Posts Tagged ‘John Milton’

Drowning in resentment on an endless doom scroll

March 17, 2025

Milton was right 
We make our own hell
You won't find salvation
In a wishing well

Drowning in resentment on an endless doom scroll
Thinking a mirage was gonna make your life whole


You weren't living a life
You were playing a role
Searching your feed
For a new heart and soul

Drowning in resentment on an endless doom scroll
Thinking a mirage was gonna make your life whole

Leaching off the shadow
Of a fancy façade
Staring into the void
And mistaking it for God

Drowning in resentment on an endless doom scroll
Thinking a mirage was gonna make your life whole


by Richard W. Bray

Dance, Dance, Dance

November 11, 2023




Dance, dance, for the figure is easy,
   The tune is catching and will not stop;
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters;
   Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
W. H. Auden, Death’s Echo

Laughing in the face of evil
What else can you do? 
Hold on real tight 
To what’s good and close and true

You can only forgive
What was done to you
Everything else
Is left to You Know Who

The mind makes hell from heaven
It makes heaven out of hell
Own the space inside your head
And keep yourself well

A lot of things will happen
You don't always have to tell
Live your own story
It's not a thing to sell

Wish everyone the best
Play your own part
And dance every moment
To the song in your heart

by Richard W. Bray

a trillion times more

August 19, 2019

O fairest of all creation, last and best
Of all God’s works, creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed

John Milton, Paradise Lost

the sunshine in your laughter
the poetry in your style
the wiggle in your swagger
the music in your smile

your wicked sense of humor
your feet, your face, your hair
the fire in your anger
the fancy in your flare

the tender in your strength
the lovely in your heart
you’re a trillion times more
than the sum of your parts

every thing about you
every little part
knocks me on my bootie
you’re my favorite work of art

by Richard W. Bray

O fairest of Creation

February 21, 2016

wwwwwwweve

A universe of traits
Lively and sedate
Butch and straight

Matron and girly
Smooth and curvy
Delicate and nervy

Nimble and bold
Young and old
Precious like gold

Fun and feral and silly and wise
In every shape and shade and size
You make the world a lovely place
In three point seven billion ways

by Richard W. Bray