Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2012

A Consortium of Grecian Time





Soldier, poet, dramatist
Father of tragedy
You
Changed the
Way we smile.

Mathematical in its
Elements.
Deductions and axiomatic
Postulating. A
Geometry known not prior to
That parallel
Point,
But one
Line may
Pass
Through

Biblical in breadth
A diaspora’s been met
Sowing seeds
Distant far

As close as man
may be
To apotheosis
We’ve yet to see

Classic beauty
Sunbelt crush
Serenity of a
Steadied poise
Lost to
the
Collapsing praise
 Time knows not
What values one puts upon the individual ray, forgetting
About the center’s bubbling blaze—

Throughout history
Man has pushed forgiveness
To its gravest ends
Testing what
Could be rationally
 Abused before
Hollowed ends
Accrue

Humanity is a contrast economy
We strive to breathe descending views
what it means to understand
the opposing schools
Recklessly
We’ve pandered
For centuries long
Creating pacts and promises
Have been
Predicated upon deceitful hues
That wither, wither, fray

We have
Our communion
And yet, we have our
Betrayals, and they are
 felt ever the more
inherent, when composed unto the flesh, and
     unrestrained when composure only lives
yet, we lived,
              albeit in frenzy’s first breath taken,
amongst the soul,
 of the undisciplined, molting clear those spectrums
oft abused

By timelines, we learn to merge into one, into
The Blur that forges a definition, into
That which has yet begun…

from the sun, to the sea and the sky to the tide
No matter the context, in spite of the ride, the lengths and shackles yet unfettered about malnutrition’s feet, deposed by all the deposits of those underachievement’s we’ve ever learned to make… and yet we’ve always understood how to take aim, and that has to count for something, right?

Mankind has ever found itself as the child of a God, how does one live up to that shadow?

So, just to cast their own beacon of distinction, we often abuse the grace of our father, we often stray from the generous path plotted fresh for our soles alone, and instead of living in luxury’s shadow, we chose to bathe in the cold showers of absence, where we so eagerly became
The makers of rain, irrational beasts
Amidst the moistened shade

And yet…
We meditate
Upon mentally
Equipping ourselves
To deal with what comes our way

To follow nature
As does the stem
To its thorn, is
To disseminate
Good and bad
From the indifferences
In-between the dark and the gray

Run, ragged tryin’
     To catch grace upon wings once craved
But these were not intended for

Man. Bull. Lion
     Egg. Coiled—
Cracking, splits
Ticking, cloaks we mask
Through beards untamed.
until
Hands cease  from cross
Again

Falling
Deep
Into
A rece
Ssion we
Simply can
Not return
To the grammar that’s been
Given to us upon
Our births…and we run
         Away, frightened by the photo albums taken from our father’s early days, brimstone, we’ve seen it in his eyes, we’ve smelt it upon his breath, touched it on his hands

Yet, because of our irrational fear
We forget
Warmth is not reserved for hell alone
And
No matter
What we’ve done
Our father
Will
Always
Accept us back

Warmly, in his arms,
The truth can never be rescinded
Not by man or any other beasts we may encounter for advice
Yet, Just that alone, makes one wonders
Why do we seek advice from outside sources
When the wealth of the world exists within our father





Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Darkness Sheds Its Shade





And darkness sheds its shade —

An immutable décor… of tragedy and ambiance—
Decorates the stairwells dry… in cautionary tales…
Resembling attitudes forlorn

An overzealous laundering—flashing fortnights tourniquet
free—sparkling stimuli—erecting variety from every creative creed…and unto the misanthropy…we gaze into the primal clutch…
the forbearance bred from what’s beneath…
cluttering the stairwells dream…of unattended phobias…
yet ignoring…the cadaver’s misaligning gleam…

It’s in such ambiguity, where forgetfulness casts its hollow net—
displacing the swoons of nonchalance…unto creatures of behavioral supremacy—arresting all the audits there…those that comingle, share…where soon, becomes more than a certainty to come

Of virtue and vigilance, a valor caged amidst a crystalline crypt…mesmerizing…blinding still…as (distortion) befriends the whispered air… where catastrophe drives forth its haunts… those miscreants toting barren shields…a precursor to one’s unbridled sarcophagus….sealed…slamming shut…the entombing rhythms to disrupt…the permitting raindrops, their preferential forgery…staying…etching upon…that which repeals too easily…ceasing timbres encased sleep… beating out the last…harmonious tracts of minutia’s pattering recline…

And darkness shed its shade once more…

To end their fall…
The reflection, in Gemini’s sympathetic mirage
To end their fall…
The albatross, in empty space, white as day, shackled yet disinteresting
Where the draper lays his nightstand for the eve…

And darkness reigns sublime…a superficial aplomb to climb…razor edged in sepia stain…conjuring the scars parade…rekindling the knotted root…ensnarling clasps pinching deep…into those crevices we shouldn’t keep…

And a fragrance of wood…burns…it is of once swift glance of this lost façade…embellishing all inherent charms of shame…brokerage of tapestries…every inch…but a myth…indicative of inhibitive indications….a temple of tragic appeal…
Exposed to a crustaceous arch of mortality…rendering it’s sharp pitch of chord...elongated dins to steel…bearing but a minimum of shrapnel once sent…out into the outer depths of perimeter…amongst the salacious personnel…forced sit tied unto misleading rationale…ne’er permitted the penitence behind
the truthful décor…within

A crimson blush is summoning,
Through interjectional accords…manipulating…manifolds of opiates…devouring the platitudes…into arrangements apropos 
To such delusional discourse

Seemingly, such verbiage, ecclesiastical in tone throughout…yet disjointed through the words of mouth…our secularity…mimetic contrivances…gambols about…a ricochet of omitted hand-scaled seams…that have…always been
Here, there and everywhere

Amongst the howling fay,
beneath the falling sun
our preeminence, here
obtains the thought contained within the
diverted tongue..

