Haiku
impacted too long
purgatives ineffective
requiem past due
dignity decayed
Ichabod! vain glory gone
dig a hasty grave
something new will rise
succeeding rotting failure
winds of change have blown
Perceptions of reality,
Steeped in rife absurdity,
Oppression cloaked in courtesy
Sustaining mental scarcity…
Beholding life’s full platter
Delusions drop and shatter
Distractions pale and scatter
And shortly cease to matter…
Despairing, awhile, what dissipates,
But anguish soon evaporates,
And barrenness accentuates,
The providence of fates…
Realms, spheres; a daybreak zone,
Vistas hence unknown,
Where some progress alone;
Their gifts, at last, to hone…
Wakening greater need,
From muck and quagmire freed;
It ceased to matter, indeed,
Except to will it and proceed…
Dear Damsel in Distress;
His majesty issues this decree,
we now, by royal rule, consider dragon’s points of view
And unwise persistence cause for banishment.
has been also noted, thank you very much.
By command of His Royal Eminence
King of Common Sense
The Maven of Mess, Keeper of the Clamor
Nit and Pick, Wizards of Dishonor
And Dark Knights in Brightly Shining Armor
Provocateur, iconoclast,
Displaying traumas from his past,
Witty, polished eloquence,
Compensating ignorance;
In pubertal defiance.
Those who study well,
Can very quickly tell,
What he has neglected;
And what he has rejected.
But we must only listen; no one is exempt,
True congress incurs wrath and his, most vile, contempt.
At best, he skimmed some books,
Thus, oblivious to how he looks.
Just half of what he claims he read,
would cause implosions in his head.
The Circumambulator
Is a sage impersonator!
Consider the would-be Nubian Kings,
Consistently failing to think through things;
And Queens, bereft of actual subjects
Seeking to make all others puppets,
Attributing faulty intellect,
To all who dare object.
Consider the haughty, grand delusion,
Seeking capital and collusion,
Making other appendages,
Of weary, warped self-images
tired, incongruent schemes,
Monotones and monothemes,
Of narcissistic fantasies...
And just say Nubian Please…
