Thursday 4 April 2019

HEREBY THIS AN ODE TO O AND F

THE SKY IS AN INSTRUMENT
THE CLOUDS PLUMP PILLOWS ALL PLUSH
BILLOWING IN STORMS SELF-INFLICTED
AT HEAVEN 
AT HEAVEN
AT HEAVEN!
A TEAR 
WEIGHS A TONNE 
THAT TONNE 
THAT FALLS
AS IF THE NIAGARA ITSELF
THAT TEAR 
IS HOME
DISPERSED
STILL WILL SLIP 
STUMBLING 
STEADILY CAUTIOUS

TO THE MARINE TENTACLES 
FIVE THOUSAND OCEANS’ LENGTH
REST IT CAN’T 
LONGING FOR THE EARTH 
INSIDE COLOURED THE METICULOUS HUE
DARKER TILL DOOM
DAWNS
THE PILLAR UPHOLDS
PHILOSOPHICAL BANTER 
BLOW SOMEWHAT SERIOUS STEAM 
INSIDE THAT TONNE
SELF-DEPRIVED 
BARELY
ANYTHING RIPE
THAT LACKS
IS NATURE’S ASSERTION 

WHOLLY COLOURLESS
HOLY POWERS
HAILS A HOLE TOO MUCH
BREWING INDOORS 
THE RAIN 
RELEASES
A PEARL FETUS IS CRACKLING
CRANKY
IRIDESCENTLY DANGEROUS
A DROP IS NOT
IN ITS DESCENT
HARMONY TORTURES HARMONIOUSLY
A VINEGAR SAMPLE IS SUFFICIENT
MUST EVERY TURTLE SWIMS 

ONE LIGER CHASES ITS WICKED HIND
HINDERS RIVERS 
FLOWS FOREVER FLUENTLY IN SPITE
THE SHORE THAT BENDS
PERFECTLY SPRAINED 
HYPOCRISY IS THAT VICIOUS HOUND
PRACTICAL PRIOR 
SHOULD NEVER FORESEE THE FORTUNE INFLICTED UPON
DYED SANDS
IN SPRINTS
ACCRUE SEASHELLS
FROM RESTLESS PASSENGERS
SPAWNED MIGRATION 
A POPULATION INEVITABLY BLOOMS

IN NOBODY’S NECK
RICOCHET 
HARD-CORE
THE HIDEOUS JARGON
PREJUDICE WITHOUT HAVING TO UTTER
FLAGS IN PROTEST WEEP VINDICTIVELY 
SLURS
BESAME MUCHO
SO MUCH EXCITED
THE INSPIRATION 
SOAK THE OCEAN 
WITH THE FOLLOWING
FRUITFUL RHETORIC 
FOAMING WHERE 
NARCISSISTIC ALLUSIONS 
FORGE SOLUTIONS
UPON THE ASSEMBLY AMBASSADORS
CALL ALL
HANDSOME ONLY 
SURMOUNTS THE SATISFACTORY SACRIFICE 

AS SUCH THEIR SOLILOQUY 
TRICKLES THUS
DOWN ALL THEM
DODGED 
ALL FREE 
AND TIL NOT
DROWNED BY A TEAR
ESPECIALLY BLUE
SHOULD IT BE SPILT
BY WHAT 
OR WHOM
THE SHEDDING
SACRED IT INDISPUTABLY IS
DOWN ALL THEY WHEN SEEN ALL THROUGH