Friday, April 20, 2012

An Absentee Father of Impetus


Beyond the pangs of province
arrives a thrall of misanthropy

Existing microscopic effigies—
built in shade and made of quartz—
breaking free of an entombed and cryptic core

A ravenous incongruity,
interminable and willfully wrought
deliver anathemas of a kindred crux

Amongst the valleys trampled toward
fragments of misshapen rainbows form

Soldered in a frost of flight, berated
by time’s bating of reflective light—an
ever-embracing mirror's luster dries

this deadly visage accosts it’s gaze
upon the severed recognitions it had made—
replete with every corroded version of the self
ill-conceived and lacking the stomach to abort



4 comments:

  1. nice....really nice flow of though and rhythm in this...and some nice allusions too...the trampled rainbow of hope...lacking the stomach to abort is a nice yet somewhat gruesome turn of phrase as well...

    ps. i have watched V but that one came from the recent viewing of V for Vendetta

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  2. The torment of tantalus popped in as I read, episode title I can't remember from which show though at the moment, brain fart I guess..haha...but yeah we let ourselves get in the way even when we know we or it is wrong and keep on pushing through, usually doing more harm than good.

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  3. Awesome write, Fred. Those closing lines are amazing.

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  4. 'Corroded versions of the self...' another challenging, rending, and excellent poem from you.

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