Progressions

???PROGRESSIONS?[Early Period]
Poetry by: Walter D. Petrovic
(c) 1974 - 1984 - 1999 - 2004
Walter D. Petrovic?513 - 25 Country Hills Dr.?Kitchener, Onatrio, Canada?N2E 3L1?(519)-570-4774
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"VISAGE"
In a fortnight a shadow seeds?The multitudes in unhalted flight?A vision, awed in arrival, is seen?And nowhere can they hide.
They raise their hands in homage,?Afraid to live, as mortals should,?They kneel with heads bowed low,?And seek that, which was promised,?To live as one with God.
The Son's return to rule us,?As envisioned by the men;?Chanting: "The thousand years are ours,
To live the spirit life with him."
"MAN IN HELL"
Can only man?With his mortal shell,?Withstand, in spirit,?The atrocities of his Hell??Held here on Earth, Our Cage,?The once Eden, lost on demerit??Killing and cussing all?Living-in and lusting rage?Till as before, will be?The cleansing of the world;?In flood, in fire, in mercy.?And farewell to second paradise.?Good-bye to money and its all,?The buying of brethren and loves?Till no more: farewell,?To the final Sodom and Gomorrah.
"CARRY"
Carry along my mystery,?My love of eternity.?Carry along my mind,?And love me wholly.?Carry along my child,?And we shall be one.
"RESTLESS"
I shall not rest?Till I have attained?My place as honoured guest.?I shall not withhold?Till I retrieve my gain.?I shall not sleep?Until time be mine to reign.?I shall not rest?Till I see the others weep?In my stead.
"THE EDGE"
Go - stand at the edge,?The abyss, endless below.?You see no way of crossing it?But you reach the other sideAlthough,?just a dream.
"A MONKEY"
A monkey sat, inside his cage,?And watched the people watch?And he felt himself so lucky?That he had a hairy crotch.
"IN RESPONSE"
How can any one react to such phases?That most people cannot understand??The Universal Syndrome survives now?In every man and woman's soul.?Yet, still, no more friendship or honor is known,?For the men, who with sabers cut?The hearts out of the people's beings?Who thought that they were the friends of right.
"A ROBIN"
There was a robin, in our yard.?It eyed a worm,?Picked it up,?And flew away.
"HOMAGE"
In a fortnight's pleasance,?To a year or reflectance,?We plead to hear a giggle?And yearn to see a smile.?In morning's welcomed twinkle,?And this country's gentle mile,?The Homage we will give thee?And remain in thoughtful presence.
"AT A LOSS"
A City,?Of hollowed mountains stand.?A relic,?To the once strong, beloved land.?A City,?Waiting for life to start anew.?A story,?Forgotten to all but few.?To know,?Of empty visions crossed,?To end,?In waves of future, at a loss.
"FALLEN FOWL"
The birds howled murder, in the night?As red drops fell them, while in flight,?Where vagabond vultures wait in heat,?For some morsels left for them, to eat.?And thinking, in some hopeless way?Of holding all their keep and preyThey?fight and scream as if in pain?Till no more, on the bones remain.
"AND ONCE AGAIN"
Seasons pass without due thought?Reasons are there, but who cares??All the days are long and dreary?Calling to the masses, that are home,
-And once again.
May I say of thought, that is clean?Pray to know, what is, and has been,?See the clouds bunch into one?Free are the people, bright as the sun?
-And once again.
We all know that dreams are false,?Decree sent out, our lives it halts?Till one alone will stand to fight?Will, of a man, that knows what's right.
? And nothing more.
"MY SOUL"
My soul as hollow as lifeless dust?Wandering, searching, for what is mine
Carried by the winds for eternity?Never to rest but always to seek?The point of breezeless sanctuary?Where my dust thus stops forever.
"ATTRACTIVE"
Come fourth, give yourself?A chance for change, arranged?For betterment, in prospectus.?Found in cavities, of merciless minds?Of many unquestioned answers.?To feel a sense of dismay?To know, two plus two is five?And the world is square.?Water is blood and urine-wine?Contradicts those who are aware.?Look and see golden reflections,?And wonder if you're not just one, too.
"KEEPS"
Hold my mellowed affections?Close to your heart.?Let's know one another's dreams?And to love one another, totally.?Keep the memory of my likeness?In your mind, forever.?In future's desperate encounters?It may serve as a door.?The door to which you hold the key,?The key that you hold, for keeps.
"IN CONSCIOUS CONSCIENCE"
Enter the thoughts, in the minds of man,?The only animal on this earth, who canFind?excuses to cheat for wealth?For he usually does not compete for health,?For love, for money and things to wear?He'll kill and plunder, while others despair.
All of those who fought and lost?Will have to pay the supreme cost.?All who stand and turn their cheek?Since, "The earth, inherits the meek."?Will pray, will wish and hope?But never will be able to cope.
The time has passed, the world has crumbled?And all the dead shout, their voices mumbled.?Let not the people, see the worldly send,?Death and destruction, to the very end.?All children cry and grown-ups, too?Till no more can cry, there are too few.
"IN SHORT"
Over, in wonder, and in morning's greeted wake,?With the sun that shines and shimmers?Off the water and through my window,?I dream of dreams, about dreams,?That I will wake and witness all?When the days are short in winter.
"SEEING BLINDNESS"
In a matter of years?It will come about?Overcoming your worries, and fears;
You'll lift up