Flashbacks From a Roller Coaster Ride. Austen Barnes

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      the triumph of

      the right to guess

      the flashes of the future

      for their burst of time

      Their minds were set;

      the facts and form were given;

      degrees begot and they were let

      unleashed with power

      to spare, and flew,

      for we were there

      Your love was deep

      for all our keep

      and when you left, we wept-

      your death killed each

      of us in part-

      our part of you

      And now, in retrospect

      your love profound, pragmatic

      was loyal, sound, and true-

      you pulled us through-

      but love was always there for you

      in deepest passion

       ICE MAIDEN

      Ice,-

      tough,

      hard,

      cold.

      The shrouded shell

      of atrophied personality;

      the grim facade

      of sometime riches fallen in a well.

      Ice,-

      pure,

      crystal,

      compacted.

      Frozen tears

      of disappointments' bout

      transparent yet obdurate;

      immune to pick and probe

      of sharpened wit or warmth without.

      Ice,-

      beware,

      bewildering

      barrier

      of spirits flight;

      filterer of thought

      and dampener of psyche,

      your blanket dims

      the brightest light.

      Ice,-

      tasteless,

      blue,

      bleak.

      Pour weak from warmth within;

      turn fast to water

      ere the dance be done,

      before the heart cools

      and the pulse is thin.

      Accursed ice,-

      bedamned,

      bedevilled,

      begone!

      Your time is come

      for still the world is young

      and nature's kind

      for springs' begun.

       DONUTS

      Gleaming, glazed, precise,

      the immaculate rows of cultured donuts

      reflect the crystal glow

      of polished glass and lustrous stainless steel -

      the perfected prism; the proven franchise magic mix -

      converging all to inevitable success.

      The formula defines all aspects

      of the structured layers of support -

      to move the short lived product

      from mix to oven to shelf to tray, and hand to mouth

      for those who choose to pause and think, drink,

      and be merry for a brief instant, with a donut -

      in hurried breaks from fast lanes of our time.

      Almond eyed, sometimes the dragon-cat; the mini hostess,

      brusque and bold, and cold, snatches money from the proffered hand

      as quick as claw, the pretty gaze ablaze

      in discontent as sterile as the the stainless,

      and foreign to the color tones of warmth;

      contrasting nurtured smell of welcome coffee;

      a slipping cleft of hidden lifequake yet to come.

      By the window sit the couple; elderly worn,

      gazing wistfully at the bustling street,

      sipping on their memories of slower times

      and elegance of manners past;

      numbed still from jobless misery, war, and peace precarious -

      yet grateful of the giant leap of time

      that war itself is near passe; as obsolete as chivalry.

      How little worry now, they thought;

      if only we can handle waste and wanton hate;

      and not get sick with ails, but even those dissolve

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