The Nine

Selene moves slowly, into her position;

Her vision admiring his composition –

For a moment, his eyes pay her supplications;

Then, his hands continue his poetic invocations…

“O, Zeus`s and Mnemosyne`s daughters,

Nymphs of (many names) nine –

Please arise from your forgotten waters,

And impart your blessings divine.

…Clio, although other poets may omit

Your name from their knowledge of history;

This servant asks that you never forget

His words and reveal every poetic mystery…

…Thalia, continue my intellectual flourishing,

And filling this mortal heart with joy.

All desires your trumpet is nourishing;

Use this pen, as your modern envoy…

…Erato, your blessing is timidly desired.

Hesiod or Virgil – create a contemporary

(Though such status, is impossibly acquired)

Out of the engineer of this simple poetry…

…Euterpe, add my lyrics to your well of delight;

So even when, by mortals, these words are forgotten,

When this life proceeds into eternal night –

These symbols, I send to you, will not grow rotten…

…Polyhymnia, like Dante, I`ve meditated on geometry;

And with modest heart I beseech

Asking: you create congruence and sacred symmetry,

Within this respectful poet`s reach…

…Calliope, adorned with your golden crown,

Metamorphose (like Ovid) my poetic energies;

And lift my words up when they are down,

Filling each letter with joy, in all its extremities…

…Terphsichore, unload into my mind your creative store,

And find any weakness (which is rough or porous);

Smooth and fill it with strength, so these poems may endure,

Harmonious and amplified by your perfect chorus…

…Melphomene, with humility, fill every line with your melody;

Create in them a sound that resounds in another`s memory.

Let the lines linger on skins, and these stanzas replay in brains;

Like pleasant recollections of the past, or presently falling rains…

…Urania, these worn eyes stare at stars in the celestial sphere,

Into oblivion this mortal life and words continue to steer.

I pray that in the end, you and your sisters draw near;

And even if unseen, before my end, may I see your faces clear”.

Composed By: A.D.

An Experiment

The page is water, sodium the graphite;

Sodium hydroxide, each letter gives off light.

Atomic eyes are drawn to the chemical reaction,

By the laws of nature, and forces of attraction.

Every new end-rhyme forms a covalent bond,

Releasing enough fuel; increasing the energy

To a level, which is above and beyond,

Ever thought plausible through: such simple chemistry.

Notice the gravitational pull of the imagination,

Is equal to the supermassive black hole in the center

Of the galaxy… it`s an unfathomable generation,

A singularity, no return once you dare to enter.

Every new metaphor is an additional satellite;

Sent on a mission (from this atmosphere),

Each is journeying further, deeper in its long weightless flight…

…Into the unknown, with both awe and fear.

Drifting through space with much uncertainty;

Needle points threading, time and it`s fabric.

Slowly, treading waves of irradiated cosmic energy;

Obsolete allusion, the only trace is electromagnetic.

Composed By: A.D.

Implied Perspective

Silent contemplation spawns conception,

Solace amplifies truth and deception.

…The wind through the window,

The rain infringing upon the screen,

The sun and its final glow,

The little blades in shades of green,

The voices of a familiar terrestrial race

(In which the heart

Rarely takes part),

The great beyond, and celestial space…

In the passing setting, for some degree of a while,

There appears some degree of a crescent

(Moon rising, upon stoic lips) a serendipitous smile;

The veiled and revealed, both seen resplendent.

…The life and the living

The dying and death…

Together, the abstract and the concrete,

Are tinged with both honesty and deceit;

In lonely introspective time one may find,

A plethora of respective friends in the mind.

Composed By: A. D.