Clayton Medeiros's Shared Poems

Is anything ever over
Does memory ever quit
Its duty to all things past
Hurtful and helpful
Relevant and useless
Expectations met
Failed intentions
Tales of resiliency
Perhaps in heroic couplets
But lacking Pope’s wit
Personal tragedies
In iambic pentameter
With no soaring lyrics
From Shakespeare

What will make love stay
He said in a book
The question unfulfilled
In the last chapter
Leaving it for the reader
To consummate an answer
As if Eros might bless us
With unique knowledge
An answer to love’s lure
From Shakespeare’s dark lady
To cowgirls with the blues

Misted headlands sit
Waiting for sunset darkness
Pelicans home bound

Many sins hide behind science
Omissions commissions heresies
Among the deductive conclusions
Captured in the catechism
That truth is always measurable
But life is not so simple
With endless cracks and quivers
In measurement’s foundations
Cosmological inquiries do not support
Deductive experiments and repetition
What a dull world it would be
Without romance or speculation

Clatter of voices
Clink and clank of silver ware
Satiety awaits