Pilgrim’s Progress
Why not state the obvious for a change
that we are all solar powered
for example
or that we are all astronauts
launched into orbit at the hour of our birth
that there is no such thing as outer space
that even the inner space of consciousness
is hurtling through the solar system
at an unthinkable speed ?
Bride and groom honeymooning
on the beach
starry eyed as they gaze up
at their ancestors embroidered
into the night’s rich tapestry
and thankful for a marriage
literally made in the heavens
Who taught the galaxies to sing
who taught the stars to cry out at birth
or to die with a whimper
who put poetry into the mouths of babes
and beauty into the eye of the beholder ?
Cryptic messages wherever we look
the restaurant in the Miami Airways motel
shortly after Hurricane Andrew
‘Food to go’
as we are all here to go
consumed on the hoof
pilgrims bound for an unknown shrine
a pause in our journey to tell tales
to sing songs
to while away the hours
until we reach our final destination
Thirteen ways of observing
four and twenty blackbirds
baked in a pie
wasn’t that a dainty dish !
John Lyons