Showing posts with label repetition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repetition. 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

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Can't Break Me Down


You can’t break what’s already broken
You can’t take what’s already been stolen
You can’t
You can’t break
You can’t break me
You can’t break me
You can’t break me down

You never could.

When the head hangs lowly
And when comfort’s gone astray
Just remember, it could not have wandered far from here…
And when you need it,
When you need what’s inside
The heart will find,
The heart will find it there
And then, all things
All those dark clouds and shaded smiles,
Will become those shapes, the epitomes of clear

You always knew, exactly what to say

Thursday, January 17, 2013

1…2…3...






Stylized. Chic. Logistically situated atop a precipice that has yet to peak. We are alive, fully functional, yet inherently winded.  We live as we live, ignorant and often ignored.  Flourishing in a sad derangement of philosophy, a tenor trembles, the trebles high, the bass is broken, and the backsides collide in slates filled by worthless plights. We are clustering in collapsible rings, and so the relics flicker to a new decree, instilled anew in 1…2…3…

A high-fructose dichotomy exists. The bling is sated on the side of outdated radio.  There’s an alto sax playing, a barometric drop a-glow with pressure. With the weather here who can know?  Forward marching so shall we go?  Alive, aloof, we are so disbelieving, always looking for that definitive shred of proof, without, it’s all but din and cacophony, a wasted sound spins in 1…2…3…

After and before, before and after, centers of attention, mid-points for disaster, high-strung, low brow, tensions mount, tackle box without bait, we can’t wait, we can’t wait, to be free, to be free, never begins in 1…2…3…

Hi-fi, new wave, Wi-Fi enabled sense of shame, a sentinel, vanguards of tradition take the fall, are decorated with blame, a livewire flickers in the rain, shocking, shocking, mounted atop the roof of mind, finding shelter beneath a tree, electrocution starts in 1…2…3…

a stack of smoke breaks free life’s soot, in stereo, in stereo…history beginning once again, do you believe, can you believe, streaming live in 1…2…3….

Algorithms.  Anomaly’s.  Stars, bars, lines and code, cracking, breaking free, a dynamic apostrophe relates in 1…2…3…

A variety of translucency bleeds light. A latent vibration echoes a shiver. Illustrations and details, set a sail as elusive, it is nature this is not conclusive.  The words are but representations of what could be. They are only symbolic remnants, ruminations of sound, shattering, stinging, stringing bolts together lightning fast, from which an atomic breeze is distinct…sparkling strong in 1…2…3…

Eardrums bleed with potential. Insinuations label the disturbed and mental, a domination of the populace speaks to the decibels herein found, loud and proud, pounding pavement without the soles of shoes ever once touching down to the stone of ground. Lies start their spree in 1…2…3…

Pride, mounted, jib to spar, cards dealt near and far, gonna let her ride, gonna double down.  With a bluff so strong, you’ll have to have the cards to match or else victories pronounced in 1…2..3…

A fire-fight on planet Nero, golden bricks amassing zero, half-life dwindling, flashing fast, quicker than a video blast, sub-cultured species, harnessed-reined, these are but men, yet still heroes of a different dream, sandman strikes in 1…2…3

Another place, another, realm, cast iron, zinc-plated, breast-plate smell. Glistening, gleaming shapes, photons, protons, electrons swell as a neuron’s beam berates us well, pattering upon the trip of wires, higher, higher, the pikes backed up, there’s no way out, doubting the magnitude of what has just transpired, anarchy.  Rioting in 1…2…3…

A turning zephyrs tail-spun wisp, whipping round, made to shift, retching trees up from root. The severed cracks spanning the ground, all is lost, nothings found.  In a place so high, like Kansas singing from the sky, Carry on my wayward friend, one day soon we’ll make amends.  Until then, the past must persist as long as our breaths still mist, gone again, gone again, marching orders coming quick, dialysis is pronounced, the bile’s thick, black in nature, mankind's sick, the bile’s thick, grey-black-brown-green cultivating this damaged scene, action cutting back in 1…2…3…

A serial apprentice in a frost-bit state, alleviating a pressure mostly high, it’s gonna blow, it’s gonna blow, anxiety trembles as tension grows, flames ignite and the tragic flows, every swiftly, ever long, the pastures are a plenty, the iron-work is not as strong as we thought.  We were wrong, we were wrong…our actions erred, our plots are lost, we’ve been caught, red-hands bleed green.  Disgrace curtsies in 1…2..3..

We twiddle our thumbs and hum our tunes, pass the buck and shoot the stag.  There are those that believe in life yet quickly opt for death. These are the yellow that we see, climbing so high up into trees, scared stiff like cats with claws exposing themselves in 1…2…3…

Little green men are arming up. They live below ground, underneath the craters of the moon, some live in fear, others change their gears, holding signs, praying to, whatever probes they will soon find.  Ineptitude reaffirming in 1…2..3…

A lulling gaze is cast, it shines down upon me and you, you and me, and there we are and here we see, a fallen society, reflected upon in 1…2…3..

