Modes and Manners

Modes and manners, genres and genesis,
harmonize, blend, and match, stretch, spring and stand,
genres and manners, provoke, pervade, and percolate.

Postulates, protruding and prominent entanglements,
predicaments and quandaries,
and the boundaries, necessities and provisions,
are not the agents to sustain, nurture, and protract,
nor, to persist and perpetuate,
but, to hone, refine, and whet.

Paradoxes and ironies, the resolves and purposes,
rationales and functions, surround and besiege,
intrigues and allures, charismas and appeals,
shall nurture, tally and square,
The pendulum’s move, strides to amend and enrich.

Symphonies and opuses, sonatas and masterpieces,
instigate, commend, and coach,
to tally, count, and coincide.

The goals, dreams, and marvels, the mantles and the rims,
march the mesa of abandoned fields, drought and famine.

The winds blow, storms shatter, and forest fires ravage,
wrecks and remains, plunders and pillages,
and the griefs, laments, and sorrows.

Ironic, poignant, and caustic fallouts and havocs—
appalling and shocking dramas, tragedies,
the leftover ashes, embers and powders, to linger,
the feeblest, limpest victims to blows and zephyrs.

While, dedications, ardors, the feats and deeds,
conquer, capture, and seize,
and when, the unison, unanimity,
accompany, the demands and dreams.

Then, mandates insist, instigate and arise,
the trails and rails, rebound, recover, and mend—
to awaken, the lugging ashes and ambers,
to rally and redeem.

Devotees, protagonists, admirers and adherents,
rejoice the fountains, the sources and the wells,
conjure invocations, the intervals and sessions.

Purposes, targets and ambitions,
Shimmers, flickers, glistens and glitters,
tweak and pinch, nip and twist,
to jolt and nudge the abandoned fields.

Their open arms, the hugs and cuddles,
the mystical and numinous rafters and girders,
the leftover remnants, the ashes and embers,
how could they be endured, or to seek the joists.

The time passage by, will wholly inure,
the phoenix’s urge, submerge in ashes,
then the tick reveals, harbingers blow,
phoenix has surpassed, docile hurdles.

Pursue the moments, congeal the gestures,
zeal, ardor, and fervor, surmount the postures,
Then with your urges, stich the ruptures.