Divine Remains
Strands tangled;
the whole set free
So tightly woven
in camaraderie
What remains,
souls run to ground?
Golden threads,
stretched to breaking
Whipping shreds
snap from moorings
Pull away, leaving
small odd wounds
Now, low red
embers glow
Stars mark time’s
slow fall
Chin to knees, hat
pulled low
Left to wonder, is
this all?
This remains,
clear soul memories
Crystal sharp
colour, taste, sound
The smell, the
texture of our lives
Watch these ledge
leapers bound!
Decades of
evenings now descend
So deep, deep into
this long decline
Breath catches -
we see, my friend
Sparkling mind
gems left behind
I raise my cup
above this small glow
To you that wove
your story with mine
And trust in your
reverie, you know
Something so
common is divine.
ReBirth
What is this blindness?
One eye seeing Earth,
One spying on Man –
Every lizard known and named
Each gear,
all engines optimized
Then why don’t we understand?
Two spinning spheres
In counter rotation
The
birth-death-birth cycle
Must
govern all exchange:
Renewal, depletion,
Re-growth through devastation…
Once from a stillness,
Through form, into fire
The explosion of creation
Includes its demise
Returning to origins
Of quiet calm presence
The smallest Iota retains its agenda.
What is our place,
If not to dance, and move on
This
silliness of anxiety
Belies
the obvious:
There is no line, defining being.
Allow the dawn
with each probing ray,
intimate access to your sanctuary
for pain of awakening
is the essence of birth,
and rebirth as well,
and
ReBirth, as well.
Morning comes, light filling the bowl of
the valley.
The sea of night’s air rises with the
day’s warmth.
Sunrise washes the cliffs, wrapping all in
promise.
Today I bought tea. Jasmine pearls, and
Darjeeling:
seasons change, to
Fall.
A brisk wind swirls leaves. Mare's tail
clouds shift, far aloft:
mid-morning tea
time.
The bowl fills to timberline, by noon,
then recedes.
Tiny star holes appear above as the day’s
light wanes.
Evening chases the day west, over the
valley’s rim.
Midnight comes, starlight sparkles above
the valley.
The day’s blanket of warmer air thins and
settles to brittle cold.
The full moon rises, hushing promises.
Tonight, dark rum spikes hot apple cider:
gone
now the Fall; welcome in Winter.
From a clear sky, minute snowflakes swirl
from an
approaching eastern cloudbank.
Dense clouds obscure the timberline,
slowing advancing.
Soon, stars will blink out as the night’s
weight pushes westward.
Behind the storm, a new day follows.
Redemption Bones
To
my detriment, I suppose
I
continue to hold this odd belief
that
there are Redemption Bones
in
the framework of us Humans
Bones
there since Birth scattered among others
holding
up the heavy Good while other bones just balance
For
Good is weighty, and tips one over
when
so much of Life just floats along
And
Good demands support, O & M
while
the rest just asks for Eternity.
I’ve
argued this point with myself before, with some success
but
generally I tend to lose my Case regarding Redemption
For
most of Me thinks otherwise
we
toss those Bones along the way
too
much trouble with the up-keep
too
darn hard to find Parts
And
it’s no use asking Others. Oh, they had the same Bones
but
if they’re still in place they sure won’t own up to it
So
there’s the rub:
It
ain’t Cool to let others know
about
Redemption Bones.
They’ll
just want something
As
long as you don’t appear to have a single Redeeming Bone
other
People just pass you by, sniffing elsewhere for tid-bits
Every
dog just gotta find
its
own damn Bones.
Redemption,
or
otherwise.
To My Muse
Muse, what seek you here?
In coaxing out my tuneless rhyme
You drop in, and then disappear
You meddle mightily with my time
Ghost and Angel, fate or chance
You require so much of me
Nimble nuance of my best Word Dance
Also the worst stumbles, aired publicly
A toast then, Muse, to our tête-à-tête
I do know that I like you here
Close, where you can ricochet
My ecstasy off my deepest fear
Michael E. Theroux, pen name ‘Teru’ - Writes incessantly from his home office in Northern California. His careers span includes classically trained botanist, environmental health specialist, green energy developer and resource recovery web site editor. A life-long word smith, his publications have primarily been professional papers supporting these careers; a full CV is available upon request, and see samples on our industrial web site Teru Talk. Now at 72, Michael has done a hard pivot from hard science, and is seeking publication of his cache of art writings, including around 400 poems, stories, memoirs, vignettes and two novels (one complete, the other in progress). Some of his works may now be seen in Down in the Dirt, Ariel Chart, 50WS, Academy of the Heart and Mind and the marvellous Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
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