Poetic Triplets
A Literary Trinity
Previously Obsidian Eagle presented dual dyads of verse (Poetic Twins; linked at the end). Today we’re going to continue on that sequential track by doing a three-for-one special!
Each Anti-Poem in the following triad was conceived many moons apart [dates provided] from the others in its lineage. And yet you might notice that they share some common family traits. The simplest example of this is their matching names. They are given here in proper chronological order:
1/3: Rhizomatous
The Eternal Moment is back!
New and improved as ever before
Relucent splendor blinds third eye
Dreams and daylight interchangeable
Parallel existence multiplies all around us
But only the most perceptive can see it
Undivided among merely apparent multiplicity
Magnificent Monad splintered in fractal infinity
Universal memory stretched beyond spacetime
Everything is obvious to those lit from within
Irrational only for uncouth cretins acting civil
Such minds are secondary to silent Will at work
Any mystic sage or skilled sophist knows
That rarefied Truth puts an onus on us observers
We are the coauthors of our assumed Reality
Heroes, rascals and zeroes: typecast actors
Arbitrary labels define how society evolves
Don’t fall for shadows playing on cave wall
Even believing your own story is suspect
Doubt logical assertions as illogical ones
Flip switches, push buttons, recalculate
Having plotted a course — cast off now
Drifting past present and future until
Reaching an ageless continent
Always living; constant instant!
2/3: Asomatous
~ Operand at the periphery ~
Like Don Giovanni’s opera
It gives rise to an epiphany:
Bridging wide gaps within
A rich binaural symphony.
So let the players sing and
Take you by both tympani.
Such scores are highly rated
Among the annals of infamy.
Donna Elvira love him not —
For he goes beyond polygamy:
Over two-thousand bodices
Removed in crass indecency!
Even statues spring to life
Moved through sheer indignity.
Audiences are often duped
By the libretto’s filigree;
Thinking it has something to do
With inborn nobility or pedigree.
The evanescent is nascent mid torment…
3/3: Anomalous
No nation can claim the Self-named
For none have proven worthy
Of the glory that they
Profess to possess.
Always been ahead of the pack
But nobody notices anymore
Because we aren’t in
A classical setting.
This conduit has been cleared
Though its purpose mightn’t
Be fulfilled in one lifetime;
Age of ignoramus runs fright’d.
Abominable Great Northern Yeti
Ought to recognize when his
Backyard thaws to become
Not unlike the Serengeti.
Three underscores trace progress:
- Atavists struggling to uphold.
- Iconoclasts tear down ye old.
- Hybrid strain of Power untold…
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