Jonathan ROBIN Poems

TRACING POET'S TRACINGS

Creative talents need not presuppose
life's web is spun within dim hermit's cell.
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PAIR_CON_FECTION
His love paired shared perfection
with which no dreams compare,
so seemed, upon reflection,
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DREAMWORKS
Eyes saw reflection Monday, when World War II was won,
emerging, letters learning, to betters bowed, begun
a journey spread like butter upon life’s bread, which seems
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Coupé Coût Paie

Entre l'hi[v]er qui a déçu,
et le printemps qu'on n’va pas voir,
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CONUNDRUM

Summer to some seems Winter's sum,
time spent repent, ~ what went before
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Daily drain, pain, regular rite,
bus, taxi, train, commuter’s delight
This is our bane, societal blight.
Come shine or rain, at dawn’s first light
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US AND THEM AS USUAL


Universal truth spins like a top
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NOTES BEFORE READING


The palimpsest is not easily legible. Punctuation, spacing,
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If you can fight Monsanto’s sterile sowing,
deny blight warnings, nor fear climate change,
if cash in hand exceeds debts most's greed's owing,
if you’re the early bird with worms in range.
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RHYME RANT ON PROSE RANTS
Prose which with capitals would rant
against pet hate, for favoured cause
is often filled with fatal flaws,
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