Anthony Pierre

Aug 2020

Anais Nin

Risk

And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.

Anthony Pierre Aug 2020

Gibberish

She spoke gibberish
words I did not understand
We shared great laughter

Anthony Pierre Aug 2020

Stella in Moonlight

When the sunlight fades
She creeps out in the darkness
Stellar in her ways

Anthony Pierre Aug 2020

Svetlana's Secrets

Monkeys in Minsk monastery
On Great Alexander's lakes
Svetlana's Scepter ... Svetlana's Spectre
without August in Lithuania
on my assumption feast
What an entanglement!

Anthony Pierre Aug 2020

Vladimir's Vainglorious Vaccine

Vaccine
Viciously Vaulting
Gamaleya's Gladness
Intermittent Immunity
Twofold Technique
Biennial Boundary
Sputnik V

Anthony Pierre Aug 2020

Ode in a Bottle

The foamy seaside surf retreats
on broken waves, replete
with inebriated words
sober hearts
surrender
❤

Anthony Pierre Aug 2020

Cornelius Nepos' Last Tweet

... and the concordance of history is best illustrated in the words of the 21st century emperor himself ... "# flagged for violent content".

Cornelius Nepos the historian and biographer