Showing posts with label subculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subculture. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

A Disconsolate Turns to The Dark Arts for Emotional Support


Tranquility harnessed, by the reigns of fatigue
Birthed by void, cold and terse
Inner-cynics, sparring foot and knee
Balance wavers, so moves forth this curse

Of vapored redress, dark clouds disperse
The covens held, in primal view
A razor shakes, verse to blackened verse
Scratched tongues affirm, each the fears are true

The cauldron’s bewitching path
Its secrets revealed at last
 In highest boil the water finds
Prophecies, both cruel, divine

And standstill you become, paralyses renew
As stake-laid fibers rise again, turning circles will the rope
To tighten knots secure to throat, letting pressure guide its noose
Upon the stains of past, memories faucet empties hope

Paler does the skin then cry, fraying urge faint to cope
As suffocation screams for air, fastest ever beats do start
Strain to push blood’s flow, in this, life’s final trope
First the limbs lilt in languor, and then cede does the broken heart


I thought about composing something especially for Valentine's Day, but instead went this route.  Stop on by to D'Verse for their weekly Open Link Night, read all the great poetry linked up and even link up one of your own.  Pub opens at 3pm.  See you there.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

A Game of Chance

Illusionism
Birthed by bartering-beliefs
For potential gain

Despite the council
Appendages turn
Sour with the decree

Sleight of hand, one, two
Holograms and gradients
Clouding an unknown

Tricks in games of chance
Gambling deceptions of man
Chloroform will dance

Macabre's stirring twist-
Back and forth, above-below
Calendars remind

Salted wounds grow numb
As roulette wheels cease tumbling
Pennies for your thoughts?

Who doesn't like chance?
A world without pit-bosses
Close your eyes, believe in dream

Haiku, Senryu, Renga etc.. are the stakes for the game this week over at D'verse, where Gay started a very nice lesson and discussion on Japanese style in this weeks Form For All.  Here I used a few variations to complete this piece.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Days of Side Arms

The days of side-arms for every man,
Might be forgotten by the majority,
Yet remain habit for a few,
Reaching for their holster at the slightest sign ado
Waiting to snap the leather from its clasp,
Seeing conflict as a revolution,
To which they must commit,

The planks are set fifty feet out at sea,
The waves are violent,
The fish swarm,
To the scent of blood forthcoming,

Three men standing side by side
A crowd waits in earnest
As the ropes are tied
Each offered a moment for apologies
Yet most claim injustice is being served
One kick of the chair,
A drop in the floor,
Cease their words forever more