Tournament of Thin Air

Creation, conception, commencement, notions, formations, and beliefs,
surroundings and besieging ether, the floating skies and heavens,
salute, greet and gesture, participants, elements and entities,
to adore and admire, the partakers in their communal worships,
and the perpetual adulations, devotions and venerations.

The commonality, cohesions and camaraderie,
the paramount and predominate urges and requisites, rudiments and provisions,
the constituents and bases to respire and breathe,
to inhale and exhale, the reciprocity to live and subsist,
the ether, air, the precious substance, the persistent provider of vigor and deed,
the universal existential feat to seek and perceive, the elixir to exist and live.

Still, the air, so bafflingly, uncannily, mysteriously,
entwined and entangled, the evolved altruism and compassion,
and the bewilderment, bafflement, and bemusement,
the thin air, the mere contributor, the sponsor and funder.

The mixture, potion and tonic, the perpetuator and conciliatory,
to intercede, arbitrate, interpose and intervene,
the huff and puff, and gulp and guzzle, so pertinently, fittingly,
abundantly and copiously, bestow and bequeath, afford and confer,
all to offer, the whole, unabridged, the intact bulk and essence.

The breath, grasp, the clench and clutch,
consistency, steadfastness, resoluteness,
the void, the void of, vacillations, ambivalences and hesitations,
participants, contestants and contributors of life, hope and courage.

Dreams, reveries, ambitions and desires,
salutary, secretive perpetuators and entities,
the ambits and purviews, ponderously perpetuate and preserve,
and the inquiry and review, the endurance, fortitude, and endowment,
reverberate and echo, resound and ring, take hold and persist.

And, the thin air, why it had been assigned, imputed and ascribed,
to, deeply, profoundly spread and span, the zeal and fervor,
vitality, vibe, vivacity and verve,
the pendulum yields, perpetuations adhere and abide,
and, the red roses participate in the parades,
adorned by thorns, quills, spines, bars and foils.

The puzzles and speculations, postulations, hypotheses;
is it a mirage, phantasm and figment, the existence, presence, and actuality, or—
moments pursue, jiffies to tail and hunt, the abandonment, rejection, and neglect of,
the regardless, heedless and nonetheless, twisting, and insisting agitations—

And, at core and center, crux and hub,
the erected epicenters of dedications and fervors,
the prodding and nudging lucidity, rationality, and soundness,
which, do not tilt and tip, tend and incline to tumbling, apathy and idleness.

Evolvements and encroachments, the impingements and infringements,
the horizons of rapprochements, the dawn of compromises,
the arrangements and settlements succumb and surrender,
still, it is the vitality, vigor and intensity, the animation, buoyancy and resilience,
the frail, diluted and thin air, forced to imply, denote, and exert.

The reminder, souvenir, and recap, repeat, review, and reiteration,
to remain submissive, the consent, to lodge awareness, alertness,
cognizance and sensibility,
to the throne, sovereignty, and dominance.

The bond, pledge, and oath, to curtail and inhibit the thorns, barbs, and spikes,
the devastations, wreckages, and ruins, while her adoration, assent and accession,
broach, moot, and present, the cornerstones of intents and meanings,
implications and significances, the consequences and ramifications,
the constancy, to propound, promulgate, decree, and declare.

The rays of closeness, beams of nearness, traces of imminence,
her portray and presence, her magnificence, radiance, and grandeur,
the ballet of the tap and toe, the ritual, rite and row,
the affection, amity and ardor to flourish, flaunt, and thrive —