The Progress of Rhyme and Reason

By M.J. Charlton

A collection of 42 poems, divided into two complementary halves and interspersed with cryptic illustrations that hint at a larger narrative running throughout.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483567594

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RHYME

I.

The beginning is the maze of myth

and the end as well,

take the demagogue of dialogue

and all the cognition from recognition,

and they still don’t reward

suicide here.

A man of absolutes

deserves no absolution,

destitute and resolute

that there can be no

solution.

The only girl

to consider the mountain top

and the crossroads to be

one and the same,

if money is time unseen then

she is the shadow of the pressed rose.

You see yourself and others

in the pages of this book,

but in truth there is no

work of art

or form of nature

in which you are not.

II.

The scripture is not a sculpture,

written on translated tides

pulsing with the centuries sights

as silence glows and grows

showing more than the stonewall knows.

Resonating without righteousness

flowing with the river so as

not to stagnate in a well,

the godly man has no need

for the church bell.

The portrait of a figure in repose

asked if we would kill him

if we met him on the road,

pushing for a sincere response,

through the cloud of the fictions

we contrived

all we could say is that we would

let him know if we survived.

III.

What the story shows

is not the beginning or the end

the

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[Amaia Gómez Casquero · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Unique, frank and vibrant poems. Waiting for the printed version