BERTHa was a pirate with a great big pirate’s
CHEST – of treasure. She’d oft berate her saucy mates with
LOFTY views, which would state treasure chests were Bertha’s, and
FEIGN what you like, or grate your teeth, you’d never see a piece of real estate.
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Topgallant Royal
LOFTY perch, topgallant royal, sea at every horizon,
FEIGN stoic, yet feel all thrill, fear, wonder,
CHEST below with unread books, I read this height, this view.
BERTH is only for sleep: my heart dwells here.
Unsinkable
BERTH on the ship cost a life’s savings
CHEST to store your things
REIGN over the seas challenged by
LOFTY-minded, insurrectionist ice.
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Art vs Sport
ARTS? Y? Why do you want me to do arts?
LEAN To me, son, and I’ll tell you.
AMEN Dad, now I’ve listened to your wisdom, it
UNDID all my former thoughts on baseball.
Cherish All
ARTSY: pretense of person or society’s dread at creativity?
UNDID we high school typology, truly beholding beholders, could be
LE[A]NT new beauty to seekers of beauty? Let difference surpass wilful difference?
AMEND! Plead to cherish all, the same and the different.
Finished
ARTSY craftsman
UNDID his smock,
LEANT against the doorframe:
“AMEN! Done!” with a sigh of relief.
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Chauvinist
CLOSE to the swing doors leading to the
SERVEry, I’m favoured with frequent
AROMAS from the kitchen, and waitresses passing. ‘Hey
FILLY!’ a bumptious customer calls. And is ignored.
What I need
For whom the BELLE
tolls; sorry SHAKY
spelling – I need a PSALM
at my life STAGE.
‘BELLE’ reappears after only a few days, like a
PSALM long known that often comes to mind. In this
SHAKY time, three funerals in one week, I need
STAGE posts in the dusk to carefully tread to.
The Two Ways
SHAKY grasp on the two ways:
PSALM One’s rooted tree, drinking delight or rootless chaff, dry carried away.
BELLE senses truth, yet finds in glamor a delight that pulls her into the wind.
STAGE glory: who seeks a rooted place, when role can be had to dazzle?
Center Stage
SHAKY voice pierces the low bustling hum like a
BELL, Eagerly calling for the crowd’s attention.
PSALM texts written centuries ago still hold center
STAGE for addressing modern hearts.
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