Submissions by MidnightSonneteer

An instability of meaning
May make conversation absurd
Where definition quarantining
Makes an invigorating word.
Mean what you say and say what you mean
And keep obfuscation at arm's length,
For honor will not respect a scene
Where prevarication is full strength...
Unless the lie therein is white,
And only a little one as well,
Because a lie of course is never right
In heaven or semantic hell...
Where translations are always quickly lost
At comprehension's operating cost.

I only see bleached bones ahead
For the entire human race;
All freshly radioactive dead
On cruise control through outer space.
They had no reason to stay alive
With God so eagerly calling them home
Where seventy seven virgins thrive
Like angels in an aerodrome!
Why keep the carcass in one piece
When afterlives are fucking great
And all the death squad hate police
We'll thank for sealing mortal fate
When all we did was waste our time
Fretting about human rights abuse
As heaven's the catch-all paradigm
For any lame...

Another vernal gibbous, waxing bright,
Governs the cold sea serpent breeze beneath;
Fixing to riot just enough tonight
To glow like candles on a Christmas wreath.
Now and then a pale hemisphere shows
To drill a stratus with persistent beams,
Only to be blocked when Zephyrus blows
Billows into Hesperidian dreams...
Where nymphs console the dragon of the west
With a radiant glory of their own...
To harmonize with Luna...opalesced,
In her zaftig phase, fortnightly flown,
Hard imbued by that ever flaming beast
Once more raising his...

Shine bright, moonlight, before you set
And briefly mingle with dawn's early light
That final glow of empyrean night
The likes of which I can't soon forget...
Even as I welcome the rising sun
Trailing the plunge of your westward drift
By antemeridian...lullaby lift...
Declaring another Earth umbrage done!
And with Morpheus too, you well conspire,
With the last of your sinking beams,
To place my soul in odd sundry dreams
Safe from Apollo's diurnal fire...
So the midnight mind may soon recover
The wits to watch you...