PRECARIOUS EXISTENCE

Stormy hurricane-force winds are coming.

 Whipping rain threatens.

 Between heaven's vault and creating earth,

 raging voices are raging!

 Bullets of glass, teardrops of tears,

 bounce from the sad eyes of windows.

 On the ridges of muscular spines

 the dagger makes paths,

 On the backs of rocks the lightning

 with its needle-tooths presses,

 Heavenly obscurity.

 With eager embracing arms ever clinging,

 The lurking ivy seeks safety and shelter:

 Young and unconscious lovers

 can only thus long For the embracing 

To the island of peace and safety, Harmony!

 In gluttony insatiable in greed,

 Armies of slugs threaten the potato fields in alarm.

 The ladybirds in their red-spotted

 skirts would dance in vain now.

 The countryside is trembling

 and writhing in uncertainty!

 Pear-apples and peaches are still

 growing, ever

 more vibrant and juicy. 

The Omnipotence is everywhere present and watching!

 Time is doomed to die,

 and system as law is finally preserved!

 - I have tried to discover Truth

 in the constellations of chocolate-eyes;

 Only later did I find it,

 I came too late for the end!

 I hear: in a verdant garden, 

the lifeless existence gnaws,

 pulls, pulls, pulls its worn-out limbs,

 the chubby worms fecundly digest

 the juicy stumps of the golden apples of the Hesperides: 

and the insatiable strife has already broken out!

 Thy clinging stings pinch 

thy flushing cheeks, thy nerve-cells:

 Thou dost stretch thy preying

 sweet-tooth to Edenic nectars!

 - In existence, man sniffs out secrets,

 puzzles out mysteries! 

Reviews

[Vol]

Tasi83
I REALLY enjoyed reading your poem. You have a delightful poetic insight. I spent a long portion of my life in Florida, and have been through many hurricanes, even lost our house to one, so I feel your intense treatment of the experience. And isn't it true that they DO, in fact, obscure heaven while while we are lying huddled in whatever meager protection we can find.
There is also the pervasive feeling we carry of impending doom coming at us from every direction, from covid to Ukraine, to China flexing her muscles. But... Romans 5:3 "And that’s not all. We are full of joy even when we suffer. We know that our suffering gives us the strength to go on. 4 The strength to go on produces character. Character produces hope. 5 And hope will never let us down. God has poured His love into our hearts. He did it through the Holy Spirit."
Vol

[Tasi83]

Dear Vol! Thank you very much!