Face-Scape


Back and forth turn the heads, no thought
But for the action. They move with the play,
Following the ploys.

Two camps, opposing armies
Intermingled, cheer on their heroes.
Dark glasses and white headgear, how can they
Call the shots? Identically uniformed,
They gasp at thrust and parry; they glo...

Neon rainbows write themselves upon the harbour's flow
Like modernistic madrigals that hide the moon's soft glow,
And starlit silver shadowed shapes dance gently to the sea
On multitudes of greys and golds that wave farewell to me,
Bright crystal goblet promises are held up to the sky
To toast the breath of evening like the twinkling of an eye,
...

Come back to me once again
on the merest glimpse of evening’s aspirations
When the darkness carries all of my sublimely painted essences of you,
And untangle me once more
from life’s moonlit path of silver complications
Leaving midnight’s brush to paint the night’s complexion
as each shadow glows with such a different view.
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