And behind the shade-less mesh
The scars, the scars catch… upon the thickets of whispers—no, the whispering cisterns…enticing our fluidity…even though…the dream has been deciphered naught…yet always…paving clear arteries…leas reserved for the emptiness we’ve always known…

And it is here, as well, where darkness sheds its shade,
For rapture secures no pleasure toward…a fate encouraged to permeate in manners scorn…however, one cannot change the motion gathered thus…without the confrontations you’ve interred deep below…

Persistent agonies must cede first its postulates…seek reformations…risk deliberate dishonor…before the shades
may wither away…
And pretend…to have disappeared…
as it is with all things pertaining to flesh…
[temporarily permanent…]

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Intemperance: The Insignificant Parallel of a Denigrating Identity

Bottles by Borg de Nobel / http://borgeous.wordpress.com / used with permission /
For Poetics: Borg de Nobel @ D'Verse, hosted by Claudia Schoenfeld




9 to nine
aligned, atop some fragile ledge-
at least that is how it once appeared-
when we regretfully never paid much attention- to the
finite desires and infinite dreams of those details deemed
as immaterial noise-whitened by conundrum and muted under
the guise of second nature-

when we had already forgotten the appearance of our first

Broken, fragmented, blurring, shard-like daggers-
driven deep, from the imagined dimension residing
only inches behind the retinae-

Corroded by dancing apparitions,
unconcerned with division or caste-open wide,
lean back-until
the spine quivers from denial-
and then
through design
beg
for antidotal reassurances-

where it won't matter
if you fabricate
the meaning and the mores
as long as the intention is
to propagate an atmosphere
unique to here

by lipstick and whitewash-
careening imagery
blends into smear-
only to seek shelter
from the dirty mugs that persevere-

the hours, drenched in withdrawal-
yet ever awakened at the slightest scent

elixirs, potions, prescient concoctions
potent yet potable
protraction in non-invasive postures-
bled fresh for that falsified sickness burrowed impossibly within

withering

bottles of what-might-have-been,
condemned by their isolated indiscretions-
validated through witless reminiscence
and the scouring that envelopes all
enlivened beasts-

Where the frothing disturbances blink-
concomitantly with exaggerated frames-
originally built for the demons of phoresy-
the remoras of your world-worthless in
many ways, yet still, you allow them passage
in bewildering effervescence,
adulations, you've grown too frail to dwell upon

and despite all things antithetical to a state of proper
being, you gain a fondness, a possessive remorse unto-


alternating chromatics
imbuing the hearth with
flames that burn
flush, flashing forth from
a lost prism's fire-
where forgotten
invitations colate and concur
in dystopia's
cascading obfuscation

Make sure you head on over to D'Verse, and read through Claudia's excellent write up.  If you're like me, you'll really find the Q and A between her and Borg de Nobel fascinating.  Finding poetic inspiration through her art was extremely easy.  In fact, it was virtually impossible not to find inspiration.  That said, if you like this piece or any of the other's from Claudia's article, do yourself a favor and check out the artist's site, lots of excellent pieces there.

And, I guess, I might as well throw in some shameless self-promotion here.  I also paint for fun, digitally though, and have an art blog as well.  While not really even in the same conversation as the work Borg does, but I do a lot of abstract, experimental painting, that perhaps you might enjoy.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Masthead


Label me an infant
label me a fool

do not trust the anarchist
preaching about rules

label me a scapegoat
label me a tool

do not dam the floodgates
lest inside they form a pool

label me a train-wreck
label me as blind

its good to poke holes in theory
so truth can breathe in time

call me what you like
call me what you don’t
it doesn’t matter to me;
I’ve learned to laugh at all your jokes

labels are scattered; they’re thrown around
labels are but words; always lost, but never found

they have no bearing; they play no role
in who I am, to what I do

they have no influence; they have not a say
as to what fate finds in store for me

your words fall deaf, meaningless and weak
never providing the satisfaction that you seek

your words bring pain to others, highlighting their many scars
but you should be reflecting, as to where the damage starts

your words are but a mere transference
of what you’ve been and where and who you are

sticks and stones…if it appeases you…
just know…that for each judgment cast
I’ll shed a tear in prayer for you—
Forever using those labels as my mast


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Friday, December 2, 2011

Requiem of a Shape-Shifter



Apocrypha, in an age of identity
Shifts the coward into a state of dependency,
Thus becoming a disciple of anonymuncule’s filth and veil.

For the nameless little men
Anamnesis beckons regurgitated fear,
For he may see the faces surrounding him,
Thus remembering his own infrahistoria

Visions of pine
Scintillate his perversions,
As anabasis approaches nigh
His preponderance of though
Travel murky skies,
Seeking any causality where,
His stone shall be composed,
By anything other than
Amphiboly