Fairy Cherry Blossoms

Pixellated faces
Peering out
From behind a
Fragrant
Cherry blossom
(Kabuki) Mask

Does the mind's eye
See features
That never are
Or were,
Among those
Scented curtains?

In this strange
Fairyland
Flowers and pixies
Are merely
Fragments of magic
And never never.

Magic Fingers

When you wade
Into my body
With iron-hard
Boots
And
Merciless brass
Fingers

Torturing me with all your love

You twist and
Knead
And
Drag out

All of my dirty rotten secrets

Feet of Lead

Waking up
with feet of lead

 

Pompous Bell

Pompous Bell
Bronze sounding
Brazen ringing
Meaningless,
Constant,
Donging
Dinging
Bonging
Banging
On and on.
One nonsense
Tolling meter
Best used
To simply,
Blindly,
Mark
Time.

Renew Anew

When half is done
there is no need
To wait
For spring
(The beginning of
The new).

It is enough
To know,
The half Is over
Endurance
Is all that is
Now required.

And we all endure,
Don't we?

One Lifetime

For some poor
unfortunate souls
Thirty seconds
Is their,
Alloted span.

Others can't
Even seem to live
Thirty seconds
Once in
Eighty years.

Fashionable Epiphany

So the sayings go:
"Clothes make the man",
and "Dress for Success".

But I've had my
Fashionable
Epiphany;

That the man
Brings a Style
To the cloth!

Whereas,
Those lacking
Bring nothing.

No confidence?
Buy a logo,
And belonging,

Pre-purchase
A Look, a name,
Personality.

The real answer is;
With panache and a
Confident aplomb

Wear nothing but;
A feather boa,
Your cheeky grin.

 

 

 

Proportion

How many people do you know,
Do you really,
Understand?

A half, or perhaps
Round dozen?

Oh, you come from
A large,
extended family?

So, twenty,
even thirty then?

You're gregarious,
Extroverted,
A social butterfly?

So, you connect,
Deeply with,
Sixty,
Seventy,
One Hundred?
(flit flit)

Now, there are
Literally(!)
Billions
Upon
Billions
Of people in the world!

Think, understand
And with a sense of
Wonder and
Proportion
In equal measure
Shrink your
Nameless fears, and
Small-minded prejudices
To a more
Accurate
Size
.