Credendum

Felled plumes of youth tread light to spite sequestered serving spoons that bear
The watermarks once silvered shining,
Once dried & polished, now dulled & tarnished
Reclined in coffin-trays of age, last breath expels in Delphi whisper
Reminders offer up redemption - memento mori – calm & for the few who’ve stayed
A toast that you’ll fall fast asleep within the lap of modest gods
Who’ve yet to wield their powers claimed but stroke your forehead just the same
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?

Lost wishes dance beyond vast heaven’s burning light of satellites
Shined brightly down upon tomorrow (as for today, we shan’t believe)
We’ll not conceal our efforts though betrayed
W/ blinded eyes & raspy voices carried far & vanished all
Through billowed clouds of smoke the declaration - per aspera ad astra!
Laid glories paid to ashes straggle late, in fact they come but only once upon
A long awaited, antiquated jewel of sparkling alteration set in suspect demarcation
Celari vult sua furta Venus

Corruption of the best is worst, far worse than better laughing laws of added insult
Injured by inventing customs mocked & morbid, teased & sordid
No creature dies a virgin - this existence bends & screws us all
On blankets made from ferns of dust by unapologetic apparitions floating free &
Unforgiven - sic transit gloria mundi – headless vespers starkly bowed & flourishing
Like April’s sighing daffodils come springing forth through dark-infested, soil-digested
Tablets dunked in Dramamine soliloquies of ghosts heard singing languidly
“Nemo liber est qui corpori servit”

Cadavers slowly grow & quickly die, the clocks unwind their blood-stained hands
While friends who knew dread time draws nigh have long departed, broken-hearted
Finding troubles multiplied as sure as sun meets tempest sky in revealed caveats
Spoken by dear Daedalus who can’t deter bold Icarus from soaring ever higher
Toward the fire - adversus solem ne loquitor – a late appeal from fabled lips
The flame attracts the moth’s wings laced w/ wax while Mona Lisa’s missing eyebrows
Raise: ‘tis better to be hated for yourself than loved for who you’re not
Ars est celare artem

An empty cask is simply rolled down labored mountains giving birth
For centuries the mouse lies breached until w/in the caverned-womb recedes
The condemnation of misunderstanding, the fear that molds numbed ignorance doled
Out to hungry witnesses who can’t compare to one lone conscience pricked & prodded
For veracity, indeed - veritas vos liberabit – impunity shall not provoke though truth
Be found in vats of wine, to quarrel with a drunkard is to wrong a man who is not there
His vacant stare transfixed upon the grapevine’s luring flattery, the smutty jest molesting
Quod me nutrit me destruit

Fate stalks in stealth & sets its trap with tears, with vile sacraments of coy persuasion
Forced upon a host who has not learned to die nor translate mandates
Penned in chalk by papered fools who use the wall’s deceptive template
For their forged negotiations, creating bogus lamentations thus diverting tiny minds
Abjection of the self-made kind must be surmounted - vincit qui se vincit – as all things
Change so change we w/ them, tortured by the arrogance of horrid wars & barmy lovers
Cradled in the thorny eye where argyle webs catch origami silhouettes of days gone bye
Dolor hic tibi proderit olim

Abandoned hope for rope to suture up shorn burlap sacks of burdens tied around swelled
Heads & left for dead with all but fa®ce to save men, save them from depravity &
Wrinkles etched in wickedness that feign what’s left of shameful sin enshrouded in
Enduring dimpled malice cast to sow the crops of gardened excess graft to masks that
Bury winter’s sly insurgency – mundus vult decipi – for summer will not always be
As everything that shines like gold is not as posh as it may seem sat dangling from
Hoodwinked earrings shaped to fit the feel of evolution’s hollow earlobe strained to hear
Parva leves capiunt animas

Reverberation tweaks the brain producing rain like blowhole Moby edifice
Torn down deluxe scab train electric swank eccentric vertigo abstraction quicksand
Sink in elephant parades which pave the way for maiden voyage Starship Compromise &
Bend dreamed knees to sacred Dahlia Terror bum hum round the barrel’s blazing spire
Scorching scandalous skirts afire - suum cuique pulchrum est - round zoftig hip of
Backdoor sun splash spread as grass sharks scan the seedy scene in shades of green
Embracing each lost chance begotten, clever slip & tiptoe round the hippo dipped
Brevior saltare cum deformibus mulieribus est

Dismembered limb of peg-legged poet flail vis-à-vis pure dumbsaint great wild teahead
Compositions mixing w/ the maddened visions crawling out of inhibitions exhibiting
The past & present future of said discontent while rapt in frantic fog fantastic swirling in
A language sea of energy, the knowledge of no hope can bring the courage to move ever
Onward, rest peacefully fair Marian - eheu fugaces labuntur anni – such holy contours of
The Earth can disappear without a warning, in truth to find another form emblazoned
On the chest of independence from your captive skin & curl up at the feet of fine infinity
Ad limina apostolorum

Accepted loss can reconstruct the aqueducts that flow so deeply in the mind of
Solemn ages stilled in streams where bathe the sages searching in the pooled
Reflections plunging deep for sunken passions, fractions of a misspent youth is proof
The seed falls further from the tree than what initially believed so does authority have its
Place but beware casting pearls to swine – quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – accountability
Is a necessity if we are to agree democracy is key when dealing with our convoluted
Views on human sovereignty & world responsibility - is it too late to save the queen?
Astra inclinant, non necessitant

As glass doth shatter when it gleams the brightest so do fortunes splinter sending shards
Into the mystic mist of everlasting bliss & comfortable forgetfulness, the patient watered
Spots of teardrops excavate the hardened stone, not done with force but falling often
Fingers pricked on rapture’s rose, high places sought by narrow roads, make me chaste
But yet not so - forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - those who are allowed to sin
Sin less, experience lends best to them that teach on what they learn for learned men
Find wealth w/in the history of their error’d ways which teach them best how to behave
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum

Led hand in hand to comprehend the whole of beauty turning inward, laughter sung by
Foreign children following the path of seldom, seeking trails w/ unknown outcomes
Trusting instinct won’t relent – be not confused nor circumvent, this life is an
Experiment, insist upon yourself & listen closely to the whisper you alone can hear
W/in the temple’d walls of unique celebration - nosce te ipsum – then fall behind
So you may finally find the finest traits locked deep inside, trapped in the genius of
The mind can one discover thoughts discarded - winds that blow the sails departed
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest

Unite w/ fond fidelities in lieu of fretting futilely in towers made from shiftless
Interests fixed to castles built on distress, instead decant a firm foundation boasting
Groomed humility, become the artificer of a calculated destiny & if there be failed
Faults to find abandon them & start again amending flaws as best you can while still
Asserting soft submission - dum vivimus servimus – like rivers nourish ocean tides
So must creation learn to lap upon the sands of distant shores & drown its weakness
Evermore: man’s nature can be modified but not the nature of mankind
Consummatum est.