Chaos writes with windy pen
on dunes of sand and frothy sea,
cirrus clouds aloft, and then
Erases all before we see
the transient text that's hid therein.
She makes a breeze beneath our door
and tricks us with her icy chill,
freezing feet both rich and poor,
Whispers with a voice quite still,
while scuttering frost along the floor.
Carefully mounded garden leaves
spout up in twisting jets of air;
she throws them up into the eves
And casts them down upon our hair;
confusion reigns while she deceives.
She moves the air in many ways,
a gentle touch, a typhoon's blast
slanting rains from storms just past;
She whimpers, rages, laughs for days,
the words she babbles forth don't last.
So, though the message can't be read,
still, it's plainly understood,
that Chaos birthed our world and said,
"My work is neither bad nor good,
in fog you stumble, then you're dead."
The Orchards is a good journal that likes formal, rhymed poetry a lot. They take free verse, too, but they would enjoy this one a lot. And there are other journals that prefer formal poetry. Just google and you’ll see! I love this poem.
I like it.
The Orchards is a good journal that likes formal, rhymed poetry a lot. They take free verse, too, but they would enjoy this one a lot. And there are other journals that prefer formal poetry. Just google and you’ll see! I love this poem.