Douglas Colston | 3 Poems
Taking 'extermination' as a spouse? The mark of death.
The pattern of flowers –
perhaps inclusive of the euphemistic application
of ‘flowers’ to the florid, wounds, prostitutes,
profligacy, costs, lechery, smallpox and errors –
is to while away time, die and vanish.
Choosing to ‘marry’
waste and extermination
is a form of culture –
its ‘language’
is death and dissolution.
Selecting division and destruction?
Ignorance reverting to the wrong direction.
To consider and choose
deprivation and robbery?
Cunning and wily change.
Choosing deception, violence, abduction,
murder, destruction and theft?
An ‘art’, ‘skill’, ‘trade’, ‘craft’ and conclusion
that is spoilt, bizarre, abnormal and forsaken.
That choice
is a currency and property
that is lowly, disappointing and deadly …
that journey breaks and destroys.
Carmen contrā molestiae
(A poem against troubles, annoyances, molestation and the vexatious)
A rhyming poem
can seem like a tome –
a section of a larger work
it’s likely a dubious perk.
Constraining the creative process
may lead to a bit of a mess,
but applying capabilities
provides plenty of opportunities.
Does such affectation
amount to a shun –
the reader and poet ostracized
by meaning metamorphosized?
Words that rhyme
change with time
and there are other problems
creating conundrums.
Popularized in European poetry
around the 14th Century,
some consider them penury …
and I tend to agree.
When there is something to be said
it should reflect what’s in the head –
that’s what communication’s about …
otherwise, it’s all for nought.
The rhythm of thought
rather than rhyming that’s fraught –
such should be the goal
for verses that are whole.
As for the grander scheme
it would seem
whither Heaven or Hell,
only time will tell.
Tarot divination
Castle fortifications, a spire, a Buddhist stupa or ‘The Tower’ in Tarot?
A net (like that for catching birds)
or a sieve.
A memorial, shield, tablet or playing cards?
Whispering choices, wishes and desires.
Divination, foretelling or prediction?
Occupying and possessing
manners and airs
displaying, spreading out, gathering and collecting
defences, idolatry and –
on occasions –
inauspicious omens.
Fortresses, castles, rough ground,
difficulties, dangers, stressors,
the unattainable and the impassable?
Showing, displaying and pointing out
the figurative, rhetorical and decorative.
To begin or start the future,
give voice to doing …
working, creating, causing and being involved.
A palace or large residence
exhibits, exposes, explains and signifies
the rhetorical:
“They seize or lay hold of
what is given, offered, rendered or yielded”.
A hall?
A possession
that shows discussion, talk or debate
is a fitting fair wind
founding utility, benefit and advantage.
Douglas Colston hails from Australia, has played in Ska bands and picked up university degrees, supported his parents during terminal illnesses, developed chronic mental and physical illnesses pursuant to sustained workplace harassment, married his love, fathered two great children, had his inheritance embezzled and among other things, he is pursuing a PhD he hopes will provide a positive contribution to the zeitgeist. In 2022, his fiction, nonfiction and poetry appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including: POETiCA REViEW; Impspired; New Note Poetry; Otherwise Engaged Literary and Arts Journal; and Revue {R}évolution. theancientoracle.com | https://www.facebook.com/douglas.colston
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