Bee Lines Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Past and Present’s argument:
busy bee belligerent
pollen gummy complement
bagged we present, buzzing by.

Season spent, none can prevent
destiny’s predicament
when hive honey government
planned obsolescent workers die.

Sediment by sediment,
shows history self-evident,
defines Time’s judgement, no postponement,
no atonement, ‘vein’ appeals deny.

Inconsequent experiment,
memory once fulgurant,
lacking, runny, insouciant
semi-senescent, streams awry.

I came, I went, to what intent?
R.I.P. advertisement?
Time’s jokes, sad-funny, represent
transient moment’s magician fly.

Permanent no monument.
'Ici gît' lost figurant,
sad or sunny temperament,
No recommencement, Death draws nigh.

Heaven sent or Hell’s descent?
Seeking key see reverent
Christian, Sunni for portent
all-omniscient search the sky.

Sojourn tent is non-event.
Time flies by, moon gib, crescent.
Fame’s gin, rummy, trump-trap vent
turns acescent, none know why.

Sentiment harsh, well-meant,
share same sigh, acquiescent,
proud or puny, soon repent,
share same statement, shroud cowed lie.

Cold, confident, or bland, ament,
trembling shy, bold, insolent,
see aims crumbly fade, fragment,
hopes delitescent ossify.

Circumvent predicament?
Though all try, fool and pedant,
jester dummy document,
share passing cry.

Life is lent, fleet fleece rent:
mortality deliquescent,
laughs at money supplement,
soon putrescent, low and high.

So, no comment. Evanescent
humanity effervescent,
you, I, insectae represent
torment lament: born to die.

(11 October 2006)