Charles
Ray of light
Artist who dares
To draft paper clouds
For ancestral blue herons
Elegant Ardea Herodias
Dance on air
Climbing circular currents
Along limestone cliffs
At the end of one world
Another begins
Within your Mind Palace
Your shoulders have widened
From carrying
Trials and tribulations
Hod
Rough and heavy
Raw word blocks sit
Ready to be chiseled
Masterful masonry
In Wisdom’s temple
Thrones do not exist
Instead, at its centre
An alterocentric spoke-wheel
Sheer centrifugal force
Spins stiff spires
Of truth and justice
Into blurred, soft shadows
Multitudinous philosophies blend
Into one whirring truth
As hummingbird wings
Defy human sight
Living jewels float, aloft
Reed-like tongues lap nectar
From endless blossoms
In peak majesty
Nurtured with care
By gentle gardeners
Longing for the time
Riverbank rest is granted
Alongside Whitman
For now, here you hold
Greek council of one
Honourably ensconced
Interposing the stretch
Between concrete ghettos
And soulless suburbia
Diogenes the Cynic
In your clay jar
Searching for
Honest men
I know one
Turn inward
He is there
Already established
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For C. Rommial Butler
About the Creator
Aspen Marie
In love with life and all of its foibles.
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