Tonight, an erudite moon hoots
softly from the marble
reflection in a pygmy owl's eyes.
Skies are starless, stars
obfuscated by the brilliance of a full moon.
Fish-clouds bring a twinkle
to the knowing eyes
of a fisherman's optimism.
There are no werewolves here,
only lagahoos;
mysterious creatures shapeshifting
into man-
icous at midnight, luminous
moon-sized eyes, eee-
yes, to thwart and bring, with douen
and garbie, confusion
and fright to hunters lost
among the lastro and the roseau
in forests of desires.
Lagahoos who prefer to turn
beast, pull their chains, and crosses,
in the dark be-
fore day morning.
But bite your cutlass
handle and, like a charm,
walk away unharmed, unfazed
by full or waning moons, and yet,
like lunar phases,
still undecided
as to whether we are men
turning to beasts
or beasts
turning to men.
©2012 by G Newton V Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
