Of lovers and madness

windshield art i30 heart Mt Wombat forest canopy
Love is oft mad
at least it is common
for those who are in love
to behave madly most often

whether love at first sight
or as an earned right
love’s haze can refuse
the darkest of midnights
to acknowledge or confuse
bright beauteous light

thus driving one to action
bound later for redaction



for as Shakespeare said
in lines wise writ and read
“Things bad and vile, holding no quantity
love can transpose to form and dignity.”

Ref: A Midsummer Night’s Dream II 232-233

Watching the moon

Watching the moon, grey dust, hard stone. 
Why won’t the moon leave me alone?
I watch to see if the old man there,
will he ever release me from his stare.
I dream the moon will fall to earth,
moon’s death rattle, our deadly curse.

The sun has got to do something about
that moonish sneer on that moon face snout
before kamikaze moon’s suicidal spiral
rings our bells and rattles our bones,
shakes and quakes our earthly home.
Mr Moon up there is become one with hell,
the Devil’s doing, a catastrophic bombshell.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
I watch the moon
I must I must!