The coast of never

Here’s a little quatrain for your Monday amusement:

On the coast of never
What sailing there will be
Our sacred bonds we’ll sever
And cast ourselves upon the sea

Damascus

Red sky over Homs
A faint riffle, a stirring
Of late summer breeze
Among the searing flesh
And the fly benighted airs
A brief hope of relief
From the deadly heat.

Meanwhile, over Damascus
The whiff of colonial pasts

Carpe diem

In response to Carpe Diem prompt, Special#54.

Eat your fill, my friend
When life departs your body
It is the worm’s turn

God’s fate

God was in one of his moods
Lightning seared the mountaintops
Bilious gases erupted in the seas
The earth opened and swallowed cities
Whole

Sacrifice a son? For what?
For that pathetic string of snot
Befouling my blue pearl?

Fate, serene, unmoved
Merely kept her gaze
Focused on the navel
Of heaven and earth

You banished them from their birthright
Sent them tumbling, willy-nilly
into the blackness
Of their own hearts
Into deathless ruination
Now some part of your immortal spark
must suffer anguish and die

Alright, alright!
But I’ll make the bastards pay!

Monday poetry prompt #17

A good one from We Drink because We’re Poets. Here’s my take:

Blustering grey clouds
No cover for the weary
Winter eyes shiver