to show

TO SHOW

sheets lined

 star facing toward

windward dropping sails

that say less unfurled

airless wind at a loss

unfilled sails




moonlight by day

never matters more

by night

even when guided

by star light




lite by starlight

surrounding the day unseen

like a dark music

or a windless sail unfurled

airless wind found at a loss

sheets unlined dropped




unfulfilled sails

like a moon by day

patient until the night returns

because light matters most

when the sails are unfurled

to catch the surrounding

dark music

A. Mendoza, 2016

to show

TO SHOW

sheets lined

 star facing toward

windward dropping sails

that say less unfurled

airless wind at a loss

unfilled sails




moonlight by day

never matters more

by night

even when guided

by star light




lite by starlight

surrounding the day unseen

like a dark music

or a windless sail unfurled

airless wind found at a loss

sheets unlined dropped




unfulfilled sails

like a moon by day

patient until the night returns

because light matters most

when the sails are unfurled

to catch the surrounding

dark music

A. Mendoza, 2016

AN ELECTION FABLE

An Election Fable

in a large pasture surrounded by mountains
were a flock of sheep and herd of goats

on one mountaintop was a great wolf
on the other a ferocious panther


looking for a meal each started down the valley towards their prey
halfway down each saw the other and realized the other would have to go
so they started their approaches

as they approached and sized each other up
each then realized the other could do
fatal damage to the other

and said the wolf, “the sheep are mine”
and said the panther, “the goats are mine”

then the hungry predators each went towards their prey
when a man fired his gun and killed them both






A.MENDOZA,2016

AN ELECTION FABLE

An Election Fable

in a large pasture surrounded by mountains
were a flock of sheep and herd of goats

on one mountaintop was a great wolf
on the other a ferocious panther


looking for a meal each started down the valley towards their prey
halfway down each saw the other and realized the other would have to go
so they started their approaches

as they approached and sized each other up
each then realized the other could do
fatal damage to the other

and said the wolf, “the sheep are mine”
and said the panther, “the goats are mine”

then the hungry predators each went towards their prey
when a man fired his gun and killed them both






A.MENDOZA,2016

DOUBLE VISION

Double Vision

mis-understanding a double vision
emotion becomes the moment
only what is felt is left
cold precision of time melts down feeling
when the moment of emotion overwhelms eternity
knowledge freezes the flowing

blind to even what is seen
that flowing frozen time
eternal in its moment
when knowing that what is felt
becomes the reason for what is meant
to be frozen in time
a double vision

clocks over ice
a sweetened drink swirling
frozen moments mixed
what is frozen cannot flood
an emotional ice age
doubly seen as what it is
as what it will it be


eternity's moment overwhelms
a ticking frozen knowledge
mis-understood emotions
melting into moments
in the cold precision of time
swirling like a clock over ice
holding with both hands
a double vision


A.MENDOZA,2016

DOUBLE VISION

Double Vision

mis-understanding a double vision
emotion becomes the moment
only what is felt is left
cold precision of time melts down feeling
when the moment of emotion overwhelms eternity
knowledge freezes the flowing

blind to even what is seen
that flowing frozen time
eternal in its moment
when knowing that what is felt
becomes the reason for what is meant
to be frozen in time
a double vision

clocks over ice
a sweetened drink swirling
frozen moments mixed
what is frozen cannot flood
an emotional ice age
doubly seen as what it is
as what it will it be


eternity's moment overwhelms
a ticking frozen knowledge
mis-understood emotions
melting into moments
in the cold precision of time
swirling like a clock over ice
holding with both hands
a double vision


A.MENDOZA,2016

A TEMPO PRE-VERSED

"Shaded" A Mendoza, 2004

 

a decider destructiveness 

less perverse as civilized

still elusive and simple

a symphony

a tempo

a monotony
 

 perverse

civilized

magical in-conclusion

essential indecision



heat devolves to ice

light devolves to dark

water hides the clear

devolved light



ice monotony

eludes water

 devolved light

 dissolved in ice

consuming the very air

we float in

a tempo perverse

a rhythmic in-conclusion



decider destructiveness

elusive and simple

as dark and ice

consuming the very air

of a perverse

music

A. MENDOZA, 2016

A TEMPO PRE-VERSED

"Shaded" A Mendoza, 2004

 

a decider destructiveness 

less perverse as civilized

still elusive and simple

a symphony

a tempo

a monotony
 

 perverse

civilized

magical in-conclusion

essential indecision



heat devolves to ice

light devolves to dark

water hides the clear

devolved light



ice monotony

eludes water

 devolved light

 dissolved in ice

consuming the very air

we float in

a tempo perverse

a rhythmic in-conclusion



decider destructiveness

elusive and simple

as dark and ice

consuming the very air

of a perverse

music

A. MENDOZA, 2016

MAD REASON

MAD  REASON

 

from commitment 

to commandment

omitting

a commandment to commit


to do as a command

doesn't commit by command

omitting freewill  


committing a lie 

omitting commitment

never free of commandment


melding madness

 molding reason

mashed words

into mad reason


molded mashed and melded

like thought pencil and paper

a madness



fed by a darkness

seen in light

melded to a mold darkly

becoming reason

as madness



mashed commandments

madness commitment 

free to omit

admitting lie



mad reason

an ommit-ment

madness commitment

by command



A. Mendoza, 2016

 

MAD REASON

MAD  REASON

 

from commitment 

to commandment

omitting

a commandment to commit


to do as a command

doesn't commit by command

omitting freewill  


committing a lie 

omitting commitment

never free of commandment


melding madness

 molding reason

mashed words

into mad reason


molded mashed and melded

like thought pencil and paper

a madness



fed by a darkness

seen in light

melded to a mold darkly

becoming reason

as madness



mashed commandments

madness commitment 

free to omit

admitting lie



mad reason

an ommit-ment

madness commitment

by command



A. Mendoza, 2016