Ontological Masque of Scales - Nature's Thespian Ruse

Oviparous victuals, the serpent's cibarious quest,
An edacious charade where fangs bear no heft,
Venom cedes to guile's stratagem deft.
Colubridal contortions, a choreographed ruse,
Hissing scales enact a terpsichorean muse.
Feigning ire, it strikes a farcical pose,
This saxicolous sport, where truth' visor's rose-
Hued tint conceals life's obstinate preys,
From opsonic glares, a thespian's disobeys.  

Dasypeltis, the eggish beguiler's name,
Nomenclature belying its stratagem's aim.
Evoking Lethean streams, soporific guise,
Elicits in ursine watchers mere aguise.
Somnolent mien masking peckish zeal,       
Semblance wreathed in verisimilitude's teal.
Each gulp razed of testudinous cates,
Rites Hellenic augurs with Sybilline pates.
Involuting viscera reshape, hypertense,
Quashed nidamental shells in gists guttitense.

Scales' stridulous threnody, hiss-woven lay,         
Bared iambs of persuasion mime feral brae.
Dissembling's thespian guise, fanfares of fear,
Mask truth's naked cast, curtained from viewing ere.
This protean masque rendering seeming discord,  
Cacophonous cadence in nature's fair hoard.
Dire menace's mime devolves into jest,
As jaws unhinged envelop fragile nest.
Apotheosis'd hunger in cloaks fey and sage,
Rapacious, yet rendered by sophists' lyric'd rage.

Unmawed by calumnious praise or satire's jape,
This reptile's theatrics transcend their trope's scope.   
Defying visceral trolls with drollish riposte,
Its stratagem unwinds in Time's endless horologe.
Gnomic jests weaving life's comedic tarock,
Anarthrous gambits snaring fancy's derrick.
Spectacles profane yet sacred to lore's grail,
Each tilt enacts nature's own Passion's veil.
Panpsychist pageants, ontological ruse,
Rehearsed in amphitheaters, lush verdant stews.

With antic fer'or the trickster's script unreels,
Its aposiopesis frayed guise repeels,
Rendering mockery of Truth in this stage:
A quip at mortality's world-garden'd cage.
Hermetic motleys this feigned war essays,
Viewing aught but escape as phantasm's malaise.
Pelting falsehoods to shroud reality's blow,
Its charade affords perspective's status quo.
Yet its ruses eluct nature's remorseless rhyme,
Reflecting conscious life's phantasmic paradigm.


















   The poem is  part of a full version found in the book “Homo Sapiens” Part Part I - XXIX, written by Mawphniang Napoleon. This book is part of the popular “Homo Sapiens” book series, which can be purchased online at various online bookstores, such as Amazon. The book is available for purchase for those who are interested in reading the complete version of the poem. Remember to get all the books from the “Homo Sapiens” series, as well as other books by the same author.   So, don’t hesitate and get a copy today from one of the many online bookstores.  



  - Khublei Shihajar Nguh,
  - (Dhanewad  )
  - (Thank you )