Poems

by Michael Bledsoe


Starflights

Ah, the brief pinnacle of man...
A world, a universe; time stands still
Lo the world, standing as if never to fail.
And the stars wait, at the earth’s ravages

Cannot the starlings stay their flight...
As a drop that strikes the limpid surface;
As a gasp of breath in ending life;
As the last flame of a fire now burned.

We have come into power, into hate,
        raping the void of life...
Of all the riches at the rainbow’s start.
Human we are; we are all -- we
Ever will be -- forever.

Prelogue
Times turning as the wheels on a cart,
Pulled by rages of starlings,
What of the humanities?


Czar Nicholas Tribble Stansoe
1975 -- 1979

Cossack boots,
A laughing smile
        Furry underwear
Winning everyone's hearts
A Casanova
Strutting proud, Royal Tsar
Putting on a show
A champion through
Beating All the Odds
Hot-blooded Father
Cheerful Protector
Spending Long Hours
Rebel Smile
Faithful to the end
                              mpb
                              9-14-79


Skip that verse, tomorrow

Life passing the dawn,
cause exceeding through cause,
years of time, lost scale,
and trouble add cause,
In a past feel of ages
my line leave marks in
a lone book, empty pages
thoughts end, never begin.

Again thoughts mark between the lines
I find expression in its lack
Time fades a segment into phase
deflection through silent past
space-time distortion
repeat last phase
syne.
                              mpb
                              October 2nd 1977


Portions Of A Multiplex Day.
(Thoughts In Amber)

November 5th, 1975

Lights then some, and burdens of the midline
across my mind
I see the world: as it once was as it seems to be
as I wanted to become and how it will become
I obtained; these burdens are excruciating
Now is the that I can change the world;
sometimes I can't even change my mind.
Am I lost in the automotive eternal spirit?
I don't think that I know, maybe...

What I feel forever isn't the same has what I feel forever.
But I react along similar lines
Wound cheers the touch a burning sole wound won't cool and. Ghostly


Poems copyrighted © by Michael Bledsoe




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