Lit eZine Vol 3 | p-8 | POETRY | From the Depths of My Thoughts – Manic Sylph Writes… Poetry & Thoughts by Mona Soorma

SHORT POEMS

FROM THE DEPTHS OF MY THOUGHTS
by Victor Kennedy

A man with a charming smile against the planets... a god figure — *Image by* *Angela_Yuriko_Smith*

The Morning Star

The man with glowing eyes and a charming grin asks 
What is your deepest desire? 

I don’t know
I have so many desires
and I don’t know which is the deepest 

Well, he says
Just pick one. I haven’t got all day 

I think a moment
I can’t, I say
I keep changing my mind 

I’d like to be young again
but I’d just make the same mistakes 
differently 

I’d like to turn back time
but I’d have no more control over it 
than I did the first time 

Everything I think I desire 
when I really think about it
I realize I don’t want it after all 

Now I see
why he asks the question 
and I’m glad I can’t answer it 

You only want
what you can’t have, he says, smiling 

That’s why you invent supernatural beings
he says, as he fades away

the expanding universe

you were all the world to me
but on this voyage
through time and space 
climates change
suns cool
or explode
and worlds collide
or wander into the grip of a dark star 
 
our paths cross different orbits 
and as we recede ever faster
into the void
the light fades
and an instant 
becomes all eternity

THE MOSQUITO

On a cool June evening
I’m lying in bed
and instinctively go to swat 
a mosquito
buzzing around my head

but I stop
when I realize 
I’m grateful
that somebody
still finds me attractive

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Victor Kennedy studied guitar at Berklee School of Music, Boston; Astronomy at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; law at York University, Toronto; and English at the University of Toronto. At various times he has eked out a living as a truck driver, lawyer, musician, scuba diving instructor, lexicographer, and English professor. He taught at the University of Maribor from 1996 until retiring in 2022. He is the author of Strange Brew: Metaphors of Magic and Science in Rock Music (2013) and co-editor of Words and Music (2013), Symphony and Song (2016), and several other books about words and music.