DON BEUKES

DON BEUKES

AMOUR ÉTERNEL * LOVE ETERNAL

Fate has aligned the stars

to shine eternally on our

unknown foretold love like

a white dove floating down

from heavenly bodies above –

Wrapping its soft wings around our

introductory halo as I turned around

at the arrivals information desk with a

hesitant ‘hello' silently thanking the stars

for this welcome emotional flow of

Cupid’s intoxicating piercing arrow

securing my unknown new tomorrow.

A meeting of two souls recognizing

familiar shared goals only revealed

in distant fragmented symbolic dreams – A

bond strengthened by a shared moral compass

guiding us both out from our emotional social

abyss – Never questioning or doubting this

fighting this diminishing this – For this is

certain, open the everlasting curtain – To

a pulsating encompassing love eternal…

© Don Beukes

MEET ME IN THE LIGHT

I can hear you near me, here but your velvet touch

is nowhere near to comfort me, to steer me, to anchor

me or fulfill me – Are you here with me, now?

I can smell your cinnamon infused fingertips like

you used to surprise me with a sweet teatime delicacy –

Oh how I miss your sense of adventure leaping off a

waterfall cliff to join me in that melting azure mountain

pool below, delivering a splendid unforgettable aquatic show.

I reach out to you but I cannot feel you or hear you – Your

sweet whispers fading they become echoes of your affirmative

affections – Only your lingering aura guides me to where you

should be yet I am unable to move as I find myself floating on

our love.

It's brighter now since this unknown haze of emotions has

captured my obvious intentions to embrace you, sway with you

leap with you, rediscover you.

I can hear the rush of mountain air the melody of you so sweet

here – They are here my love, reaching out to me I am too weak

to fight it, so please hurry and meet me in the light…

© Don Beukes

THE JOB OF LIVING

Social contract choices muted

in this job of living –Suffering

each demon alley night soaked

in sweet sweat from ridiculous

senseless targets stress achievements

not met – Enter the employment

earthly masters' chosen guillotine

I fear the reactions from various

hardcore factions happy in the

matrix of living –

Each day religiously playing

their scripted parts but I am sorry

I need to bow out and turn my

back on the baying crowd –

Discard this daily decaying shroud

and finally heal my daily suffering

in this job of living…

©

DON BEUKES

DON BEUKES is the author of ‘The Salamander Chronicles’ and ‘Icarus Rising – Volume 1’, who only started to have his poetry published since August 2015 in various international literary magazines and journals, after writing poetry part-time over ten years whilst working as a Teacher of English and Geography in both South Africa and the United Kingdom. He also appears in various Anthologies by Creative Talents Unleashed and also featured in ‘In So Many Words : A Collection of Interviews and Poetry from today’s Poets’ by Adam Levon Brown of Madness Muse Press, ‘Selfhood’ by Transcendent Zero Press edited by Dustin Pickering and ‘Apple Fruits of an Old Oak : A Collection of Contemporary Short poems, Micro Poetry, Haiku & Photography’ and ‘Where are you from’ edited by Soodabeh Saeidnia, as well as ‘Headlines and Tragedies' edited by Shannon Lynette of Lady Chaos Press. His poems have been translated into Afrikaans, Farsi and Albanian and he has received a ‘Best of the Net 2017’ nomination for his trilogy ‘Esorfo Ygolirt/Triloigy of Rose' in Scarlet Leaf Review. He also writes short fiction.