Showing posts with label wordplay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordplay. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The Damned Beggars In The Cold


Hither, dither, tither, fro
To, from, stern, aft, glimmer—glow
Worm, wiggle, writhe, fizzle, frazzle, frown and flow
Gather, grip, gasp, ingratiate, growl, scowl, scuttle and sew
Huddle, hurdler, cuddle, curdle, crackle, cackle and crow
Tipsy, teetotaler, tricky, tacky, terabyte, in spite of the stow
Baggage, boggle, bigot, burden, blast of butter, battery blown

Excess verbiage, nominatives under intense scrutiny, collaborate in a circular procession, each participle eagerly awaiting the punctuations incorrect stressor given a home

Slanted in bias, burgeoned, beckoning, blossoming, stratosphere, diameter crossing points of axis unseen, over-plotted, pollutants of the year, curdling inwards like the ravaging bug, the insect, the slug, the tremors of the soul, catching kitschy curmudgeon fever, like the protestation of an alleviation in disarray, sorrow for the sparrow clipped of wing wrung clandestinely clean, clinging to, ovarian theories overtly consumed by endeavor’s angular shaped cocoon-like debris.

Abrasive. Codes are difficult to cipher when patterns seem to exist symbolically, being becomes the cogent key that is swiped away from beneath the bed or hidden in plain sight, as does the seizures seized from gaping stares of those human zombies forever hovering in the red—the clamor, of a clandestine affair amidst tryst—and this is too, often too conveniently placed, underneath the welcome mat, where instead of finding your grand idea, a key from which to swallow and flee, there lay superlatives for observation.  And that is what you do, observe, then observe some more, observe until you are found, once again, with both flat feet on the tile floor, frozen in space and in someone’s perverse covenant with time—here, where, if having been locked out, arrested straight, out of and into a state of alternate being, than perhaps, the concept of the access will purge it’s promise upon someone, some one who, in someway, defines the definition of regenerative decay, a speck, dot, pixelated subjugate, a daughter of celibacy, a candid ripple in the wavelength, a freak storm over nowhere, nowhere at all—giving vitality to the invisible, those personas who’re somewhat akin, to all the eager admonishing razed upon the soot stained cheeks of the underprivileged capable of only stock replies—the type given by those who’ve never had things turn their way, those that find themselves stuck, in a miring magnate of magnanimous muck, in the middle of a processing plant, a marsh, a wasteland of existence, a sinkhole belching a verbose bellowing buckled over and then upon the expanding waistline of a gluttonous nation of indebtedness and adiposity.

What follows is often an infringement of some sort.  Patents blatantly placed upon intellectual property— protean, vigor, voluminous vanishing points, hollow, like the thesis based, in part, on the bland redundancy of an ignorant smudge, too easily erased, too easily wiped away forever without a trace of it’s postulation—the very same reasons as to why it was ignored, overlooked in favor for, a brand-new pet rock for cousin Roy. 

Posture is granted. The seeds have been sown. Violent trestles toss about, in the ballasts of a broken fist, where balance becomes but another prop, to the tawdry supply, set up and staged by, a backstage broker who renders hell upon the peons he feels he feeds all too well. A blood feud begins with the pennies in the filthy fountain—fuel for the animalistic fellows furrowed in lines a-stream this cobbled cove—a furlough became a game, a torrid cruelty where only the miser is left unashamed.

“Ain’t misbehaving, if the conductor says ok”
 Is acceptable, so says the beggar’s son.

 “Ain’t misportraying if the backstory so old ‘tis’ like the story’s ain’t never been done’,”

and broken down, gladly dreaming of the wasteful sot, delivering the curb some hand-me-downs”. 

“Ain’t a crime to accepting what’s been thrown,” It’s just what it is, as is. And it Ain’t indecent to feast upon scraps, if our last meal is dated unknown—


Fatuous verse.  Infatuation can occur; in the same manner intoxication can render oneself unstable.  By the toxicity in the streams of essay, the words bleed terrific, like the dream fading as the currents blur away the pains we’ve since adjusted to their modes.

I am just another eye. Or so it appears and so it seems, in seam, I stitch together, the adages and false contrition’s never said.  I’m simply one who talks out loud, whether alone or simply one faceless grin amongst a healthy crowd. In another time, in a separate space, I like to think, that my verse alone would be understood and could make a difference in some other nation, in some other land.

 Upon the patchwork of this earthbound soul, smiles are that rarity unapologetic to the many left to launder in the cold—in the grand scheme of impression, the stitch that ties us through, is having the recognition we’re so owed, after all…after all…aren’t we due something better, than to simply be known alone, as the damned beggars in the cold?


Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Abstract Suspect


There’s a guttural feeling beneath the calumet
A grinding halt to the ritual
Smiles hasten into frowns
And I feel bad for the one that pushed the bell

There’s a howling suspicion in the wind
A fading superstition that lingers in
Laissez-faire or Bourgeoisie,
Accommodations of catastrophe
Serendipitous dilemmas and
Sanctions breaking down,
By the sharks of this town, inflicting…
Surface wounds and
Surfeit shells,
Discrepancies and songs,
Songs we’ve got to know, ills we’ve learned all too well

Syncopation, spin and spin
Whiskey, Rye, Tonic, Gin and Gin
Serengeti nights be told, of the hours spent in a Saharan cold—broken for feverish decals, labeled carelessly on the backs of rickshaws, spider-webs and dropouts from bartender schools that advertise in the back of free papers you find at late night taco shops or seedy, shady, drowsed out jazz clubs—

Never acknowledge those that deliver the news
Sometimes they’re the devil in the messenger’s shoes
And sometimes they’re simply the leftovers that the cat dragged out…that someone else has yet been buried in the correct position, currently vacant, way out in left field.
SIN
SKIN
SINking
In
Abstract
Suspect

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Blind Embers Of Motivation


(S)Categorically frenetic
     Suffocating on the brine
              Bloated by the expectations of lunacy
The moon, its vapors
Unveiling premonitions
Ravaging the waking hours
With the addictions set in dream

Clarity is boring,
Facetious knowledge thrusts forward
As if the audience is nothing but a mass of ignorance
Collected in awe of your deepest recollections

The truth of emeritus is the dagger of gold in search of silver
     Vanity, a distraction to unparalleled degree
              Ask and you’ll be known as he who is without
                       Stare in silence and the curiosity will devour                                       you from the inside out.
Striations aligned
Subluxation pared
We are there and here
We alone create our own definitions of fear

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Facsimiles of Fortuitousness


Supine aciculate,
Shedding predilections over sentient epicenters,

Strychnine serenade,
Ushering in a dawn of density before a decentralized acropolis

Relegating potentate,
Lauding the sanctimonious hymns of byzantine tomorrows

Morose and incontinent,
The Aeronaut bleeds septets of inquisition from deep within
  
Conjugations repositioned,
Transmigrating into delicate Hyperboles of distraction

A Toreador amidst an otherwise hyped-up insubordinate,
Emancipates every proclamation of thoroughfare ever spun

Seeking the Longview…
     In the center of a sandstorm,
              Is never easier done than said


Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Directives Born Deep In





Hip out, gait is locked
Stagger, stagger, throb
Throb, throb, stagger on

Tourniquets separated
Create apartheid tween
The numb and warm

…here flesh be tampered with
trod upon , with heels twisting, twisting
in turn, turning into, such a twisted halt
if where what was, only to at first regain balance,
they grind about still well after, after realizing it
is not the beach that they writhe upon…

The skin’s been known, to
Ever so slowly retract, explode,
As do the granulated bits expunged
From vase to sea…

Fine, fine fragments, found
Broken, templates blurred, then bound,
life lags, lingering long, across the tides and
through the ponds, where waves lament the flooding components of a time torn upon, spun, into a peril, unwound, unwrapped, by the crying wilderness that remains, untamed, to this day, a time untrained, to see beyond the passions of those emotions denying safe passage to and from,

With or without such directives that were to be, so directly implicated into what would be, a vision, THE vision,

and now, that vision is nothing more than a vision, one that has  destructed, distracted many more seamen far, far greater than thee, sailors with visions of their own, dreams, dreams that often rappel the journey’s leg up high, way beyond horizon’s sky, unto those lines, lines that coat the crags and corners of a soon to be, mountain-yet-to-be-scaled and flagged…and, and, and…it still climbs


Past the precipice one can’t peak
Through the tunnels sight can’t see
Within the quivering voice that cannot speak such languages purposely composed as being left intently incomplete as to where it’s words, are words made from sounds, sounds the tongue simply wont learn

And they swirl about,
Through each canal

Down the blockades path,
through the perimeters caged off
and bent.

Yet…. it’s all but noise

You cannot hear the voice
as it never truly says anything

Not until
This moment
Where the lock is picked
And the trellis falls
Leaving vines, vines, various and tall,

They are
Sprouting up
And shooting out
Where duets at dawn
Find the through and through, a down-ward arc, spiral in reverse, noticing the fortifications of a sun yet born, wherein fortifying all it’s every form

By, and with, its trademark limp
you are collected
along with your wavering will,

somewhat assertively, mind you,

Some days we make
Some days we are made
from model clay,
from collages painted
from a palette of images
you’ve been collecting
ever since you first departed the
weaving womb,

here the seamstress sews a carving breath,
ever birthing the unburied banalities
that somehow always freshen the scenes, the scent
that you
and you
alone
tend to

See…
A talisman
One To guide?
              If then, then I ask,
 to where?

Stop on over to D'Verse, where, like every Tuesday, Open Link Night takes over the poetic communities all over the world.  The doors open up at 3 pm, with the first poems being served up shortly after.  Every week is an adventure and a revelation, make sure you stop by and take all the poetry in.  See you there.