Showing posts with label Painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painting. Show all posts

Saturday, April 6, 2013

An In-exact Rendition of Analgesics Induced By Ill-Conceived Variations of What Once Was So Fondly Known as Histrionics


Vexing winter, culpable, equally
In each her ghastly appellations,
Pronounceable or not—

To annunciate, if but for a solitary syllabic
Representation, regardless of key, you are to
Feel, what flames writhe through her internally—

Slack-jawed, amazed, yet mainly from fear, each
Observation allowed, becomes a memory ruefully
Spent, in depreciative dissolve and disillusionment—

To witness is to feel, the snarling hooks paring clean
The canvas from its frame…watching as the paint, is apportioned randomly—stylistically similar, yet confusion, also has made and continuously makes such claims consistently…

In a manner of speaking, a cloud exhausts the oxygen, as the last breaths befriend an approaching maiden sent from afar, where her beauty alters, in waves, toggling between, asymmetric recollections, abused by a deepening lust, ignorant of just how representative grow the scars…

Hallucinatory amplification contorts the demonic vice grip that strangulation bestows upon the parted cleft of lost worlds reunited in forced mergers and therein reuniting the fallen with the spawn of Adam…

And in those first few unmeasured moments, to where the end began a sequence—one that illustrated the birth of abhorrence, and just how quickly a kingdom of infernality, could be created in such a place, as the most unbecoming of southern stalls.

Shivering…yet cold is not understood…

Enflamed and razed, but the coals are like rocks placed beneath a rill so quaint…

The shapes and forms would’ve continued their skew upon perception, if not for the blissful accompaniments, of which the heavens shawled down to comfort thee,

Guarded, even the worst of us garner the sympathy from family, even those we’ve shunned aside, turning our backs upon…for no father wishes, nor can bear to watch such depths of pain and suffering blanketed unkindly over the eternality of kin…

Such incoherent byproducts of this unsettled estate, a placement or tomb of state, which is that thing, so far removed from the vocabularies of what most, hopefully, can truthfully comprehend…

And when the worms covet what remains, you’d have been long since removed, and we will have then, long since parted ways…

Floating ethereally above, the vision grows smaller, losing its impactful proximity with each fluttering ascent of your downy-feathered heroines and apathetically devouring elves…

Yet still, you are encouraged to keep watching…for it is known, that only sentiments of unconcerned psychologies will confront you therein…as angels escort you to that place above, way beyond and far away from the defilements that ever so persistently remain determined to singe and sear any and all incoherent melody relegated to distaste, pain and all things wished invisibly felt…

And then…the shame of what once was, becomes again…a relic, a history untethered…bound no more, by the shell that for so long had bore your name…


Friday, February 22, 2013

Love Graffiti Style


Love,
Compressed or constantly
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Love,
Compressed or
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Stop on over to D'Verse, where for this weeks Meeting the Bar, Anna is exploring Graffiti and how it relates to the world of poetry.  Definitely a D'Verse you don't want to miss.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Growing Up

Unborn Unto Oblivion

Stu opened up the D'verse floor for his Poetics night at the pub with the question of Growing up.  Really a lot of ways one could tackle this theme and I highly recommend going over to D'Verse and checking out Stu's excellent article and all the incredible pieces shared by the poets there, of which, we'd all love to read what your response would be.  So, if you get the inspiration, simply compose your own poem on Growing up and then follow the link guidelines to join on in.


Growing up,
Is the combination of innovation and experience
Growing up,
is but a step by step approach to a paint by numbers scheme

Growing up,
Is everything you've never seen and all you wish you never did
Growing up,
Is the gamut of emotions and the ability to call them up upon command
Growing up,
Is sacrifice
Growing up,
Is Never letting them see you sweat
Growing up,
Is not being afraid to quote a deodorant's slogan
Growing up,
Is elation and joy
Growing up,
Is universality
Growing up,
Is arthritis, hypertension and grey hair
Growing up,
Is individually wrapped
Growing up,
Is mass marketed and overproduced
Growing up,
Is both in Hardcover and in Paperback
Growing up,
Is seen in both digital and analog
Growing up,
Is to love and to know, if you haven't loved yet, you still can
Growing up,
Is having a plan
but also knowing when to crumple it into a ball and toss it away

I could've quoted Kenny Rogers
but I'm currently boycotting poultry
and I don't have a handle on the strike zone quite yet


