Showing posts with label possibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label possibility. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The Bones of A Water-Logged Persistence (Swimmer's Lilt)


A hospitable transmutation—
         Converting nature to nature and form to form

A morpheme unexpected
Provides an individuality all it’s own

Where in duodenum, a plurality’s construed
While in jejunum, emptiness is found after death,
The ileum is the tertiary of the small
It connects to the Cecum, a pouch, uniting the small to large

Phenotypic variation is essential
when evolving from shallow to deep
Genetic pools that drown us under—
A quick flushing finds a tide reigning upon sensation

If not for the (sick) gills mutation’s provided
I’d have floated jetsam like the rest—unable to
Find stowage in some (ill-tempered) future’s ark
         Yet I can swim, and I’m free to swim
Even in these predatory seas,
         I still have a chance, I still have chance, water-wings and all

An extremely late entry to this week Open Link Night over at D'Verse.

My niece brought home a nasty cold from day care a few weeks ago, and I had thought I escaped it's wrath, but last Wednesday I awoke feeling quite miserable, which of course I poo-pooed aside, as a case of getting out of bed on the wrong side.  Well, as the day progressed, so did the bug.  Needless to say I got some medicine and for the most part hadn't really left the house too much since then.  Outside of a couple visits to the store for necessities and a foolish jaunt to the movies on Sunday when I was feeling better, (relapse anyone?), pretty much been a sleep fest with a side of chicken soup.  Well, feeling much better now, but not going to make the same mistake twice, going to keep laying low for the next couple of days until I'm confident this bug is gone for good, which I'm able to do.  Funny thing, it's the first case of unemployment actually allotting me anything of benefit:)  

So, anyhow, haven't been writing really much of late.  But I happened to find the framework of the piece I'm posting right now, which I tweaked a little bit right now, as I didn't want to miss out on OLN and the great company of the D'Verse poets.  So, hopefully I'll be up to speed come tomorrow for tomorrow's event.  I am hopeful that'll be the case, as, (knock on wood), -actually knocking-I am actually feeling much better.  Anyhow.  Quit reading this and head on over to D'verse for the last few hours of Open Link Night. Cheers.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Outtake From The Block Files (Every Yet To Dream)


While dealing with my Writer's Block Stint, I wrote a whole many poems that just weren't up to snuff.  So I thought, seeing there really was a lot of these scraps laying around, that I should retool as many as I could, and so I created this Outtake From The Block Files.  This is the first.  The original was about 5 pages long, mainly prose.  Obviously you can tell there was a ton discarded.  Anyhow, here's the first of this series, one which I'll add to as I find the time to go through all that remains.

A painted archway above the seams
Speaks the story in mind for me
Dry as blank canvas,
Begging for light

To breathe

To wade
Without sanction

To immerse memory
With visions to come

Serendipity lives
Within every passage

Within every yet to dream 

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

If Poetry Could Take A Form


I.       Antiphon
There comes a point in time, when man must accept his limitations, and proceed to take one step before the next, over mortal boundaries, unto sacred earth.

Saturn watched
Paradox of one
Ra gazed
Incandescence unto one

Mercury observed
Confection baked for one
Hypnagogic ambience was but a vale away
When a Psychopomp gestured capaciously

Amaurotic visions darkened blur.
Grew typhlotic as distance stirred

Cays of dryads peak to view
As a Simurgh came to me,
Instructing I wake,
Believing what’s felt despite unseen

A merger, spanning time and space,
Unearthed wonder, as an angel
Saw a gateway to Utopia,
Deep beneath the flaws and scars

Every word, every page
The emotions, the tides
Shifting shape and size

Disbelief dragged its chain
But a pinch gently reminded
Of the reality in possibilities

Astonished, stunned
That reciprocation was alive,
That the first words of chapters new,
Had been scribed; are focusing

Yet fear—
Reincarnates failures past,
Doubt—
Reinforces each my lacks
Pessimism—
That words so real
Must have been spoken
Erroneously still

Yet,
This is when
Garuda came
And spoke to me
Of you.

II. Concomitance

Is it possible for the purities of spirit to instinctively demand, those unlikely origins to isochronally clasp each the other apparition by their hand?

