For years I believed
They foisted lies upon me
Light comes to me now
Even unto the world’s end
You are not deserting me
Copyright Francis 2020
Tanka: ‘Unto the End’
Tag: poems
Haiku: ‘Rock’
Altars are destroyed
My faith must remain a rock
Blotting out the lies
Copyright Francis 2020
Haiku: ‘Biblical’
It is biblical
Just read the signs of our times
Choose sides carefully
Copyright Francis 2020
Haiku: ‘Winter’s Arrival’
Snowfall’s frozen tears
Icing on infested earth
Solstice turn around
Copyright Francis 2020
The Beast
I conspire with the beast.
Two or three times a day
I must feed my best friend,
this cuddly saturnine feline
such processed packets of slaughter,
which I dispense without
thought into his bowl.
He is the innocent;
it is I who flagrantly
intervenes in nature, my acquiescence
muffling screams — and my conscience.
And what am I
but a lapsed frugivore,
a hypocrite with hippie affectations
who dares to profess that he cares?
*The beast is not the cat but the ‘system’.
Copyright Francis 2020
Meat — Jane Dougherty Writes (Reblog)
We have made this world coldpitiless and cruel. The dark called up or downor dragged from the abysswraps wet winged arms about uscradling some in their desired blindness while the hallowed beam that glowsshows to those with open eyesonly our hypocrisy and the killing fieldsbeneath bone-light.
Meat — Jane Dougherty Writes
Haiku: ‘Wasp’
Lies take many forms
Deception rules evil lands
But the sting will win
Copyright Francis 2020
Travelling in the Wilderness (Tanka)
Family strangers
Youngest — I am odd one out
Mission accomplished
Hurled into this mad, mad world
Did I really choose this fate?
Copyright Francis 2020
*Poetics dVerse.
Haiku: ‘December’
December is here
Like no December has been
Hold on to your hats
Copyright Francis 2020
Trekkie Addict (Quadrille)
In another dimension
a science fiction buff
might be prized.
Both generations of Star Trek,
scripts known verbatim,
dramas wrought
from billions
and parsecs,
all sheer make-believe:
I cannot abide it.
So which side is up in space?
I’m passed the Van Allen belts
Copyright Francis 2020
dVerse — Quadrille 117 — The Dude Abides
I am a bit of a Trekkie addict — but is it absurd?
Haiku: ‘Disclosure’
The worlds underground
Darkness coming to the light
Nothing can stop it
Copyright Francis 2020
