The Great Race
a fable so grand
a race at hand
not fast and slow
but slow and slower
no rabbit or fox
just two lingering jocks
athletes of the mile
that takes quite a while
two gastropod molluscs
one with shell, the other so brusque
twenty-seven days
nine hours
forty-seven minutes
and sixteen seconds...I praise
those glorious mugs
with the dare of slugs
and quiet racers
behind the pacers
never to derail
the stability of snail
the snail won
by point zero one
it was a rainy track
and though he went slack
the shell helped him slide
downhill to collide
with the finish line stone
while the throng caused a drone
amazement at speed
a record indeed
beat old one by a day
what is there to say?
a hero was born
a lei to adorn
when asked for reaction
he had a retraction...
DBP 10-11-14
Dungeon of Phantoms
An apparition
defining sentience
spectre visible
or a manifestation
Instinctive necromancy
ritual magic
dreaming of ghost trains
and phantom ships in fomency
Dancing wraiths
appearing as before
unnatural, undesirable`
a white mist of breath
In omen or portent
The Flying Dutchman
no port is found
swirling waves of sound
A vortex of haze
mutinies of spirit
suicide of riches
a soul remains unfazed
Masking identity
balls of trickery
device in amour
in garb and armour
Ghost hunters anew
stirred by gothic malevolence
and sillhouetted terror
we chose our ride askew
Homer's Odyssey, a journey
of underworld caverns acheron
lined with vampirous bats
edge of world, closed to sun
The hungry Yidag in stagger
throat so tiny
stomach so large
in ritualistic dagger
Violent death
a premise consoled
and Krasue looking tame
our fears revised to blame
Pontianak and Penanggalan
liberation from perilous infinity
dying as birth
flying head in twinkling girth
"The Unquiet Grave"
mourning in peace
creating unrest
restless to never cease
Troubling others
energy absorbed to pother
some are dormant
dead ghosts I apply
...infectious to end
DBP 10-10-14
The Stain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Wain
the stain I refrain
is to show off the grain
but naked is just as good
finely contoured as it should
blonde and ash is nice
saddle and chesnut does suffice
it makes me feel cozy
a happy message so rosey
insinuation of simple man
appreciating nature as we can
Chrysler Town and Country cars antique
panelled sides with mystique
rec room walls so adorned
a sixties fetish, now is mourned
stereos and televions now are black
but once had grain, alas alack
even appliances had that look
when harvest gold helped you cook
so whether maple, oak, or pine
it all looks perfectly fine
DBP 8-5-14
Black Streak in Yellow
The Bracebridge 5477
a sister retinue
at half past eleven
honking and bellowing
surging through the gorge
the bedrock awoken in the forge
virtually a tremor
the windows shake
the ornaments clatter
some think in fictional chatter
but no it's real
the next at 3 AM
announcing arrival
joy so proud and loud
streaking through darkness
invading the starkness
an invincible metal snake
causing enormous rattle
the wondrous tattle
a ghost in vision
maybe an empty incision
trackless
with no destination
falling
a cliff to back and forth
the train diving into
future and past
long and winding
our sentiment binding
9-12-14 DBP
FAREWAYS
winged hackneys
six wheels for hire
bumper to bumper
never to tire
unless of course
the fare to rise
the cost of fuel
a partial disguise
losing direction in madness
roaming over sandy swales
learning to fly
ready to crash in bales
alternative energy, one idea
but many others need prevail
more than roads
are needed in rail
Ideas and passion
with a goal for emancipation
of being crowded in travel
we must free our station
the dunes that we dodge
seem meaningless in dream
as we detour in confusion
to gather on stream
so let us journey
together with binding
joined together
with imagination's findings
DBP 9-20-14
Dory Story
The little boats
in nature so made
softer and sweeter
than man's facade
Reminding me of Rupert's
way back home
the shining empress
a sliding daily express
Coming from wonderland
in a cloudless sky
the surface a blanket
and bed of sand
To Nutwood sweet
and magical Morwenna
the floaters meet
misty eyed in trance
Glass waters sing so clear
when clanged with
feathers tips
bowing to the cries of fear
Anthropomorphic musings
in circular rings
Love with peace
utopian dreams
DBP 9-19-14
The Ride
Some may think
the ride on ferris
repetitive to embarrass
boring in story
Same things while spinning
a resisting beginning
but NO
each time you come
to the same spot, ho hum
it is later
and the air is anew
The people above
and people below
have aged somewhat
unaware of their rut
The news is changing
in seconds rearranging
and other rides
are breaking...as time bides
Some winning at bingo
others angry in defeat
but I am seeing world
from this rather high seat
And the weather is altering
from low to high
or the other way around, sigh
...and round is the issue
after all it's a wheel
and that's a big big deal!
