nature

Escape Velocity

Don’t be fooled

Don’t be fooled

You were born to grow

Don’t be fooled

Don’t fail the Test

Don’t second guess and slow

Don’t be fooled

Don’t falter

Don’t pretend that you don’t know

The only way to reach it

Is to hold tight and let go

Plummy

This is the first day

This is the ripest plum

This day pierces the ruby skin

Of all the rest to come

Green

I press my hand into the ground

The God of Science shall compound

And so your hand will feel my rush

In waves of light, of love, of lush

To the Lip

The moon asked me to fill your cup

With yarns and rhymes from sailors’ sups

Each time your soul doth take a sip

You’ll fill hers up back to the lip

Libertas Virtuti

The moon told me we must stay true

To what makes me, me, and what makes you, you

If we can hold on, steadfastly

We’ll know libertas virtuti

The Sun Erstwhile

The Sun erstwhile waited

For the Moon to glow

He waxed and waned,

And wooed and wailed

But she never showed

Only

Only that Sunday afternoon

Only an early taste of June

Only a pause which grew too long

Only a Buddy Holly song

Only the sunlight through her blouse

Only the fluster he could rouse

Only his hand lifting her chin

Only the first she’d felt his skin

Only Time stretching in bliss

I only take with me that kiss

Wolf

Sure as the Atlantic tide

Sure as MY Cam will collide

Sure as winter harbours spring

Sure as ends are beginnings

Sure as I could ever be,

That moon will bring you back to me

Yellow Roses

We lived in every colour

The full spectrum of ourselves

Still now, when I see roses

Yellow are for no one else

Orange Glow

He thinks of her when the sun shines brightest

Somehow, she will know

To close her eyes and meet a moment

In the orange glow