Flying Buttress

A Poem by Pete

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never. - Immanuel Kant

York Minster flying buttresses | Romanesque architecture, Flying buttress, Gothic architecture

stuck in the callous cleavage of denial

heaving, bilingual bosoms of refusal

jaundiced jugs

cowardly couplings

menacing mamillae

encircling areolas of arrogance

you fastened a barbed brassiere of stubbornness

protuberances walking the plank

throwing us under the bus

imprisoning us

beneath an unparalleled

flying buttress

© 2023 Pete

Author's Note

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Thoreau

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Added on January 3, 2023
Last Updated on January 3, 2023

Author

Pete

Boston, MA

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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..