Slippery Tale in Tercets

Slippery Tale

 

Slipping self
In time’s sleeve
Allowed shoes to click

walk they must
To earn keep
Or get walking papers

Mind bent on capers
Goaded body resorts to vapors
Spirit edgily situated, tapers

Cup cupped in palms
Mind chanting psalms
Liquid libation calms

Sloped life peaked
Slipped self pithily
Out of time’s sleeve

~

 

Inspiration

Inspiration

~

Slippery

Undulating

Iridescent

shimmer

elusive fins

nature’s

wet whimsy

 

in my hand

how doth

it tremor

quickening

heartbeats

matching

itching

painterly

Freda hands

ready to run

riot in Kahlo

color

 

~

Uprooted Assimilation

Uprooted Assimilation

 

Life’s bolded lines

Time blurred

Nest in memory

 

Canvases of glaringly

Different ilk, get tinted

In richer hues, eventually

 

Tadpoles from wells

Nurtured in fresh pastures

Rivet in richer timbres

 

Yet one can take a tadpole

Out of the well, but cannot fully

Take the well out of tadpole

 

Roots of bloodlines run deep,

Subterraneous veins flowing covertly

Petroglyphs of ancient memories

 

Life is full of déjà vu moments, feelings

Of affinity for total strangers~ events, it’s merely

Those subterraneous veins exposed in places

 

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Cleansing tercets

Mop in hand

Mopping spills, unable

To blot mouth spilled

 

Clearing cobwebs

In nooks, crannies

Mind proved elusive

 

Lined dust motes

Glow in rays of light

Their moment of glory

 

Life is life

Eel unpredictable, however

Will shower benevolence unexpectedly

 

Chanting under breath

In dawn’s tender soft light

Body and soul feel swabbed

Time

Ever moving
Three hands, face
Fidgeting

Lend bit of time
Or allow freeze frame
of your face~ a la Medusa

I seek but a handful of moments
From ongoing life’s battle, to regroup
Spent forces

You are historically a villain
Ever facing acrimony at the ink-
Stained hands of lovers and poets

Let us prove them wrong
Defy laws of nature
Become law unto ourselves

Still self I say
Unto you, so that
I can be still too

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