Fear swims into and out of mind.  Some gets broken; some are bound. Some lose sight; others are slighted before ever being truly found. Numbing in 1..2…3…

 There is true evil in play. It does exist, in the arbors and the groves, in our biases and the hate that grows. It’s danger dangles in the wind, it’s hounds are hunting, the scent is strong, lost soon becomes found, humanity is digging their own plots to lie, worldwide evacuation begins in 1…2…3…

Shingled, shackled, neon sight, jingle, jangle, brilliant, bright, final, finale, fragments, finite, tragic flow, traffic flow, oh so slow, all have stopped to watch the world have itself a go, fireplugs, arsonists, jitterbugs are juking jabs and shuttling stabs, we are as one here in this plan, painful… pain, Houston called.  Problem’s been solved.  Another acronym bleeds another sign.  Abbreviations activate their launch.  They start the clock that’s ticking free. Countdown’s commencing in 1…2…3….

Fireflies in the sky, burning through the night, galactic tumults sure shine bright. The comet’s tail is trailing nigh.  See the ripsaw shredding through its test.  Violating it’s own principles for the camera.  So many are all too eager to show who’s best, itching to dominate all things in view.  Close your eyes and deeply breathe, this may get ugly in 1….2…3…

A conditioned response rings that bell. Sounding chimes, pealing well. The heat, it grows.  The sweltering spells a new communion steeped in heat.  In every nook a glutton hides.  In every shadow there lives a knife.  Greed’s apace in 1…2…3…

1 to 3
1, 2, 3.
One to two
Two to three,
all is changed, yet nothing has. All is through, all is done. Escape routes hatch. Eyes now see.  Eyes believe. What a view, what a view, yet never realizes, it’s simply the same sights they’ve always been accustomed to. Reframing stirs a new beginning in 1…2….3…
For all that’s happened, for all that’s been done, we can only pray something positive from this comes.  Hope commences in 3…2…1…

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Growing Up

Unborn Unto Oblivion

Stu opened up the D'verse floor for his Poetics night at the pub with the question of Growing up.  Really a lot of ways one could tackle this theme and I highly recommend going over to D'Verse and checking out Stu's excellent article and all the incredible pieces shared by the poets there, of which, we'd all love to read what your response would be.  So, if you get the inspiration, simply compose your own poem on Growing up and then follow the link guidelines to join on in.


Growing up,
Is the combination of innovation and experience
Growing up,
is but a step by step approach to a paint by numbers scheme

Growing up,
Is everything you've never seen and all you wish you never did
Growing up,
Is the gamut of emotions and the ability to call them up upon command
Growing up,
Is sacrifice
Growing up,
Is Never letting them see you sweat
Growing up,
Is not being afraid to quote a deodorant's slogan
Growing up,
Is elation and joy
Growing up,
Is universality
Growing up,
Is arthritis, hypertension and grey hair
Growing up,
Is individually wrapped
Growing up,
Is mass marketed and overproduced
Growing up,
Is both in Hardcover and in Paperback
Growing up,
Is seen in both digital and analog
Growing up,
Is to love and to know, if you haven't loved yet, you still can
Growing up,
Is having a plan
but also knowing when to crumple it into a ball and toss it away

I could've quoted Kenny Rogers
but I'm currently boycotting poultry
and I don't have a handle on the strike zone quite yet


Growing up
     Is making the decisions that do not have alternatives
Growing up
     Is knowing that sometimes failure increases victory
Growing up
     Is learning not to provide the valid argument
Growing up
     Is owning one’s fears and trepidations
Growing up
     Is appreciating your most unattractive qualities
Growing up
     Is not making a choice at all
Growing up
     Is eating the last piece
Growing up
     Is foregoing what you truly desire
Growing up
     Is not caring what anyone thinks
Growing up
     Is simultaneously exploding and imploding
Growing up
     Is letting your opponent win
Growing up
     Is extending equality to all things
Growing up
     Is walking upon eggshells while blindfold
Growing up
     Is acting oafish to accomplish the most delicate of tasks
Growing up
     Is allowing immaturity its due
Growing up
     Is making dreams out of house dust
Growing up
     Is not suppressing what is welled inside
Growing up
     Is ensuring nightmares are seen through
Growing up
     Is getting it
Growing up
     Is nonchalant, ambivalent, carefree and lethargic
Growing up
     Is yesterday, today and tomorrow
Growing up
     Is shrinking
Growing up
     Is not giving a damn
Growing up
     Is incongruent
Growing up
     Is fatalistic
Growing up
     Is dancing with two broken legs
Growing up
     Is to travel into the belly of the lion for the last safety clip
Growing up
     Is moving from the individual to that of the collective
Growing up
     Is plagiaristic
Growing up
     Is necessary
Growing up
     Is gesturing, solely to say hello
Growing up
     Is forgetting to make your farewell rounds
Growing up
     Is not taking oneself so seriously

I could've quoted Kenny Rogers
but I'm currently boycotting poultry
and I don't have a handle on the strike zone quite yet 

Growing up is inevitable, so enjoy it while you can