Of Eternal Joy

for Franziska

At the apex of all madness
Star atop the Christmas tree
Sparkles that sweet shining gladness
Of the light you share with me

In the joy of the eternal
Past the mad beyond the sane
The celestial and infernal
Burden blessing boon and bane

Friskaziska Franziskana
How I love your German name
Here post-Pax Americana
We are peaceful just the same

In the midst of sin and sadness
Burns a higher nobler flame
In its everlasting beauty
I find all I need of fame

In our existential duty
To transcend the shit and shame
Of a brutal and barbaric age
With Franziska on a pilgrimage

Of eternal joy though sanity cease
One girl one boy: practitioners of peace

+Steven Curtis Lance



Copyright MMVI

g`day cousin, beautiful! keep well and take care, greg

Thank you, Cousin; I just came back and rewote the ending, actually... I believe it to be better and stronger now. I thought about it all day, and decided it had to be done. Now I think my poem is the best it can be, and I am satisfied that it is whole and complete. I hope our dedicatee likes it!

Thanks and love,

+Stevie

She will, she will !!!

Indeed she will Hey Hey, wonderfuly writen Steve as always.
misty

Thank you, my friends! I haven't heard anything from her yet, but I still hope to, someday.

Respect and solidarity,

+Stevie

I love it.


a fire opening our eyes
a flame burning noble
nullifying all of fear, all of shame
intense existence, the meaning of all
surging minds, breathing heart and soul
we live fulfilled aspiring to go for all

Life is beautiful when souls touch!

Friskaziska Franziskana, I thank you with all my heart. There is a safe and quiet place, a sanctuary in my heart and in my home for you forever.

Respect and solidarity, thanks and love,

+Stevie