October Light

Translucent light,

crimson leaves

transparent against

the clear October sky.

Last shades of summer,

first breath of cold.

A temporal suspension

in an adagio.

Covfefe

The vastness of the vast,

the vast conspiracy.

As vast as the ocean,

vastness deep.

So vast as to be unseen

Covfefe, covfefe, anon.

From my mouth of madness

I have sprung.

Like Hemingway in Spain,

I am tweeting in vain

while the vast dark sea rolls on.

Collusion, collision

there is no cohesion.

I make up the words

and roll them together

like marbles in the wind.

covfefe, covfefe anon.

Vast is Russia

like the vast conspiracy

and the vastness of all I see.

For I live in a land

of smoke and mirrors

and clouds of witless.

covfefe, covfefe, anon.

Lessons

Remember

the color of midnight,

its icy stillness

like frozen glass.

Forget

the void of night

where shadows prowl.

Remember

the misty glim

of dawn's first

rising.

Then forgive

your yesterdays,

for we all

have sinned.

They are lessons

for each day.

Beauty is Gone

Beauty is gone

like a wilted rose.

Truth is lacking

like tattered clothes

and the old equation

is poetic license,

not renewed.

Knowledge is gone,

buried deep in muck

by theory's Babel.

History lies like driftwood

scattered in the sand and

memory barely holds

as the glue dissolves.