dead stars flashback the rest must rise
to an unknown helplessness
an earthbound memory
savanna to tundra
each day a commanded homage
to kao tao of fate
to its fled ancestor
but i brimmed in apocalypse under the welter of bones
yield to the inevitable
in its charnel house brain
as panic stricken packs sudden rain blaze
an earthbound memory
thwarted in its choked cry
ancestor in its death but inevitable more than bones
sudden rain blazed dead stars
a homage to until it fled in its brain
each day commanded brimmed in apocalypse
to yield to the flashback with the rest
the welter choked cry charnel house
as panic stricken packs
kao tao of fate
savanna to tundra
i must rise to an unknown helplessness
each day commanded of fate
i must rise to an earthbound
memory to kao tao yield to the inevitable
more than a homage to death to an unknown helplessness
brimmed in apocalypse
i flashback to my then thwarted ancestor
its choked cry as sudden rain
blazed in its brain
until it fled with the rest panic stricken packs
savanna to tundra
under the welter of dead stars charnel house of bones
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk, Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)