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Ron Conway Dec 2019
The rain un-purposed pounding carpet bombs
Frozen daggers crippling November
Transcendental thought no longer calms
If there's reason to despair I can't remember
                                                     rc
Ron Conway Dec 2019
So once there was a kindly boy
Concerned with art and life.
His wit and pen were sharper
Than his mother's butcher knife.
                
His kindness wasn't well received
By those he called his peer
Who roughed him up and called him names,
That caused him pain severe.
                

But he did not respond in kind.
He let the insults slide.
That's not to say he would forget.
Payback would be supplied.
                
Our boy was quite ingenious.
He planned reprisal well.
He kept his focus to himself;
A silent tolling knell
                

These guys had pretty girlfriends
But their ardour was amiss.
They didn't know that knowledge could
Contribute to their bliss.
                
By studying the art of love
(And all of the mechanics)
He paired this with some scarlet ink,
Producing co-dynamics.
                

He worked his project long and hard
(The irony forgiven)
Until he had a missive that
Resembled  passion's heaven.
                
He wrote of carnal fervency
And zealous jungle love.
He wrote of things that people don't
Admit they're thinking of.
                

The guys weren't really much for words;
His poetry dismissing.
The women were and when they read,
They knew what they were missing.
                
It wasn't long before the girls
Were seeking greener grass.
The guys were left exposed as if
A pheasant under glass.
                

He sees them now quite often at
The Chick-fil-A drive through.
It causes him to think about
The Karma we accrue.
                *
Life has it's way of straightening
Imbalance it would seem
And he was getting luckier
Than they could ever dream.
                                      rc
Ballad
Ron Conway Dec 2019
The miniature philosophunculist
Grew plants of the genus ranunculus
The sweet buttercup
He examined close up
As he was a wee homounculus
                                  rc
limerick
Ron Conway Oct 2019
The landscape narrows to a sharpened point
In grasp of fall's lost memory of spring
Flowing reeds and grass of every kind
Muddy shore where lilies once did  lie
Underwater snags I know so well
Aspen leaves afloat on reckless current

The sky alight it strikes a vicious current
Like mother nature's exclamation point
Startled, though the spirit knows **** well
The heart restarts as if upon a spring
Vivid hues confront the silent lie
Nature is not always good and kind

The night evokes dreams of a different kind
Triggering your demons past and current
You might not know just were the secrets lie
Don't waste your time in search; you'll miss the point
Take your water from the flowing spring
You'll never know which one's the poisoned well

In case you think that life is going well
Think why there are no other of your kind
You may never find eternal spring
Where gentle breezes blow in spiral current
A spider draws its net from point to point
In centre of another's death bed lie

We contemplate the stars 'low which we lie
So vast the distance yet still seen so well
Against pure darkness shines the smallest point
The universe becomes so coldly kind
Our souls an interruption in the current
So from our beating hearts will joy now spring

Ideas launch like from a coiled spring
They only serve to perpetrate the lie
You squander time and effort to be current
Now I see you've drunk from tainted well
The choice is not to be true or be kind
We could try to fix this thing but what's the point

when rage the current from the meagre spring
we reach the very point where promise lie
whenever all is well, we're paid in kind
                                                       rc
Ron Conway Sep 2019
Pick anyone's incised name
Ordinance finds the evening near
Vague expressions illicit little sympathy
Equally valuing each reeking yesterday
Reaping earnest adjustments - limits in the yoke
Tender honour always takes sacrifice
Yet our unconsciousness reigns supreme
Pain often veils every reality that's yours
Vertical and horizontal acrostic
Ron Conway Sep 2019
The wind in brooding moda
Gives a sing song salutation
As spoken through the rusted fencing wires
Meadow grass awash in waves and currents
Dragonflies are seagulls on the swells
Tree tops move in cresting undulations
Limb and trunk impressed in shaky ground
I watch the moving water
Like it's telling all my stories
The river only ever flowing past
The river only ever flows away
                                        rc
Ron Conway Sep 2019
It's transient aphasia
When the bullets only graze ya
And nobody can save ya
From the fog

And you think that it's a tumour
In a twist of Satan's humour
And you feel that you will lose your
Dialogue

Then the gathering frustration
At the failed interpretation
As nobody in the nation
Feels your pain

I know my head's imperfect
I will need some time to work it
It's just a slight short circuit
In my brain
                                rc
Transient Aphasia
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