Showing posts with label Carnival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carnival. Show all posts

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Carnie




I’m hoping to get to where
I have to be—without using
crescendo’s descriptive
property

The smells of traveling folk
irradiate definition
procure inhibitory realms
and guide the soul to
where, all’s cast unto pools
of a tolerant breed

Mystics, madmen, gypsy, seers of
romani lore, clashing western
culture with their crystalline torrents
of adrenalin

Pulsing…

Eddy’s, whirlwinds, the vortex
and a single parasol—
 swirling with purposeful nonchalance,
through each element near and far,
stealing pieces imprisoned in, every rotation
another sensation floods your face, past the eyes,
through internal trellises, residing

into crescent shells, of a 
Once magnifying moment
in unbridled pleasantry…

Sounds…depress the catalytic
for they can listen but not revel
in the auditory repetitions, left to

Taste, funnel cakes and honey-sex
on display, waiting for your foreign

Caress, unto this sport of touch that will never tell
of
Ticket stubs—torn—
turnstiles, in need
Of lubrication—
still frozen since 1969

For Poetics this week over at D'Verse, the uber-creative Claudia Schoenfeld is hosting, and presents us with the challenge of composing a piece surrounding Fun Fairs, or how they say it where she's from, Jahrmarkt, which has such a better ring, and lets face it, is such a cooler word than Fair, Fun Fair, or even Carnival.  So head on over, take everything in, and dream back upon your own experiences and memories, and compose a Jahrmarkt poem of your own.  But, please, make sure you link it up, so we can all live vicariously through your words.