Poetry of Issue #6                        Page 30
Previous Next Table of Contents	Torre In a land of flattened fields and broad branched trees Towers are landmarks made by men Magical, martial, walled and moated The clocktower anchors the town piazza, though the time is always off Castle tower once pierced by arrows, as sentries scanned for invading foes Church towers Campenella rose to heavenly heights, bells bisecting dawn and dusk And the lovely conceit of an empty stuccoed tower that overlooks manicured garden Now home to sleeping bats and dried droppings of doves   Ilka Scobie __	From the Portuguese for RR One million cigarettes does not create a cumulus cloud Sometimes a scrawl is merely that, Careless markings flowing freely Your taut fragility masks a master’s survival skills Everyone awaits your arrival The world was discovered by mistake But it was no accident   Ilka Scobie__ ©Bob Heman: The Arrival (VII) - August 15, 2018	The Dawn of Darkness On Dec. 15, Trump’s White House has banned seven words from future CDC documents When words are banned A fetus sheds amniotici tears. diversity, all embracing is Essential to life. restrictions are ignorance’s entitlement. Evidence-based reality Heralds science based facts. The transgendered will not be erased. These words now shatter vulnerability. Willful words that must be spoken.   Ilka Scobie__ _______________________ WE WERE STARDUST Broken promises are coming home to roost, bad thoughts are getting mixed up with the good ones, the world is growing increasingly crazy – a hurtling, careening, corner squealing commentary on the cosmos… Is this the work of the god of a paradise where anything goes? Leaving a message in his wake that nothing is real, life is a trip and earthy scents’ of “Strawberry Fields Forever” … If you've been imitating the seeming cool, the detachment, and the languor, your genuineness with arms akimbo won't be noticed until you tire of your pose in Ray-Bans when indoors. I do remember some funny looks when playfully wearing them on center stage of hope and ability ... (A long time ago) However, you can’t go back; even Mt. Everest is a little shorter than it was.   ooznozz__