Showing posts with label independence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label independence. Show all posts

Sunday, March 11, 2012

What She Deemed as Independence


Fretting the skylark vignette, thinking
was it troublesome, I forget?
fragile, damaged—subterfuge
inserted through—detachers landing pads
abruptly fluttersome, this dark dove
of scarcity…crumbs…and ain’t that so so so so

Sweating the tough clues, brick
upon brick, soft at the mortar-side—
flashing incoherence, representable
detonation—of scoffed genuflections—
easily mutable are distractions—but—case
in pointed point presents the presences of pretension—sweeping through—a haunting dark—reefs broken by—all the everlasting—
freak flags glowing—bezerk—ghastly—cruel—but who knows the pick to blame?  and ain’t that so so so so

I’ve dreamt the same dream for decades now,
there I sat mountain high, observing as
colossal tides collapse, collide—into the low
craggy tips, barely breathing—there—above an ocean’s rising floor—draped amongst the plankton skirts and corral tees— the red, the blues—and there, I realize, I’m more own worst anemone.

 shine shine shine though, sparkly shine—the party beats still—expectations don’t surrender—must try, must try—then, there—without trying—a memory—how beautiful the ceiling looked—cloud covering fog below, the light shards pierce of select wave—It was beyond peaceful, beyond any Eden I could ever know—ecstasy until….”damn pills said I’d sleep through the night”

…and attrition reminds me—everything I had purposely ignored— while sleeping under stardust, coveting whatever the splashing leaves behind—

however –
neurons remembered the firing pin—and…and, the words were still there—as if they had never left—intact—survived—still remained—exactly where last placed—way back when—on that day—the one you called your independence— as you stood tall upon that reef, watching the schools swim so so so    

Monday, July 4, 2011

Independence


Auditory shields withdrawn
         Unveiling the perplexities of paradoxical revelry
As freedom chimes the chalice brim
With golden spoons and self-satisfactory grins
         On this day some time prior,
Atop this very soil independence alit desire
 Through violent means and refusing coils
A snake once tread was draped in silence

Entertaining the truce beset before
Pandering swiftly because and for
Sentient creations bright and biased
Mindful only to the severed silence
Accompanying the loops beneath
Underpinnings of dream and feast
Many still free to suffer
While the morally indigent smugly sit,
In fabrics befitting of fancied queens and kings
         Smirking their usurping smiles
Daring to outline those sins that assailed against
As they detail painful occurrence
Resulting from illicit trysts and fits
        
         And yet they suffer still,
As undigested beast and swine
Foully stutter beneath their belly lines
         Dousing gluttony’s grit
With each reddened chalice
         Tipped throughout periods of shortened time

Contrast this suffering
 To the scraps denied
         Those tables where true patriots dine
Happy to live and breath in a land that’s free
         Content to rest heads at night
Knowing love has blessed each of them
         That anything is possible
Despite the outstretched necks and noses snubbed
          Piling their plates with oppressive “love”
 As those stuffed tummies
         Bobble like gelatinous cubes
Amused by parlays wagered upon
         The distance made by children of a common man

Night terrors pass
As lightning affixes a midnight sky
Erupting pulsars
Loaded high
Where snakes stain the hands of children
Both rich and poor
***
Evading Bedouin tags
 Once reserved
For clouted men
In silken rags
And those defined
By poverty
 Somaticizing

As the tides shuffle in a darkened moon
The earth hides its vegetation under
Blankets of sleep
         Sounds of starlight whispers
         Take a bow
         As curtains retract
         Illuminating annualized Passion plays
All ills rescind
All sins forgiven
For but invariable lengths of minutes spent
On a hill
Or in the stands
Above the skyline
Looking out
Alone
Or in the company of many
Where outlooks are for the moment
Unified
 Overlooking oceans and seas
From far off lands caressed by sandy sheets
To elaborate palatial escapes in the east
                           Palettes shift
                           In shade and hue
                           Assumptions bleed well into
                           The extravagance blinding the sight of stars
                           As the orchestral movements carve their niche
                           All eyes become enriched
                                    From Presidents to hoodwinked fool
On this night, independence and hope comes alive for you