Can the synchronal ideations be cast aside, as simply the spawn of chance and eyes?

Or can a case for fate be made, where kismet is positioned as a postulate, therefore enabling dissemination’s spread, promulgating providential bliss?

III.    Elusory of Preallusion

Divinity’s dominion, sovereign’s soul, dictates prescience as the commodities of pagan pageantry.  Yet, as I’ve always pondered, how one can blindly agree to things they cannot know.  How can one discard the possibility of oracles?  I believe in us all, lays dormant, a sense of the mystical, in which the governance is only as limiting as the mind will permit upon its own capacity.  Everyone experiences scenarios, scenes, where definition will not suffice, where explanation is as impossible to describe. 

Leading towards my own awakening,
I began to see, something positive
Should arrive, through the poetical
side of self.  A premonition, prior to 
those initial words, instructed that
circumstance will alter and happiness
shall return, to covet me completely.
And so the creation of the poetical psyche was born
An infinite quester was upon a search, for the elusive grail of verse.  Directionless it wandered, dimensions vast and wide, spreading declarations of imagery, to any and all who would listen, yet still, even after its voice grew heard, emptiness pervaded verb.  Wander more the spirit would, until through thoroughfare its feet would arrive, upon a palace, where the electricity of the flesh, sparked, as if this feeling it had never lost.  Alive it grew, understood the premonition, perhaps was not for inspiring the happiness of others, but for a joy to burgeon back within.

Hours would be spent, in contemplation of each term, the puzzles that the mind creates, the ideology of mystic space.  Soon thereafter the psyche knew, it no longer had to stifle muse, and like its favorite pet, the phoenix of the sky, the psyche fell that night, purged of all it held to know, the form once taken grew ablaze, and quickly each flame was snuffed to grave.  But for a moment, formless-in void, the spirit was reborn; now limitless is the extent of its poetry.

Time would blur the days from day, the hours from hour, the minutes away.  Eventually it knew what must be done, it must thank his muse, his source of inspiration.  And so, this is, exactly what the psyche did.  Yet, little did it know back then, the inspiration would become its friend, and teach together each they would, of the every possibility in life through verse.

Sand would sift, as it does, yet, one must wonder, where the course preplanned, would direct.  Reading pages from each corner the world, the psyche learned much, understood in ways it had since forgot.  Yet in the palace he would see, words distinct, as if each was patterned directly from the breath it breathed.  It wouldn’t walk too far the plank, yet to acknowledge such would be to take, a piece away, from his belief in poetry.  But he’d learn, his imagination, was in tune.

Now everyday the psyche floats on air.  Seeing signs spring from everywhere.  On packages of chocolate bars, atop an old poster for a Jodi Foster film, from a man, calling to his daughter, misbehaving, in the grocery lane, to a scary movie star, it now only sees its muse face.  But strange as it may seem, in play of words, no longer does it see her there, instead it rearranges each word round, and in subtle combinations of space and sound, it now sees itself as within found.




IV.  Every Good Play, Must Have A Song

Ivory keys turn in note; sparkling symphonic tones it wrote, higher than a cloud above, the music stirs emotive flow:

I’d like to wear you like a talisman
To keep me safe from harm

Hold you to my heart
Listen as the words sway
To elocution’s presence found

I’d like to hide you in an amulet
Protect me from myself

Hold you, upon my heart
As the hours sift along
To that lonely spot,
But with you near,
This distortion,
Will never reappear

I want to wear you like agate
And fall asleep within your milky gaze
While your chalcedonic curves
Elicit the colored bands they make

V.  Arousal, In the Land of Hades

Persephonic
Days split
Between
Here,
And the dreams
The poppy instills

Every instance
All fragments of
Traverse the numb

Every, each
Thought here now
Arouses consciousness
Of self.

The poetry of life
Is omnipresent
If only we all choose to look

The poetry of tomorrow
Resides, in part,
With the decisions we make today

The poetry of the long ago
Sure, it will echo,
Yet only if you allow it in

The poetry of the soul
Is always on
Awake or sleep,
It may be quiet
Yet if you listen
You’ll hear it speak.

