked casts the lies
Fishing rod
An expedition
To North pole
Ice clad holes
Looking through frigid waters
Bears much decorum
We eat green
End harvests yellow
Worn out scythes
Cutting rough
Jagged edges the result
Of years of neglect
The lost sheen
Of Heart ne’er mellow
Closed with time
The crusts hard
It would take more than a bard
To liquefy rust
The songs shared
Lost inner ramblings
Of tepid heart
The ways cold
Fortune favours but the bold
Scared hares learn respect
Funny times
Your expectations
Coughing mirth
Mind roams Earth
We leave on journeys of sight
The other a wall
Angels fall
Their wings clipped neatly
Bundled prize
Winners tired
All the things that I admired
I barely recall
We knew not
Time spins arrogance
Huddled groups
Dissect frogs
Princes relic of the past
Fairytales don’t last
Titles wrought
Imagination a curse
Misspelled dreams
Broken screams
Crossing rivers between logs
Hush baby don’t fly
I lost them
Twice forgotten wings
Changelings
Morphing cast
Theatrical face aghast
He prays for my soul
Religion
Malice reservoir
Castration
Damnation
Everything against the Love
Head bent weep o Dove
You spell wrong
God takes not an A
Yet you goad
Lost cattle
Against the odds I battle
Heart lost in dark road
This testing
I know it was honed
Yet I fail
Yet I wail
It cost my faith yet I hail
Your endless glory
Reading of the poem:
Voyage – Youn Sun Nah
Into Dust – Youn Sun Nah
Consider me gone – Youn Sun Nah
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