Sayings For Sale viii
Posted: April 30, 2015 Filed under: Writings by one ambidextrous... 6 Commentsa little lesson for the poor pen persons…
notice there are words behind every item you purchase
be one of those that write them
that way – you may just be able to get by
and perhaps even fatten up your purse
as for all those other words…
they are nothing but products of the writers’ curse
and will most likely never sell, regardless what they’re worth
so there’s little sense in continuing to try…
© Heath Muchena, 2015
Passion Police
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Words In Imaginary Motion 5 Commentsnone too soon that her and I wanted to be alone
but the incarnate Jerome of Rome was in the room
as though there was nowhere else for him to roam
and so, a sort of passion police he’d become
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why write?
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Writings by one ambidextrous... 19 Commentsthe art form
is not incorruptible
but it has proved dominant in the sphere of the perpetuation of influence
and the artist, in some attempt to preserve a fragment of self, material, or whatever else
chooses to write
often to his plight
© Heath Muchena, 2015
To Paint A Saint
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Words In Imaginary Motion 8 Commentspraise one can accept
but to be ordained… please, no! I’m just a man
and one can’t help but think of the saints
take Augustine for instance…
one can trace back to his days in Carthage
when Manichaeism and scepticism were the ways
before he read Cicero’s works
before Ambrose baptised both him and his bastard Adeodatus…
even ’til his very end
who was with him at the time of his death? was it not Count Boniface?
the same man who invited Genseric and his Vandals into Africa…
that one even feels it vulgar to mention the bloody consequence
so praise I can accept
but to be ordained… please, no! I’m just a man
© Heath Muchena, 2015
A Night Shadow in Arabia
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Words In Imaginary Motion 1 Commenteven the beautiful and wealthy matron Chadizah
wanted to know if he saw her beauty
and when the prophet did, despite his spectral illusions
she became the first believer
© Heath Muchena, 2015
45.3
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Writings by one ambidextrous... 3 Commentsthere is as much ignorance in tradition
as there is intelligence in invention and a new beginning
but both are of indispensable utility
© Heath Muchena, 2015
Pleasure in Platonia iv
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Inhibitions Illustrated 7 Commentsshe said I could hold her but not have her
I asked why
“ this… what we’ve got… it’s new… best keep it platonic… least for the time being” she responded.
“ uh huh!… looks like I’ve finally found my Hypatia” I said.
“ oh, shut up heathen!” she quipped, “ where do you think we are, Alexandria?”
© Heath Muchena, 2015
45.2
Posted: April 28, 2015 Filed under: Writings by one ambidextrous... 3 Commentsweighing the odds is only helpful if it suggests to you the options…
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Unsettled
Posted: April 28, 2015 Filed under: Inhibitions Illustrated 15 Commentsautumn night backyard garden sit-down
gives a nostalgia
of the time back at Carne Place, in Port Solent
where I rented a small space by the water
with my best friend
and I had a lover
other than that, not much else…
still, I lived by the gods’ graces
but there I made love atop the stairs, and in the garden…
smoked haze and wrote poems and plays when I wasn’t working or having a laze
that was the routine, the pattern
then I decided I needed a change
and even shed tears when I left her
and so many years later
on this autumn night garden sit-down
I’m reminded of those unsettled carefree days
the paradox
© Heath Muchena, 2015
On The Heath 