Showing posts with label Disruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disruption. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Shards of Mankind Broken


Nostalgia burns a fever
In the caustic river’s eye

Tidal boundaries shatter, flooding shores,
forcing debris to swim, well before it's learnt to drift

Ill-equipped thoughts addle. Matted wings resign to weight.  
Flailing, it all feels like flailing….  

The crows nest dangles. It's broken pole slivers.
Remnants linger upon distressful seas.

Venial thoughts are left to stew. Eventually weariness ripens.
The polished and hewn wilts alike.

Overwrought. Ambushed. Daylight is truncated. Evening falls to Stygian design….to those daring enough to dream.

Danger paints a dragnet from your plaster. Hunger feeds the gluttonous rill. Currents, replete with paroxysms, commiserate.

Tragedies offer casualties alone.  In such moments, mankind as a unity is shattered.  All we have is grief and mourning. 

And a river born from sorrow.




Addendum:

If you believe the vortices will calm their vehement swirl, I pray the shoreline shackle heel to sand.

If you believe absolution will quickly cast it's net, I fear that catch shall never breathe again beyond it's gnarled mesh.

If you fear that time will not heal such lacerations, I pray support is ever by your side.




Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Intermittence of Rainfall ( Directionless Dreaming)


Intermittently—
Pianos tripping,   

Overlays the distraction of
A variant shower’s stolen scene
Someplace in the background’s distant frame

Minutia’s outstretched legs
Coveting the space between

Within each the hour’s spent
The cruelty contained
As minutes suffer
The seconds blur
Spiked and dull,

As train-wrecks abound,
Yet hands still clutch
Throttle’s down

It’s somber symphony
Ever playing, soft and slow

Disturbing repetition
The briefly quelled
Eyelids beckon

Of sleep appears
The renewing curse

*quick note:  the piece can be read in either direction, but is meant to be started with the last line and read backwards to the top.  The poem can move in either direction, or so I made that attempt.  What I was going for was to play around with placement, and just see how this notion of placement can alter meaning.  Anyhow, just saying.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Changes


Solid, liquid, gas
A frigid mist at hand
Altering consistency
Of sleep and space

Wolf to human
Human to bat
Bat escapes
With bloody teeth

Shedding serpent,
Regenerates

Ch-Ch-Ch…
No—for another time

Steadfast to the crevice
Open, yet maritime
Adrift—in cradle

Sifted salt
Curated pessimistic
The way nostalgia feels

Crops reaped
Into waiting arms
Of machines,
                  Machines that grind—
Gritted tooth—
Cardboard cogs
Processed fast
To the bellies
Fat yet pseudo-free

Ch. Ch. Ch…
Nyet. Not yet

Beauty blooms
Only to fall in wilt

The dead seed splinters
As stem and stalk unite

A last ditch effort
To elicit

Ch-Ch-Ch…
Pray for it.
Ch-Ch-Ch…
Pray for it.
                  Nein. Nein. Nein.

Constipated are the tear-drops

Pinecone-birth-decay—
Carriage ride…stops to fix
Spoke in wheel
                 
Dawn to day
Day to dusk
Dusk to darkness
In God we trust

Paupers to pulpit
Pulpit to King
King sneers at Queen
ALL JESTERS FLEE

Ch. Ch. Ch
Redact.

Perhaps

Pray for it.

Ch. Ch. Ch
Are you feeling it?
I’m not!
 But I can pretend
Ch-Ch-Ch.  Maybe one more.

Blue flame
Stirring
Stellar
Nova….
Bright

Pristine?
Hardly!
But It’ll have to do.

Ch-Ch-Ch… Changes
Turn and face the strange.
Ch. Ch. Ch. Changes
Turn and face the strange.