Showing posts with label curiosity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curiosity. Show all posts

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Infernal Curiosity


Got an itch, got an itch
Fire-red brightly shines
Like a shock of culture in a
Numbing state—Quake
Erupt, embellish the truth and
Watch it rust, flash to dust
Watch it rust, flash to dust

Nightly neon, galactic dolls
Shake their triumphs down the halls
Broken record, playing loud
Blasting forward, dismissing sound
Got an itch, got an itch
Scratching the fever from beneath the skin
Digging deep, deep down in
Digging deep, deep down in

Flamethrower, nitro-sun, blazing bright, blazing bright
Elapsed inferno, tin-tied tongue, shedding light, shed it’s light
Conflagrating fire, burning flames within
Heat is rising; sky’s ablaze, blackening earth, searing skin
Waiting on salvation, praying, that this bug’s been tamed
Waiting for salvation, hoping it’ll end this infernal pain

Temperatures are rising; smokescreen’s filling frame
Hoping for a flashflood, a drowning man’s beckoned
Hoping for a flashflood, to quench the thirst this fire’s sprung
Praying for the rain to come, MAKE IT RAIN, MAKE IT RAIN

To wash away temptation, to alleviate the flames
To damper down the charring and drench the thirst we crave
Douse and spin, Douse and spin
Heaviest downpour, Ferocious wind
Takes away the fire, absolves us from the sin

All comes to a standstill, a silent time for all
Everything’s grown quiet, no motion, no more calls
But it only takes one spark to smolder
Just one drop to light another, to ignite and stir
The accelerant at play, erupting forth, riling up flame’s astray
All to burn and burn again—for mankind’s fire’s yet been slain

Friday, April 5, 2013

Questions From A Room That We Believed To Be Off-Camera


I go through shifts…
…Actually they’re more like swerves…
Moods fluctuate from serenity and stability
To paranoia and indignity

I fly above the choral reefs…
Always pausing briefly to hear the
Chime of their inscribed song…

In such a moment, at such a place…
I wonder, I dwell…and am sent afar…to some invisible place

Can one reverse that which has already occurred?
Can he will the fates away, insist they gouge out a path for some other frayed child of abandon?
Is destiny designed, truly, with unrelenting accuracy…if so,
Then how can we be expected to change?

Perhaps this is all but a game…
Where we each have a specialized role to play,
Some grand performance, meant to entertain some
Ancient and alien breed…

If such is so…. then why, did I accept such a character to play…or did I ever truly have a say?

It often feels as if every movement we make were never our own to begin with.  The mood adjusts to the highs, and then again, of course, to the lows…

When we curse and scream, (awake), riddled by sweat created in dream…

Basking in the afterglow, of some impossible moon, is it any wonder why we question each and every rule, all in order to find the answer to the reasoning to why nothing has yet to donate to us a shine of any kind.

It’s the brightest part of growing, trying to locate those beams of gold.

Are we all slated into each our own positions? We are taught to believe, to strive and aim.  We are told that we can be and do whatever it is we want or need, yet, why then do we settle for what little it is that we do…and why do many simply concede without questioning, giving away every desire, forfeiting all the answers to all those questions we never did think to pose…

Why then, I would really like to know?

Is there even a case to be made…. should we even create goals and believe that we can achieve what the heart’s mind pines to grow?

Or are we but pawns and kings of a different sport…where in this game, we exist entirely on our own. A contest without referees, where the rules are made up on the fly, ones that must be obeyed to a set of guidelines that seem to do nothing but only ever change before we even get a chance to learn the ones that have since grown passé?

And, is it just me, feeling like I’m the only one to recognize this anarchistic state?  Is it in my mind alone, believing that what is supposed to be fun, is anything but?  Do others begin to find that even pretending weighs one’s person down eventually?  Again, I’d really like to know.
Is this all there is?
Could it be?
Is this…is it, as it appears to be?
Have we all truly been played for patsies, even when the playing field is squarely cemented in between the most precious parts of our individualistic minds?
Is it true, have we all been masterfully deceived?
And can it be possible, that we’re the ones that invited these devious opponents into our lives? 
And did we really do so, with a handshake and a smile?
 
Oh, wouldn’t that just be sublime?

Monday, March 4, 2013

The Connection Between A Rhythm and a Stare


 A floe of Gypsy temptation,
     Thinly skims the apex of the surface,
A slue of dull possession,
     Swiftly spinning from it’s stance

There is a collection of delineation,
     An elementary beguilement in askance
There is a sidling of salvation,
     An impropriety of sauntering proportions
Agog, too eager
     To enliven the mirage that blindly
Inhibits the colluding prescriptions that
Control the signatories of sight
                 
Within the wherewithal of sanity,
Exists a microcosmic spasm,
Infatuated by impossibility and the relics of its kind,
Where, if not attended to, imagination may run amok—
And become rampant, writhing to the contagions of such designs

And in premature conclusion, I must declare, that there’s a curious delusion—a connection between a rhythm and a stare

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I was very honored and privileged to have been interviewed by the very talented Laurie Kolp for this week's Pretzels & Bullfights Spotlight at D'Verse.  I'd really appreciate it if you could swing by and read the interview and learn a little bit more about little old me.  And yeah, she even made me sound really interesting:)  All kidding aside though, she really did a tremendous job with the questions and putting the post together. 

