Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts

Monday, August 19, 2013

Trouble Making Sense


A flagrancy of purpose
Bestowed upon the bountiful beyond
A vanishing, surrendered
While editing the epithet of man

Focus
Respond
     Meditate
     Reply
              Visualize some far off place
              A palace without the aftertaste
              An Eden without the snakes
              An apple for your troubles
              A dagger for your dreams
So much, so little, so what?
Well…. as to that, I guess,
We shall see


Sunday, May 19, 2013

Teachers From Ancient Realms


A smoke signal,
A message sent,
Blacks, whites, merge to gray
Telling the truth in creative ways

Chisel, stone,
Carved symbols upon wall,
Picture told, a lifetime sprawled
To look back now,
Modernity can’t but stop but be in awe
Of how the primitives taught their laws

Oral stories
Drift like dreams
Pronounced from lips
Transforming ears…
              …And where’ve they gone?
                       Where I ask?
Have they gone…why are they not with us anymore?

Monday, April 8, 2013

Debased Curricular


Knowledge lends stability to an ever-changing landscape,
Time is the agitator to the unprepared, the devolving attributor to the weak and for those without direction.

Life seems to do everything in its power to swallow the meanderers amongst us.  The lessons it offers are of a curriculum set out to debase.  From the smallest to the largest, minutia is simplistically inhabitable.

Ignorance suffers plague like the painted womb cringes when left alone with murals too bright. Intelligence slow-dances every inch of pier, prior to its descent, information bleeds out, ironically in patterned abbreviations otherwise known as the scars of a once tainted submarine.

Falter freely. Smile as widely as the jaw allows. Dream to fail, and then dream some more. Desire only truth that’s earned.
Do so before time wears thin. Stay patient; do not stray.

The bristles deliver the deepest caress. It scours impurity away from even the most ironbound of wired flesh. Breathe freely; fade away…but try your damnedest to reciprocate.


Saturday, May 12, 2012

"It's about Wild things," who Gnu…{OS} "No, it's about monsters"

Over at D'Verse they're talking about Wild Things.  Stop on over for the beer, but stick around for the poetry on tap. Cheers.


When I was a child
I could care less
where the wild
things were…for I already
knew, it wasn't a them
but a him, yep, Charlie
Sheen, in one of
the funniest films on
baseball every made…the
original one people…the original

But as I mentioned
in the opening line
I was a child.  Yes,
a child but not a child
without interests..that's for certain.

I saw those many monsters
atop lunch pails, on books
kids were reading with some
attendant I had far too early
a crush on.  But hey, that's
pre-pubesence, yep…

I actually remember one kid
I knew, he had his math book
covered in wild things print, I had
a plain grocery bag cut to fit…I'm
who I am, and he's…well I really
don't know, never cared to...,
but now that you got me thinking about
it, I know a guy who knows a guy who
knows a girl that could probably tell me…

But I was a kid, a kid that liked what he liked
and knew what he thought he liked and those
drawings never impressed me much…nope
I preferred transformers, GI Joes and comic
art…thought these wild things were embarrassing
to be considered in the same industry that could boast the likes of Frank Miller..yep
wolver-fn-rine.  Now that was a wild thing, for sure, with
bones made of invincible steel that could protrude from his
knuckles as he saw fit and a body that self healed…yeah, that
dude was badass…and his name was Logan for crying out loud, now
that's a name…

But I was a child back then and didn't really appreciate many of
the things I do today…I didn't know the first thing about the ologies,
nope, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology, these things were not a sprig
on my uneaten dinner plates….

But, today, things are a bit different…and I look at things with a much broader view, one filled with an appreciation for novel creations, uniqueness and open to suggestion/acceptance…

So, while I still don't particularly think these wild things are the prize of the art world, I appreciate what they are, and how they do what they do…

lines that reek of instability
Disproportions mirroring the inner mind
Monsters…a metaphor….yep

for society and for our own personas…we most certainly can be and it's important to understand this, and it's important for us to embrace this, so we can keep them under wraps…

So…long story a bit longer than intended here….that dude crafted some pretty deep things there in his wildest of imaginations come to life…and that
is
cool.

