Thank you to Editor Mark Antony Rossi of Ariel Chart for publishing my three poems in the August issue.

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The Diverse Frames of Mind

 

 Change regarded as success,

a tendency toward new achievement,

walking along with blockbuster moves,

hailing the novel structure of a well-oiled roulette wheel.

 

Caught in an inescapable mood

with only serious purpose,

feeling bereavement for what was years ago,

the can’t or won’t mindset 

trying to purge the tracks of yesteryear,

clinging to the exotic structure of rust.

 

The relative warmth or coolness

of multiple frames of mind

lies within us, 

but they all have their genius.

A Somewhat Delicate Thought Process

 

Your deep thinking 

will hinge on your own theories,

your own thoughts.

You alone 

will be selecting 

the sharp and difficult questions

that you consider 

to be of paramount importance.

 

You will abandon what ideas 

should have been easily prepared 

on your own behalf

in answer to those questions

only if you get 

a hole in the pocket of your mind.

Rare Rage

 

Let it be rare rage

to flail against those 

who despise you with disdain.

Your sorrows exemplified by

seeds sown as the suffering caused by your doubts.

 

Ward off blows of such scandals

as produced by a violent maelstrom

of fierce and frequent hearsay.

 

Disregard a good deal of talk in the air around you

from those who will never stay.

 

You can never fall from favor

if you weren’t up there in the first place.

 

Throw in the towel.

Let your painful associations order a last meal.

Why cultivate unpleasant memories?