Photo by Luis Felipe Alburquerque Briganti from Pexels Crooked menlead crooked lives.Like lightning. “Now that I have your face by heart, I lookLess at its features than its darkening frameWhere quince and melon, yellow as young flame,Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd’s crook.Beyond, a garden. There, in insolent easeThe lead and marble figures watch the showOf yet […]
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Photo by Наталия Котович from Pexels Like our land had a spell over itAnd we were caught in the middle.Like there’s so much more to sayMaybe I’ll say it laterWhat silver linings some may mine from Covid-19.Like birds. Talking. And less traffic. No road through the heart is free from danger.Like holding off loss and heartache like a
Photo from Wikimedia A thoughtful ghostWhose words deliverA fire to my heartAnd make it shiverOne William BlakeOnce called a TygerAlight within the night. Indeed:What immortal hand or eyeCould frame that fearful symmetry?Or at its death, throw down its spearsAnd water Earth with Heaven’s tears? A light that shines on many an eyeThrough stained glass.Darkly. “Tyger
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Photo from Wikimedia Pride.A pride of lions. There must be hundreds of roads up for option in most lifetimes.Who can even look them all down,Much less travel them each a mile?Sorry. Any road might be a road not taken, if it calls.It matters more the Good to be done, and Voice to be heard along
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Photo by nappy from Pexels Societies and Empires reconstruct themselvesIf not proactively, then cut like the Grand Canyon. Shogun leads to shogunTo the sun and back. Dynasty to dynastyGreat Wall to Mao to Tiananmen Square. Genghis Khan from son to sonTo Kublai Khan and gone. Hindus to untouchables to SikhsMaharajas to East India to Gandhi and Kashmir. Mohammed
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