Very cool.
And who would have ever thought
A child would have to mature
to enjoy what a monster represents.

And it's sad when anyone passes before there time, but at least, this author got to spread so much of his imagination to children everywhere, and to late blooming adults as well...

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Dutiful Bones

Manicdaily is hosting Poetics tonight over at D'Verse.  Tonights prompt is to write about duty, obligations etc.. Head there to see the great poetry linked up tonight, and while you're there, how about taking a stab at the prompt yourself.  Cheers.

Distancing the gap created
by lost vestiges and saltine
goodbyes, I must say, are
words that I simply allowed
slip from tongue to page.

Transient digressions into
dark and tattered ventricles,
I feel as if I deny this
journey more often than
naught.  For fear, perhaps
I allow the sinew to entangle
and to clot.

Saracens and poets, salesmen
and thieves.  Liars and bigots,
parrots and queens.  Lower-cased
opinions, divided amongst
grandiose ideas that will never
pass the eyeball test….yet
time fades quickly, and we stare
and stare, for ways…

Approaching the chambers of
wind and steel.  Dancing with
zealots and laughing with fools.
Caricatures aren't we all, of not our-
selves than tell me whom?

Chagrined impressions done
with pen in hand.  Sincerity
lost in terrain we've no business
upon.  Or do we?

Isn't the air free to breathe?
Last time I checked it certainly
was….there I checked again,
and perhaps you were right,
there's something in the wind.

A line of prosperity is often not a line at all
An area of magnitude is often very small
Sailboats and augers both
set for the unknown
in spite of what may be
buried
deep
within
the stains we
see

Dutiful bones, unearthed, to dust...

They say to write for twenty minutes
they say not to lift the pen, er. fingers,

They say not to filter
they say not to punctuate
or to worry about spelling.

But if, I chose to do as they instruct me to,
there would be so many dissected sentences,
so many foreign words scattered about the
page.

If I chose to obey their wisdom, surreal
architecture of a journey would not be all
that unwinds…for when I dream, which of
course, I'm a poet, so I do it all the time…

You'd find love, freely anointing most the page…
not that there's anything wrong with love
not saying that at all
but last thing
anyone wants to read
is advice from
one who
never takes
any himself.

So now I'll sing the songs I hear
as they scrawl about the air..
right now, it's Nine Inch Nails
slowly speaking of elaborate
dreams…in a song called right
where it belongs, which, now
as I reflect…is as perfect as a song can get...

darn it all to someplace hot, the
stopwatch chimes it's note, but done I'm not

Okay, I'll cheat, just don't tell anybody…you promise…
ok, I'll quietly finish
by saying, in regards to duty…

I do this for you but
mainly I do this all for me…


Thursday, April 19, 2012

A Song for Immature Savants


Draconian devils in a pristine shell
amenable shills in a damning hell
predators and parasites
vagabonds to guttersnipes
adulators; sycophants
prime movers and those who can’t

Dressed up, candor in a scarf divine
red sails stir, cloaking past
the silicone and fiberglass
timing’s early, hours late,
pursing fourth’s, contracting fate
                                                      words sung with a torrid force
You want a story
open your eyes
you want drama
fight; survive
you want a hero
that I can’t provide

Mosaics and masquerades
promenades and palisades
chardonnay smiles and bourgeois tears
contemptible intentions reflecting fear
nesting cretin’s scar the pleat
(dilettantes (poor Faberge)) eggless and incomplete

Dressed down, guile to spine, slick corset veiling lines
black-toed, shin to heel, flaming skirt, striking fast
high slit thigh, low draped neck, a fire-flash
breaking down, broken in,
the radio’s deafening, silent din
                                             and we begin again

You want a story
open your eyes
you want drama
fight; survive
you want a hero
that I can’t provide

no, that is something
only you can breathe,
that is, if in yourself,
you choose to believe
  

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