Thursday, December 16, 2021

Gonna unload some old poems

It turns out that a lot of my poems lie unposted, so I shall start posting them one by one. Here's this, from about 1.5 years back. Time sure does pass strangely during this pandemic.

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Icarus

When I see into your soul
Hope screams like a wounded beast,
A vulture, long of carrion starved,
She throws herself into the feast.

Then, she flies -- exultant, crude --
For she sees you look at me;
But Reason sees you grin and bear
That which is not meant to be.

Hope and Reason, rival wolves,
Battle for this battered throne
That I have nursed within my breast,
Secretly, for me alone.

When the wartime siren sounds,
To each, a different song it chimes:
Hope, she hears of bliss and love,
But Reason hears the end of times.

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Saturday, June 19, 2021

A remote goodbye to She-Infinity, the smoothest goshdarn dogger

 A Dog-walker’s Dirge

The vet has said that you must walk:
Foot up, foot down, foot up.
Walk now or you will never learn!
Please walk, my little pup.

Walk to the mess for tasty scraps,
Walk right, and left, and right;
And walk upstairs for treats and love
At all hours of the night.

Walk on fields, and on the streets,
And jump, and play, and run!
And walk, a proud and tired mum,
To bring me to your son.

And now that end times call you home,
Walk up, and up, and up,
To the highest heaven that's just for dogs--
Walk proud, my little pup!
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