PILGRIMAGES

 

Such a strange custom traipsing

Through houses of dead personages

Guided tours for whatever reason

Nobody can ever be sure

 

Anne Frank’s Dutch attic hideaway

Life affirming idealist pure heart

Downcast but never in despair

Diary inscribing nature brings solace

 

Chairman Mao’s mausoleum jarring cremains

Dynastic porcelain urn timeworn cracks

Tyrannical despot whose gangster thugs

Challenged fine art comely beauty

 

Bavaria’s “mad” Prince Ludwig fragile

Ego extravagant jigsaw puzzle decadence

Flamboyant candlelit ballroom waltzing reflections

Orchestrated Wagnerian Sturm und Drang

 

Vegetarian concerned humanitarian Bob Marley

Cultivated sea breezes puffing ganja

Indigenous reggae Jamaican Rasta rhythms

Black ironwood adrift doesn’t float

 

Shakespeare’s humble cottage upon Avon

Cobbled leather shoes metal soles

Never distinguishing left from right

Immortal bard lording over tomfoolery

 

Rancorous crowds flock to pay

Tribute museums dedicated to retrospectives

Embellished memories resurrecting reputed infamy

Homage to Elvis Liberace Capone

 

PoeArtry by: Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote

Co-editors of quarterly cosmozine AVANTGARDETIMES.com