To The Uninvited Fay (Or, Passably Perspicacious Person Presents Pretty Playful Pleasing Perhaps Persuasive Poem)

 

To: The Happy Sighting Of The Uninvited Fay

(Passably Perspicacioius Person Presents Pretty Playful Pleasing Perhaps Persuasive Poem)

From: a female Faust

Like an unexpected visitation from the Graceful Little Folk

Itself alike to tripping running into Loki at a rave

However dark your dreaming was, it now wants longer till awoke

Things lately sad, well turning to be come of a sudden happy have

Like some Færie playing Occam who makes moot my knotty bow

Or fay roleplaying Zorro, after vorpal snicker snack,

That left Evil yet believing for a moment to've escaped the blade somehow

Only to watch their front fall like dead bloody meat from off their back                                                                                            

Spitefulness & envy, willfull sloth, vanity & jealousy & greed

A prideful unacceptance so to observation disinclined as amounting to denial

If you see something but are too eager for the saying the færy folk know what you need

Sit down be quiet look & listen — to understand — your self — after a while

Everywhere the Spirit ventures likely Færies dance half hidden in plain sight

They put on such Glamour not for themselves as much so as perchance to put things Right.

Update (a poem for a friend)

Update

Or, The This That Is Just In, Should That That Be Nearly Out

My friend for so long, this is me here, to you

This isn’t meant to be heard in another’s voice

This here and now is between just us two:

Our only always way too short of a time

In not mere product of chance event so much

As it is of our conscious choice ——

History does not repeat so much

But events most certainly rhyme

& if things get insane, disjoint, out of touch

(If nothing else I hope this gets through)

Rememer that you, you, here & now, are enough,

Enough over which to rejoice ——

Every time I remember I rejoice anew.

a poem by a Faust to a friend, January 19th, 2022