Discordant

Most disagreeable I think

This change

Do I give up?

C’est la vie per se

The music is what I miss

A sweet sound of alliance

Unexpectedly on a sour note

Or can the orchestra be tuned once again?

Strings plucked pulled strummed and drawn

Horns pulled blown pulsed and pushed

The first flute caressed lightly by lips sweet

And the pulsing beat of hearts drums

Together to conduct

A tandem piece

Melodious bliss

rlm2012 eddydance

Withdrawn

This spectator enigma

To this life’s purpose

This then that.

Fa'amolemole, pe mafai ona tatou lalaga fa'atasi?
(Please can I weave with you?)
Maryann Talia Pau 2009

Way finding in blindness

A world so foreign

To a truth so developed.

Spiraled madness

Such confused state.

But hell it has been a good time

Hasn’t it?

The future is blinding

Its brightness disorienting

This reprieve from guiding rules

Frequently abandoned

Providing reckless regard

To the structures comforting.

Linguistic freedom is now

A treasured gift

Giving texture to the bland

Colour to the grey

Observer to narrator

Withdrawing back to oblivion.

Where is that stupefied place anyway?

Freeze back to irregular

A solo act

A perfunctory thespian

The mime in this grand experiment

Formerly focused

Gratefully freed

Being captured again to this web

So long, withdrawn

Apotheosis

RLM2012 may day moon imprismed

Staring out to the moon tonight

I deliberate only you

A May Day reflection

Flowers in your hair

Your dance a fertility

Your mind verses

An ode to your aware

Day in day poetry

And story

Narrative of purpose

Account of reflection

Description of experience

You hold us there

Spell bound to the word

To your day naissance

Risen again to your throne

In health and understood

Watched in brilliance awe

Grateful we all are

anneal

RLM 2012 Lichened Omega

so what!

in spite of my demeanour

i am not hard enough?

yet

but heated enough

i suppose i might become

that way

there is no fun

that way

i know

i’ve lived like this too long

ever hardening

soon to brittle

then breakable

little pieces spread to the wind

valediction adieu

rusted