On that note, I'd just like to take the time to send, A big thank you to Laurie and to D'verse for hosting such a great series and of course, for thinking highly enough of me and my work to shine the spotlight on me this week.

  

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

A Fairy Tale Rightfully Unpronounced

Head on over to D'Verse where the doors are open for Open Link Night. Check out some amazing poets and their poetry and while you're there, link up one of your own.



I.
There are some fairy tales purposely forgotten

Masked scabbard of the Interferon
Embark me now! Harken deep!

Pincers, heather-gray
residing, in the chaos
of the fay

The scope, the breadth—
freshest are the forceps of
wealth, so forcibly inhaled

Squeeze play…last to first
Squeezing…intensely

Rein in the misgiven logic
harness the bit displayed
bridle order, offer reprieve
To a day, unbeknownst, but veritably
In a somatic state of disarray—
        
II.
Covet the uniform less distinguished
than the dignity displayed so prominently upon the crest

One must love
before they hate
         One must hate
         before they can love
each,
alone,
flawed and frayed—
destitute and drowning-in
a parabola of valor
         affixed and spent
         dignified only
by the wash and wring

In-together
refined in the rough edges met/completely
blent/a merger into one—mixing free—to
a place once lost by me

III.
Music is built upon the foundation of every emotion we possess.  We should carefully consider what melodies possess us full.

No longer have we become isolated
no longer has the interlocutor lost his tongue
proscription, no longer in mask or shaded by

the fear of what is laced within belief—
                          
The opposition grows unbearable
we, haunt the fragments that cluster
in despair—in perilous decree—
then, will understand, will see….
all that is alive in the make-belief
world of inspiration found in song

IV.
There are some things we should never wish for or openly accept without dutiful consideration.

Go back forward
thirsting greater
whet for the knowledge never meant to sate—
hidden amidst the decorations are the words
and agility— of thousand-year-old invisible men

Where ginger henpecks snarl forth
and exaggerated bindings scoff retorts

Where scarlet footfalls shed flaked skin
to dais—ever raising until
gone by
to the sounds
of sepulchral tones
fade…
faded…
fading still…until
awake you grow
resurrected
from your bed—
 of pebbles, topping boulders of stone

V.
The bronzed veil of the squandered dove
attracts our prey and walls the dam
from cracks that call…

Erosion marks,
plated tint
fireflies….alive in glint
yet such a flash, bears the seeds—

That correlate the actions of fessing men—
directing us to the locations where
Attributions are all but lost—
where even the squalors flee
this pathetic excuse for symphony

Enter the hyperstatic repository
built upon the domino’s gradated sweetener
and force-fed mortar—by the shaking hands of tankards
alive, if only to cozen the salivation out from within…

pip to pip it effectively simulates a contagion effect

Burbling are the salivary dreams—
Of cuticles brittle, where bristling trumpets signify
the aloof designs for higher power

Impossibly vacant, yet acting out…
solely to manufacture a reason for
assembling….

A sacrificial toolkit, intent on discovering
the phantasms hovering, closely, near

Where candor has played second fiddle to cowardice…
Now. Vis-à-vis, brazen impudence stutters naught—
boldly affronting the dignity dishonored by such weakening
strife’s…

VI.
If vision is the object of your desire, then sight
shall presently appear…
But be forewarned
you may not won’t like
the images you are now to see!

The reavers are coming—
reapers and raiders, cannibalistic kin—
rising, continuously, from infernal abeyancy

The reavers are coming! The reavers are coming!
to purge both blessed and cursed,
to remind all and every
their scourge and bane


Ensconced abrasions quickly form,
from sentient pockmarks to boils forged

The reavers are here
to burn the bridges built up high

The reavers are coming  
Please pray and hide

Until the strong and proud live freely unafraid,
The results you see will remain the same

Until the worst in man can come out,
To produce the true fear buried deeply south
The reavers will come and seek man out

The ferel beasts will not relent
They’ll destroy without regret,
producing widows and widowers
along their seditious course

The youth are spared,
yet only so the scars can breathe
the foul memory
of their death to come

The reavers have never been defeated
never a casualty to claim
they come and crush
and rattle calm
they brutalize the damned
but bow naught their heads
for the countless innocent’s
they’ve also slain

VII. 
The Final Act is always the most disappointing

Eradication begins….
         when we wedlock our sins

Masked scabbard of the interferon
save me now…
         for I’ve lived a thousand years
                  and, as one might surmise,
                           the years have not been kind.

         I’ve never had to beg
                  so please do not make me now

Bear me my golden veil
         for without,
I fear
this reign
will be short-lived