Definitions

The Primed Sense of Ethics


The wellspring of science shimmers and dances

Borrows its soul in the field that advances

Shakes of the vestiges eschewing starflakes

Still keeping fleet iotas rippling with chances.

Before it diffuses and just disappears

The fountain of matter dissects the years

Confirming the emergent vocabulary reterming

An obsolete atomic structure slung in arrears.

The fathoms of logic penetrate the purist landscape

Fashion apotheosis of life as it takes shape

Falls across the prostrate mosaic that calls

To the essence germinating from the proverbial grape.

Priority arises, divides into pairs

Divergent arguments fragment into split hairs

Salvaged decision is rescued beyond ravaged

Cost and affected relative repairs.





Seaside Draught


Drops align along the beach,
Much maligned their souls outreach
Ranked in short Orders of the Bath
Compounded maelstroms gripped in wrath.
Whet their soul a river be
To join flowing shire in ecstasy
At the foot of mountainside
In the crux of eventide,
Swirling in hypnotic ruse,
Flaming arrow’s shaft ensues
Upon the swelling sun running over
With sonnet chords and yielding clover.
Dulcet is the groan that perishes
Into the star-soaked deep minute still cherishes.





Facebook


Reigned rugged in prediction of frequency

Since the lightning first cracked,

A knob like an unlocked door handle

Gripping the attention

In a resolved

Issue of note,

Be it bank or mint,

To the full extent

Of an active

Culpable permission:

That sign of the times,

The box

At home . . .

The ruined,

The public domain –

The quixotic,

The channeled,

The trivial

Tube.





The Beat of the Wilow


The universe, as it billows,
The foremost of old willows,
Hosts no torpid peccadilloes
In its vast significance.
Smug jealousy yellows
The world as it mellows
In degrees and in fellows
A broadened expanse.
Tomorrow rings rueful
Though be it ever so truthful
To make a test of the beautiful
Or propose to supplant
The legends of the fruitful
Flowering and youthful
But bound not to be dutiful
And love’s liege to recant.
How the saucy willow plays softly
Remembering oftly
The lessons dealt loftily
Over the hill and above the dell.
The wind joins it huffily
The clouds treatise puffily
The wildflowers spread ruffly
Fragrance while they belle
Around a broad trunk
Faithful as a monk
Fateful as the young
Nestling in strong boughs.
The past of a treasure-filled junk
Glides within sight in a rain-filled hunk
While the sunlight splays beyond its rungs
As close as surfeiits will allow..