Wednesday, 07 April 2010

• Sestinas would work better with a friend writing them

  Nature's Terror Suspects

   

  Death comes on the downy wings of geese-

  The cursory postmortem performed by ferns-

  Supple fronds seeking a nugget of knowledge gold-

  An idea whispered by leafy tongues-

  So the mole, worm, and root share secrets below ground-

  And I feel my third eye begin to open-

   

  The mystery of downy winged death, a wound still open-

  How was it that these geese-

  Had bound a man to the ground-

  And how invasive were these ferns-

  Proclaiming innocence for the flock with non-native tongues-

  Man suspects such a prognosis has been paid in gold-

   

  For in the minds of men all solutions are gold-

  Even those wrought of platinum or uranium out in the open-

  Rings or bombs all rolling off laconic human tongues-

  Now look at these frozen geese-

  Frozen black against the water's edge ferns-

  Feeling yet another way to go to ground-

   

  Things still connected to nature share a common ground-

  The fox, the owl, the beaver care not for gold-

  Nor do those sage and sacred ferns-

  Yet man does not always leave his window open-

  And so would not guess at an assassination by geese-

  Nor to be probed by leafy fingers and tongues-

   

  Nature sent forth missionaries speaking in tongues-

  They tried to bring all to that common ground-

  But if all else failed they had the geese-

  Man and magpie care for gems and gold-

  They refuse to keep their minds open-

  But the rest of nature yeilds to those leafy fronded ferns-

   

  So wise and learned are those ferns-

  They whisper in all tongues-

  They can help other minds to open-

  Like fronds above the ground-

  They've no love for the dead man's gold-

  They find guilt with humanity, not geese-

   

  Now my third eye is open, and I hear the whispering ferns-

  Great suicide geese tell me secrets in tongues-

  A single one can bring to ground a jet with no concern for the humans' gold.

   

   

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