Waded through the squelch and slush
to trellised truths in concrete jungles
of canned and canopied stories.
The Emperor went unnoticed,
au natural, in the midst
of nature, in naturist colonies.
Picked the fickle
from the pickles,
flecked red with disbelief.
Ah the relief of release,
the release of relief.
Said the elephant,
student of history,
to the entrepreneurial ant,
“While the mammoth scoffed,
the aardvark never laughed
at the absurdity of the Ark.”
And sometimes, God would cease
to exist, for the atheist,
but for the arrant proof of pain.
Copyright ©2011 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.
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