“Persistence”
Painting by Liang Yi Er
From pictify.com
well laid persistence
will defeat the twin tyrants
chance and destiny
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magic lies within
amoral impurities
of yellow gold
circlets inscribed
with runic symbols
turned inward
on sanctified skin
powers penetrate
fortified fingers
overwhelming
retrograde skeptics
with confident peace
in contented alliance
to carry the years
powers that deflect
life’s punishing blows
with a two-sided shield
emblazoned with
sketches well blended
in portraits
revealing one face
powers that bend to
enwind iron strands
forming singleton
entity wearing
linked curves of
the lemniscate
promise of always
powers that convert
selfish forces
of ego into
cardiac passions
of selflessness
born of organic
commitment
powers that anneal
through diamond hot
passion compressing
one whole weighing
more than its halves
fused with more than
half-volumes of bliss
powers to create
from unhesitant love
new beginnings
new life in the thriving
embrace of a family
eagerly poised
for the future
powers to heal wounds
inflicted by age
with a mutual touch
of fingertip teardrops
adoring the…
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deceit hastens end
of trusting relationships
truth never expires
Photo from joshuakennon.com
faces fall into collars
heavy with sallow
cast ill-at-ease under
gaunt lamplighter globes
indistinct luminescence
in moist opaque fog
shadows throw their
flat mysteries splashed
across pavements then
climb up bricklaid grimy
walls to a tallness both
eerie and handsome
while brass buckles glint
from highwaymen’s boots
making dull wood-heeled
cobblestone clicks in
their escort of whispering
crinoline bustles
here in bleak alleyway
gridworks died centuries
swallowed by darkness
till Pall Mall was gasified
bringing its secrets to light
and consignment to flames
Broken Baseball Bat
Photo from checkswing.com
splintered travesty
sharp from the split
calving crashes of will
between old rival
friends swinging hard
their milled timber
opposing opinions
crack shattering
baseball bat duels
leaving wounds
for a moment
but never a lifetime
round gazebos, pavilions
and pergola octagons
stood village greens
crowded with summers
of swirled cotton candy
and lemonade mason jars
drawn into innocent
haphazard circles
of lawnchairs and wickered
fried chicken and pies
here fat politicians
in straw hats and vests
with a flask in each pocket
blew clouds of cigar smoke
and fogbanking speeches
across crinkled buntings
between martial music
played slightly off key
over lawns packed with bowties
and gingham checked modesty
children roamed happily
innocence safely
preserved among apricots
peaches and plums
wanting blue ribbon samples
while learning to sing
stirring patriot songs
alive with the civics
that promised fulfilling
tomorrows ahead
this once was America
land of my birth
where my parents came
seeking and finding
their most cherished dreams
this once was America
long before she and I
fell down disabled
from festering mordant
internal disease
edged with a backcurve
evoking a moon hung
in crescentic phase
symbolic of war
masquerading as peace
shaped for the slash
horseback histories
and executioners
fit to infidel necks
