Olfactory Memory Compendium ( continuation of 'pen' series )

Olfactory Memory Com'pen'dium

The scent of fresh grass baking in the sun

brings back memories of wild, naked fun

fragrant strawberry fields that tweak the mind

during a stroll through them, you find

Memories captured by the nose

that make you tingle from head to toes

Autumn brings the smell of burning leaves

combined with the musty bouquet of plowed fields

that await winters' crisp chilled air

soaked with that aroma so fair

funny, how every ones common comment

lives in that sensation, so fervent

the smell of baked apple pie

bubbling tomato sauce and French fries

every home contains distinct odors

special recalls that in your mind lingers

makes you feel comfy sipping a hot toddy

closing your eyes and smelling memories

at Christmas time 'tis the scented pine

making you feel so fine

then, if you're so lucky

to be in Summer by the sea

that breezy salty aroma

will certainly cast a spell on ya

Thendara Pensive ( continuation of 'pen' series )

Thendara Pensive ( rewrite )

Inside Thendara under capricious skies

is where the mountain hemlock

stands tall as the eagle flies

and the stately Canada geese flock

my Great Canadian red canoe parting

glass-like sparkling fluid

pure, perfect water droplets dripping

from my finely sculpted paddle blade

I see the depth there found

of the blue heavens reflected

from the dark bottomed pond

joy is brought to senses animated

Blue-encased Boreal forest

soaked in the fluid light of soul balm

sun struck verdant clearing to the West

gives one a sense of calm

as the soundless forest and glades

amplify the perception of nature

magnified as the afternoon light fades

behind mountain tops sheathed in firs

all within this forest rim

bringing about dreamy chimera

to soften mindful yearnings

That's vita in magical Thendara

Dispensible..?? ( continuation of 'pen' series )

Dispensable...???

From my patio, I see a steeple on the hill

concrete reality of a religion frozen still

I'm momentarily distracted by a hawk silently flying

to a tall tree and quietly perching

Both form an image in my field of vision

as I perceive their existence and connection

one is full of life and beautiful to behold

the other near death, hardly a pulse and cold

the steeple topped with a shiny cross

a magnet for the residents below, now forever lost

religious attraction once spellbinding

to those believing in salvation coming

now stands silent like an empty shell

no more sound coming from its cheerful bells

the hawk and the steeple in silent existence

wait for some sign to provide sustenance

I know that the hawk will survive

for it has the will to continue and strive

the other in its glory splashed in gold and frills

the church with the steeple on the hill

won't live to ease the souls of common men

and be their salvation in their life spent...

Spend Fountain...( continuation of 'pen' series )

S'pen'd Fountain (rewrite)

I notice teeming concentrations of humanity

under the illumination of irony

their cretinous bankers offering bliss

urging them to drink while making a wish

swallow hardy the offered libation

flowing from the fountain of self-satisfaction

their vitriol masked in rhetorical brilliance

as the seeds or injustice and ignorance

take root in abstract declarations

forcing us into farcical desperation

must we continue to endure

that tasteless beverage less than pure

should we not analyze, critique and evaluate

lifting from our minds the masquerade

learn to develop the hubris of Marsyas

unite as one and rise from the morass

and drink no more from that fountain unfit

the source of our financial bottomless pit

Upend ( continuation of 'pen' series...)

Upend

World youth of today, where is your tomorrow

if not in political overthrow

you may be doomed for certainty

to the terror of daily conformity

think of what freedoms given away

by convenient disconnect everyday

you're living in borrowed comfort

within the systems' world of hurt

be aware of what is said

as repressive tolerance feeds your head

beware of what is left out

that's sapping your united clout

Economies, politics and ancient ideology

await your structure and policy

Messianic resurrection is much needed

to abolish the system that renders you dead

So, youth of today

wake up and have your say

make our world better

your time is now or never...