Rather than surrender to the cycle,
life's perpetual seesaw
of birth, rebirth and death,
a nation swooned and fell upon its word.
The white and wizened wraith of year-end yearnings
doodled broken études of regret.
Decapitated dreams, like chicken heads,
flutter in the dust of left behind.
Tukuma yampi eyes are slowly opening,
the sloth slowly awakens from its sleep
to poisoned zabocas upon the tree;
to Janus blurring boundaries
(of a new integrity).
© 2012 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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