Log Blog Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Sodden logs round blazing fire
soldier stiff await flame fate,
ramrod ready, hourly drier,
fiery end anticipate.  
Trees which bore for man’s desire
timely fruit of goodly weight,
sawn, stick around for suttee pyre.
Stacked staves time's leaves eliminate,
condemned to ashes in grey grate,
crackling together as a choir.

What once might yearly celebrate
bright blossom born in green attire
in forest, wood, by hedgerow gate
uprooted are, no more require
dew, water table.  Speculate
upon man’s vanity, the sire
of most misfortune early, late.

Dust to dust both lust, desire,
first gust then rust, must relegate
pride ride as time's tide turns, as tire
generations that disintegrate.
Boom bows to bust, cowed, no high flyer
resists flow's undertow, time's weight.
Soon's sated, stars, eclipsed, retire.
Men burn, too seldom calculate
cost of light lost despite fight dire.
Pulse iced, zeitgeist's dream themes trace trait
in tomb's gloom doomed, urn earned expire  

Wealth wily heirs will dissipate
where envy, angst, unkind blind ire
soon self-consume.  Nor man nor mate
earn lasting praise, merge into mire,
Concentric circles congregate,
sapped strength sweats out its ultimate
essence as moisture, sap transpire
with hiss few miss, with whistles higher.
Wood logs bide time round blazing fire.

Seasons hot and cold conspire
together to perpetuate
swift fire ice cycle.  Scoundrel, Prior,
in trice turn age page, hark dark fait
accompli as Dame Nature's lyre
bark turns stark both for profligate
and celibate atop high spire,
tunes runes, life's strife, strange change dictate.

No paradox. In town and shire
from solid into quantum state
all stays the same, though minds require
the wherewithal to integrate
four elements linked by fey wire.
whose contradictions aggregate
life's fractal fantasy entire.

Who seeks for answers must inquire
within, take time to contemplate
conundrum woven, truth and liar,
hot cold, earth air, fire ice restate
real dream reel, skip trip.  Seller, buyer
are twins identical whose weight
depends on introspective gyre
like tree bark witness of Time's wait
on Time to circumnavigate
the contradictory crossfire
of surface assumptions which create
their own momentum, karmic tyre
around impressions which abate
as atoms realign.  Ice, fire,
mirage extremes incorporate.

Reality and dreams combine, their quest -
through Time condensing from initial jest -
banishes fire ice contradictions' span,
creation vast, past, present, big bang's van
till request and inquest converge in gest:
None can contest log blog's logged blazing über plan.

From mess congestive to suggestive test
of chaos, universal fractal fest
patterns pitter-patter, matter must
invent itself from, to, through, into dust.
Elemental FIRE EARTH's treasure chest
prepares, add WATER, AIR, all's for the best,
as incandescence to terrestrial crust
below recycles as above discussed.

Logs
Sodden logs around the fire
soldier like await their fate,
ramrod stiff and hourly drier,
fiery end anticipate.

Trees which bore for man's desire
timely fruit of goodly weight
are now sawn logs upon the pyre
condemned to ashes in the grate,
crackle together as a choir.

Where once they blossomed, now a gate
and hedgerow trim tending require, -
incessant training, - speculate
on human vanity, the sire
of most misfortune, soon or late.

Dust to dust both lust, desire,
must gust to dust, disintegrate.
Men burn, but seldom calculate
their time soon fated to expire,
their wealth they tend to dissipate,
their envy, anxiousness, and ire
all self consuming! Man and mate
earn little praise, soon merge with mire,
while in a circle congregate
wood logs around a winter fire.