Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2013

52.5 Seconds Ago


Extra, Extra, read all about it…
     … And the…. exclusively….
Extra, Extra, read all about it…

: that’s so this morning,
downloaded the full scoop after
my first cup of joe, just before the
spoon sunk the last of the cheerios swimming
in the bowl

Fire: Electricity
Fan blades: Freon
Like: Love
Communication: Status Update
Words: Emoticons and Textspeak

Husbands tweeting wives two rooms away
to tell them they love them

Brother texting sister to turn the volume down on that game of angry birds, never looking over, never prying neck from it's downward angularity…despite being an arm's span apart

Nodding to the tunes you just prepared
Setting playlist for the afternoon commute
A sound interrupts, indicating something has just broken
Only to find it’s some coupon, for some place you never knew existed, despite being down the road for the past six months

Extra, Extra, read all about it
…breaking news…hot off the presses…
Read it first…exclusively…
Extra, Extra, read all about it

:(Shaking head in apathetic disgust)
That’s so fifty-two.five seconds ago…

For Brian Miller's Media discussion for this week's Poetics over at D'Verse.  Check out his excellent article and then tune in to all the amazing responses linked up to the best community of poets around.  

Friday, June 8, 2012

Happily Forever After

The sights are in lavender's and florescent green,
The mind drifts sweetly amongst raspberry and violet blue
The heart swims free, in the deepest red you'll ever see
The body floats atop vitality
The soul sways forever more

There's a thousand voices all around
yet only a few do your ears command
precious melodies made just for you
forever and always
eternally sharing it's life
the heartbeat of a melody
breaks free the chains of darkened night
allowing love's symphonies to sing it's purity of light

It's a place, like none other
where aromas stretch endlessly
through gusts and gales it's scent sets sail
ever reminding you of nourishment and care
instilling the memories of those times, those special
times, when it was never a question, as to whom cared

For all seconds yet to stir
internal visions embrace
the pleasures that result
from tactile bliss,
from the soft caress of a silkened skin
to those warm hugs you loved as a child
and those tender touches, tame to wild
and in such moments, nothing frays thin
when enrapt from the sensations echoed from a kiss

Where linguae mesh, merge and blend
a thousand pleasures primed to taste
sugary sweetness of nature's fields to
the mixtures made in combination, the
texture and the savoring, the nibbles and
the bites, only the favorable, where sustenance is birthed in fun,
where excitement builds into orgasmic scenes
every delectable moment wrapped into one

all life a-rest in balance
where harmonious sensations breathe within
from the parallel to the plane
a recumbency just the same
Supine and prostrate
prone to rejuvenate in relaxation's ease
internally flowing waves of pleasure's seas
to the soft blades of grass, to which the mind
forever wishes such moments to ever last

Perfect ideas swell in thought
enticing memories realized each waking set
where the purities intrinsic to your own beliefs
dance hand in hand with the fantasies and the dreams

All the senses make the one
heaven's breath breathed upon
the never-ending coda, the most beautiful songs of the swan
connecting the familial to the holy, that natural to the societal
ever joined in perfect companionship, always aligned in this, your
most blessed of blessings, forever immersed, forever alive, in
this newfound universe that you once did all you could to fight and stave, that's since become
a world that only ever feeds your soul with passion and love
an idyllic dream you wish and pray to forever stay, alive
with all perfections living as one, never alone, never far
from this sense of God's everlasting glow

Charles Miller is hosting Meeting the Bar over at D'Verse, and has prompted us to write about a world unlike our own.  I really enjoy world building, and have wrote many pieces with intricate settings, but for whatever reason, tonight, after rereading Charles' excellent write-up, I instantly grew full, with the thought of the perfect universe of the afterlife.  And while, not 100% fitting to the theme, I thought the muse should not be denied.  And that, is the backstory.

Please head on over to D'Verse, read Charles' excellent intro, check out what world's the other's have shared, and while there, perhaps you too, will become inspired to create a world of your own, but please do share when you do.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Internal Questioning


A very intellectual man became imprisoned for thirty-five years. His cell was impossible to escape. It was here that he realized, that the root of any truly great conversation must begin from within.  If this truly were the case though, I wonder, upon release, what his future conversations would sound like.  Would he find himself enthralled by the voices and opinions of others?  Or would he find an utter boredom and simply disengage, returning to his familiar back and forth.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Foreigner


The grouse flies worlds away
From where the hyacinths calmly sway
To the symphony stirred from whispered wind

A fossil I am to you
Despite the partition of age
Your so much like I was back when I was
Not a fallen angel, where poor decisions had
Slipped their cursors upon my screen,
When time was but an ever-growing play, without curtains, without actors on the stage.  Just a play

Pursuing a question I’ve yet to find
Perusing the shelves as I dig
Through countless words I cannot read
But love the way they sound when spoke
Its probably something ridiculous or damaged wisdom well rehearsed-
Yet when I hear each syllable roll from the tongue
I think of hydrangeas’, pastries and seduction

Vacuums, race along the route I take
Past the small café I’d always wanted to try
As it looks so lovely each time my feet scuttle by
Yet, I’m never thirsty then

I’ve been here a week, perhaps 10 days,
I’d lost track after the third,
As it’s hard to determine the patience of each hour,
When you’re only speaking aloud in the warmth of the shower’s flow

Nobody knows me.  Nobody cares to approach
No one seems aware even.  It’s as if they’re life is in slow motion, yet they are too busy to adjust the speed.  I’ve made a few attempts, but quickly they creak their necks, as a dog would do, when they listen, wanting to understand yet barriers born determine the breadth of this experience.  Quickly the separation occurs, with a polite nod and perhaps a smile.  I thought everyone, everywhere spoke English, I thought this little book would allow me the privilege of making that first foot forward routine, yet I guess just trying is not always enough, and it must be hard to try having a conversation with someone that’s consistently thumbing through his pages, looking for that perfect word, ignorant that some words change effect when paired with others and at what point in the phrase or sentencing you choose to place them in.  It must be frustrating; I know it is for me.

But despite the isolation one often feels, as he or she wander about, by themselves in a crowded spot, you know, it’s amazing to watch what you can see, to understand without understanding, to believe, because it’s everywhere, a living time capsule-breathing, each breath telling its own tale, history lives in every thing.

And then I turned a corner I’d yet to see
A dark alley, tumbling with trash, lined with sleeping feet, clothed in wares I’d burn.
Run I did not, I paused as long as I could stomach the stench, why?
Simple answer really.  It was the first time a semblance of home resonated. 

But upon the edge of this external corridor, I reached a place I’d often been, just never knew this possibility existed, an alleyway, invisible yet in clearest view.

This was when I first saw you.  And I knew.  Home had found me.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Speaking In Droughts

To speak in droughts is to leave words out,
You divulge your scheme
By imbedding the theme
In code and weaves
Imply but do not state
Leave the reader
The job to evaluate
To equate product and sum
Enable them
As a father would a son
Give them the keys they will require
Infer your desires when
Speaking of all the things in life they could acquire
Be fair and balanced
Create an atmosphere of knowledge
Let every description be their guide,
If they fall they will undoubtedly arise,
Rarely will they option the faulty device a second time,
They will abandon the tool but not the course,
The course will stand as does that shed,
After all you’ve provided them the keys,
Let their imaginations develop for themselves.