blame game

i am inclined to blame another

for my lack of skill and resolve

to complete the task entrusted

or undertaking i volunteered

even in my blame i am prone

to pass that buck to Adam

and his spouse, or that gene

i inadvertently inherited

instead of abandoning the blame

game i continue my play

that relay race i chose to name

as human nature frail and faulty

© henry victor               04.12.2011

a profitable pot

my father was not the potter who shaped

my stature though he may have cut the sod

the first dry dirt, while just enough water

was splashed carefully by my mother

then, one and many hands moulded

the wet mud, me lending both my rights

and resistance, an ambiguous assistance

until in me a market detected a profitable pot, a poet

© henry victor     03.11.2003

yet to evolve!

my brother, older, and i
like the silent sea turtle
and that noisy prairie hen
act out our evolutions differently

his achievements in thousands
that no one knows
except in those thousands that return
to the sea to remain hidden

mine, emerging from ego
bloated to the capacity of bursting
is that one, the single egg
i announce close to thousand times