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Ron Conway Jan 2020
I think about the little stuff,
The things you cannot see;
Invisible, but sure enough
A drop contains a sea.

Motes are distant galaxies,
Impossibly beyond,
Through interstice a strategy
To span the gap is spawned.

Perhaps a better microscope
Could help us see within,
A kingdom for a misanthrope
The tenets underpin.

Many of us think that there
Is life in outer space
And maybe they are well aware
Of human kind's disgrace.

It's infinitely likely that
Humanity's demise,
Will come from unknown places at
The nearest reach of size.
                              rc
Little Stuff
Ron Conway Jan 2020
Is stupid as subjective
as the stupid say it is?
Perhaps we could examine
with an interactive quiz.

Do you feel that your opinion
on what constitutes a sin
has higher valuation
with the lightness of your skin?

Yes (  )  No (  )

Do you feel that war is justified
when governments have willed,
so long as it is other people's
children being killed?

Yes (  )  No (  )

Do you feel that your religion
is the only line to God
but tolerate the other ones
although you think they're odd?

Yes (  )  No (  )

I'm told that it is not correct
to tell someone they're stupid.
It's something I'm compelled to do
as long as I stay lucid.
                                          rc
Quiz
Ron Conway Jan 2020
Feather pillows smooth the ground's discord
The ragged shack a fairy mansion now
An eagle cries so not to be ignored
All memories of fall we disavow

Staccato breaths push tiny clouds aloft
Like frozen words afloat without an ear
The existential angst of spirit lost
They're barely here before they disappear

Branches bend as far as they can bear
From deep within the woods we hear a moan
A grievance they reluctantly declare
Otherwise they stoic'ly intone

Your feeling of despair will soon allay
When walking woods upon a snowy day
                                                  rc
Sonnet
Ron Conway Jan 2020
a happy new year
best wishes to all of you
no resolutions
                           rc
Happy New Year
Ron Conway Dec 2019
Just in case you hadn't noticed
Existence is a paradox
Don't mean this as a metaphor
But I am really in a box

I haven't been around that much
Just in case you hadn't noticed
Been buried under all this weight
I've been somewhat less than focused

I don't mean to be a bother
But my skelebones are showing
Just in case you hadn't noticed
Frigid winds of time are blowing

I'm breaking up but that's a break
From this sameness and psychosis
I'm right here if you look for me
Just in case you hadn't noticed
                            rc
This poem is a "quatern":
A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. ... The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme.
Ron Conway Dec 2019
When darkness speaks,
It says, the night is ever long;
But comes the dawn.
When speak the seas,
They say the storm is evermore;
But comes the calm.
                                 rc
Darkness
Ron Conway Dec 2019
At Christmas there isn't much joy
For a homeless young woman or boy
So don't look away
As the feelings they splay
Are the coping skills that they employ
Christmas Limerick
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