9-25-14
Flying Erik
Icelandic excursions
are tales all wrong
Erik the Red travelled
by airship unravelled
The son of Þorvald Ásvaldsson
the dragon explorer
three years in exile, unfair
in nine-eighty-two
Strung by rumoured air
Golden tassles so weak
the journey snapping
ribbons flowing
Fire breating on strapping
Cut to celebrate,
settlements in mystery
keeping his setstokkr
Ornamented beams his joker
his card to faith
the "thing" that matters
rigid in seams that clatter
His battered vision
spirit broken by prison
but Greenland his home
Leif Ericson to Vinland
Borrowing the car
dreams to afar
Vinland his star
not fearing frost
For hydrogen lost
to Snaefell and into Hrafnsfjord
and Eystribyggð he roared
the paramount chieftain
...so incorrigible, his dirigible
history has soared!
DBP 9-28-14
Disappearence
Kyshtym disaster
plutonium prophecy in boom
signalling doom
so recklessly ignored
waste delivered
to river Ob, ill bout
a giant cloud of fallout
contaminated hope
twenty-two villages to grave
ten-thousand forced to surrender
dreams that misunderstood corruption
trusting Zhores Medvedev to save
but numbers don't tell
of hate and greed
or the planted seed
of unabated fear
maybe truth in part
but Eurt, another story
newborn Aleshenka
left behind no carte
in a rotting covered cradle
refracted molecules
relocated to Zinaidia
no soup to ladle
radio waves created
extra-terrestrial bound
high frequency sound
the visitors came
to rescue young waif
beautiful to them
an unconquered race
she is now a queen
celebrated with festivals of bean
far beyonds Jupiter beam
she will return at end times
9-18-14
Popular Belief
What the heck is popular belief
we read of it in apparent relief
we perceieve them as "they"
am I a member?
of this exclusive club
or am I some rub
a great thinker
worthy of statue
or am I a rare humanitarian
I think not (though glarian)
It is concluded that
"they" are created
a populace sedated
made to buy
goods and false investments
Many have taste
I never dream in haste
as the illusions of hope
accompany the truth
so I pay testament
to those who know
and ignore what told
because our minds and spirit
are independent turrets
right is famous
and famous is right
as love is connectd
and lies interjected
DBP 9-18-14
Argument on a Woody Background
two faces
grained in conflict
hair ablaze
brows so braised
one is blaspheming
the other perturbed
eyes wide open
expecting to be blurbed
symbolized by trophy
background on woody plate
did they live to tell
of this angered quell?
DBP 4-7-14
Nonapi
the Saami
speaking Uralik
legend rooted
in Finno-Ugric
many places
from Denmark east
to Kola Peninsula
herding beast
special permission
hunting reindeer
in remission
tradition to "endeer"
the meaning of title
unknown in recital
some say some cloth
a patch for mending
circumpolar man
some in sea
some in mountain
fishing and trapping in jubilee
sadly segregated
mission to seclude
and black death
did invade their include
beautiful colours
to celebrate the marriage
man and nature
birth of winters carriage
leather sinews
curled toes
red and blue
luhkka so true
appliques so vivid
greens and whites
beads and shawls
climbing in heights
joyous in Yoikjoik
Kautokeino community
and rejoicing at Ljungris
shamanic drums in rhythmic impunity
Healing in animism
anger to resolve
passion in heritage
and dignity to devolve
DBP 9-8-14
