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Beautiful Schemer
by Philip F De Pinto
For lazy Susan sister's sake
Don't make a mistake
Thinking flowers can't enlist
Enough petals to make a fist
and shake
At stake is a lizard
Not figuring to elicit
A strange twist
In the rock that has been
Living under me
A shadow weaning on the upright tits
Of my chandelier
Where smoke and mirrors
Need not apply
Nor fear
For the vocation of illicit rhyme
Takes no time to glean and fade
And so - Beautiful Schemer
Which side of the platitude are you on
Should you glide your finger
Along the foreshortening
Should love or the love me knot in the would
Have been steer clear or opaque
Of the ripening of an age
In which you will not be cleaning out its cage
But younger rage rage
Against the budding falsehood on the page
Rage against the lizards and flowers which
Were not born but made in the shade
To fade indicative of any
Which can enlist
Sufficient petals to make a fist
and shake
Or elicit
A strange twist
In the rock that has been
Living under me
05/05/2013 Posted on 05/05/2013
Copyright © 2024 Philip F De Pinto
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 05/05/13 at 10:38 PM I love the flow and rhyme scheme of this Philip. You've out done yourself here. |
| Posted by Maria Francesca on 05/06/13 at 12:28 PM Fun and Brilliant! |
| Posted by Elizabeth Shaw on 05/06/13 at 02:32 PM Your chameleon is quite the schemer ... "weaning on the teats of its chandelier" now that is one line I'll never forget & love! dig its tap tap tapping pressure foot, it's eyes like tiny ovules of sunshine - this pollinating bliss. |
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