Growing up
     Is making the decisions that do not have alternatives
Growing up
     Is knowing that sometimes failure increases victory
Growing up
     Is learning not to provide the valid argument
Growing up
     Is owning one’s fears and trepidations
Growing up
     Is appreciating your most unattractive qualities
Growing up
     Is not making a choice at all
Growing up
     Is eating the last piece
Growing up
     Is foregoing what you truly desire
Growing up
     Is not caring what anyone thinks
Growing up
     Is simultaneously exploding and imploding
Growing up
     Is letting your opponent win
Growing up
     Is extending equality to all things
Growing up
     Is walking upon eggshells while blindfold
Growing up
     Is acting oafish to accomplish the most delicate of tasks
Growing up
     Is allowing immaturity its due
Growing up
     Is making dreams out of house dust
Growing up
     Is not suppressing what is welled inside
Growing up
     Is ensuring nightmares are seen through
Growing up
     Is getting it
Growing up
     Is nonchalant, ambivalent, carefree and lethargic
Growing up
     Is yesterday, today and tomorrow
Growing up
     Is shrinking
Growing up
     Is not giving a damn
Growing up
     Is incongruent
Growing up
     Is fatalistic
Growing up
     Is dancing with two broken legs
Growing up
     Is to travel into the belly of the lion for the last safety clip
Growing up
     Is moving from the individual to that of the collective
Growing up
     Is plagiaristic
Growing up
     Is necessary
Growing up
     Is gesturing, solely to say hello
Growing up
     Is forgetting to make your farewell rounds
Growing up
     Is not taking oneself so seriously

I could've quoted Kenny Rogers
but I'm currently boycotting poultry
and I don't have a handle on the strike zone quite yet 

Growing up is inevitable, so enjoy it while you can
    
    





Friday, August 3, 2012

Descendants of Moreau






…and the aroma dangles in the air
Slowly sifting attention away
From all that is and will surely be to come
Armbands are snipped, calling forth the next in line

Slowly sifting attention away
From the Fibonacci sequencing at hand
Armbands are snipped, calling forth the next in line
Collapsing, when confronted by the red ghost behind the door

From the Fibonacci sequencing at hand
Perils form in the mixed metaphors that are tears
Collapsing, when confronted by the red ghost behind the door
Etching rivers unto thighs—for fear’s signature cannot be forged

Perils form in the mixed metaphors that are tears
Rancor amongst pretentious veils, falsely uncovering discoveries felt
Etching rivers unto thighs-for fear’s signature cannot be forged
Ominously carving variety unto allele’s unseen

Rancor amongst pretentious veils, falsely uncovering discoveries felt
In the name of Science, detestable explorations commence
Ominously carving variety unto allele’s unseen
Under the direction of men who truly believe themselves Gods

In the name of Science, detestable explorations commence
From all that is and will surely be to come
Under the direction of men who truly believe themselves Gods,
…and the aroma dangles in the air


For Sam Peralta's Form-For-All Pantoum prompt over at D'Verse.  Stop on over to D'Verse and make sure you read Sam's excellent write up regarding this form.  It's one of my favorite forms and I think you'll find it both challenging and exhilarating to compose.  Check out what the poets have created in their Pantoums and while at D'Verse, think about creating and sharing a Pantoum of your own, as there's still time to get your poem linked up with the others.  Cheers







Sunday, August 7, 2011

Uneducated Bliss or (Allowing Shadow-Tainted Eyes To Filter That Which Has Been Heard)


Mystery and Melancholy of a street by Giorgio de Chirico

The trailers are all empty
The children are at play
Monstrosities and unspeakable voyeuristic veers
Churning stomach yet intoxicating are the views

Shaded passage
From east to west
Shadowed blankets
From southern alleys
To northern peak
Children play in the lighted spots

Emptiness
Calm
Prior to the first 
Mirage

Pillars strengthening the town
Echoic symmetries
A Merger with the reality
Where teardrops, the taste of untested years

Drowning out the rhythmic patter
Of jubilant vaudevillian sound
Are the beasts unchained
Who've not been offered a choice

Fight for yourselves
Clashing steel caressing shield
The roaring travels it's way 
From coliseum to covered street

Those without entry
Those who stand guard 
Twitch as the sounds stand still
While the children are at play
knowing not the difference
between melancholy and joy
When new mysteries are but
A shrouded street away

Thanks to the D'verse crew for Open Link Night and for the art inspired prompts of Giorgio de Chirico, for without one or the other, this piece would not be here either.