Friday, April 26, 2013

Quite En Regle


I walk in drenched evenings
Following the smell of April twilights
And the faint sound of destiny
Lingering in the distance.

Dead skeletons shout slogans of
Emancipation
From overpopulated graveyards;
And hounds of the night
Cry.

Quite en regle.
They are
Sights
That torch our eyes.
Words
That scar our hearts.

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Photographs in closed cupboards
Housing hundred memories
Are bedaubed with the blood of lost years:
Life's Ignis Fatuus is full of
Smoke:
Yellow Smoke that rises
From this muskeg
Of ghostly lights
And truthful liars.

Cacophonous gramophones
With their musical clap-trap!
What emotions?
What life?
What death?
What humanity?

We are but a soulless group of souls
Groping in the mud
For some lost coin.

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