QUEEN to the top row signals end game:
BEGET now of history’s tides a great closing.
LEASE on moment, on circumstance, on the known is so short,
QUAKEs the rule. Pockets of calm will be someone’s golden age centuries from now.
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Change-proof
AGILE minds twist, dodge, weave, even as conviction seeks to seize.
DETER demands of change: most human trait.
ADMIT not what might force the climb down, the apology, the review, the realization.
VALID, we might admit of other arguments, but true, if we hold it not?
Silly lines
JIFFY—a jot more than a flash. Say alphabet in Greek:
THETA arrives in jiffy, right where Brits have an haitch.
SCAMP steals the i from scampi, tosses it to line 1 as jot.
ACTOR thinks about these lines, thinks delivery cannot overcome some obstacles.
No audits
AUDIT life? Not hardly. Fully enrolled and final bleak.
SKULL, inside thereof, struggles to own the course,
TYING fitfully what happens to its precious rarity:
GONER struggles to grasp gone.
Captains of reduction
TITANs of enterprise cast our time’s longest shadow,
YEAST mixing, rising, baking the celebrated result,
CANON of society: entrepreneur measured as model citizen.
LEAKY, of course, this view: all other worth drained away.
Xmas mehs
SASSY holiday cheer, deep as a shallow puddle,
TOKEN nod to peace drowned by commerce and nostalgia.
PRISM of the season splits our longing into empty beams.
REVUE, noisy, flashy, bouncy, to crowd out low hopes.
Roads and Tracks
CHOCK pulled, plane taxis, soars, slips ground’s hold.
BRIAR, meadow, town, fields, hills. Also:
DROVE of roads and tracks, lines on Earth’s face,
FIBER of societies, nerves and veins, carry pulse and impulse.
Golem in the Shadows
GOLEM in the shadows, yet forehead sigil clear,
SPIRE in background says Gotham,
JOKER, manic ennui radiating, front and center.
OPTIC mishmash reminds of Kavalier and Clay.
Major Award
PROVE bona fides, then
BLISS’ll be yours,
AWARD received, thanks to
OFFER from Publisher’s Clearing House.
Flex
STEAK knives, pearl handled, deluxe set.
CASTE requires flex and display,
PETALs, filigreed silk flowers.
COWER, lesser folks with lesser swag!