Seemingly, since this poetry grew, from ghost-like fantasy, to a befriended reality, I’m aroused always and evermore.

If poetry could truly take a form…



Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Genesis

I.       NECROTIC AFTERBIRTH
Wounds first appear dry
Eventually they split and tear
Until it becomes who you are

In cogent clemency
Salt mines bitter wit
Derisive to the sum of wholes

Salutations stir in winding sheets
Upon the scapulars of whispered words
Tendrils dance in shadow, amongst vetch’s climb

II.     KERNICTERUS
         Misanthropic stew in rot
         Clothes the inner seal
         With an evince of reproach

         Coated generic stem to vine
         Epoxied days number near
         Reddish mount, clotting strain

         Calendar grimaces percent of claim
         Solidifying pessimistic droves of sludge
         Inevitability serrates the breeder’s guilt

III.    BELL’S PHENOMENON
         Dew thistles valley
         As moistened arrows split the spares
         Isolating tightly exposed clench

         Circumvolved oculus axis’ spin
         Gyration’s hypothetic pose
         Enabling fluid’s covetous sheath

IV.    HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME
         Minor threat, severest to limb and bone
         Disjointed treachery sprains; birthed in lax
         Excruciating is the burning; mushrooming inside

V.      SHOW AND TELL OF TISSUES SCARRED
         Displeasure and violent throngs
         Push the impetus to nozzle high
         Urging reluctance ghost on promenade
         Piquant cells Identify anew
         Scored in searing plausible
         Violation of the indices

         Saline purge sweeps the sore
         Brackish scents begin to swirl
Igniting suppuration’s vulgar kiss

         A monitored fault line
         Corrodes receptivity
         And thus, a birth begins

         Numbness apothecary
         Slits a-stir in a briny blur
         Yet nothing is comparable to a drug inert

VI.    METAPLASIA IN JACITATION
         Phoenix imprints its trail with blood-burned flame
         Wounds shed marooned tide; cluster, frozen drips divide
         Lips yet pinched, its aim to cloud, falsetto under guise of pearl

         Altered patterns replace tendency
         Inflecting skewed canvas (prospecting of cavity)
         Deadened by, yet alive through

         A rearranged point of view; dangling; shredding skins that shed
         Delirium and Restlessness’ commingled commonalities
         Abnormally restructuring constituency

VII.   DIDACTICS OF CODA SECT
         Inception guarantees nothing
         Belly’s bloat cannot claim psychic craft
         It’s the emblem and insignia, X & Y elated in creative act
         It is what a parent needs to believe
         That said seed blooms to birth, is deemed hale  
         While pronunciation guides each word it learns to speak
        
         But, it is only through misfortune
         That the fallacy of blueprint skirts the mind
Expedited random twitch, in skull, to tips
Chirping signals loud and dry
But only one correct answer looms
Yet many choose the fault-line
As the easiest of immoral flagrancies
Walked away,
From the nesting sweet,
Abandoning,
Each and every dream,
Ignoring your role in all
Washed hands with tears still numb
Crumpled blueprint skims the can

Salt burns until endings deaden
To void with closed eye alone
Does not change the text
You are still the creator
And love is what your monster craves
For a father, the son still needs

Defective. Nil.
Abnormal. Nil
Alive. Still
Beautiful. Yes
Desires. Same
Pains. Too.
Blood still red. Like your own, is your own.

 I look forward to every Tuesday, as that's the day Open Link Night takes place over at D'verse.  This week Brian Miller is hosting the party this week, no doubt eager to get ready for a long, but inspiring night of poetry, pints and shots lining the bar.  


As for me, I like to offer something a bit different each week.  I guess you could say that, for the most part, I put down experimental pieces each week-all in the name of diversity of course.  This weeks no different.  As I spent some time the past few days trying to come up with a theme, neat game or some nifty wordplay I just wasn't feeling it. I was having a little bit of trouble finding an inspiration.  But, as seems to be the norm, when I wasn't expecting anything, an idea formed.                 


I was scanning through a Medical Dictionary, looking for inspiration and a few terms found did the trick.  This piece is intentionally choppy, disjointed and left broken.  My intent is to bring about several responses at once, discomfort, confusion, sadness, disgust and reflection.