57 posts tagged “poetry”

Only I can't find its hiding place. So I'll throw it out to the digerati. Maybe it will come back with a bit more.

Melancholy mist
Flies lake surface
Icarian molecules
Rising to rising
Sun
Burnt feathers
Leave no body
To fall

Stolen from Jenny.

The soursops
A squiggle along the beach
Fish flash in the oranging bay
From the mount
We take in such beauty
But from your brusque tone
I come to know
There is no atonement
And this is the last sunset
Together

The emergent self
Is chatty
Expressing the everything and nothing
That enters its little head
It has not yet come into possession
Of the phobic mind
Which leaves the tongue immobile
As the room fills
With strangeness.

Word as image
Image as ink
Soaked down to the pulp
Roaring its silence

Just a note

Scraps of thought
Scattered about
Whisper
In the morning breezing
The soft spoken greeting
Wakes me
From a faint sleep
I rise
Collecting in hand
These pieces of my soul
Eye thumbs them over
Determining most
For the bin
Placing one, perhaps two
Back down
To continue
Breathing in the air

This week's challenge: skyscraper, convulsion, systematic, venerable, feign

With a roar
Rock attempts to feign
Rebellion
But the Skyscraper
Reaches hand down
Stopping heart
Mid convulsion
A systematic cessation of blood
In the venerable veins of earth
And Mother cooled
Sleeps again

Woodland Creatures

Words
Hidden
Would express me
If only
They fell into the trap
But when I open the jaw
Tongue tip trips
And they slip
Back into the forest
Nymphs
Winking in triumph.

...I thought since I hadn't written in a good while I would put up the bit of rambling I wrote earlier today. It feels to me like the part of something larger though I don't know what that larger is; not sure I have anything with what I do have, if that makes any sense. Doesn't even an inkling of a title. So here it is, simply A Fragment:

Were you there
In the after?
I looked
Through the dun sea
That circled me
Reaching
To touch you
Feeling only
A thousand stings of silica
Sent by an angry mother
I opened
My mouth to call
Only to eat that earth
So
Alone
I stumbled
Over ground so parched
It cracked
Then bled, the dead
Piles of belted bone
Wrapped in bleached leather
Sanctified by sand
Screaming back at the world

Days I trekked
Living off what I found
The water of sorrow
The meat of despair
Nights I slept
Shivering in the pitch
The whirl of the wind
Pulsing your name in my ear
Creeping down into the nightmares
That filled my slumber

Time passed
A blurred river
Moving so fierce
It retarded
Then
Stopped
I thought
Perhaps I should too
Laying myself down
With the blessed
But your moon flashed
An arch of fire
From cell to cell
Peering down my weakness
My wishing it to end
Calling me to arms
Forcing me to shoulder my past
And move on
And on
And on
Not sure of success
Simply certain
I must continue
Until Eternity
Stretches me thin
Blending my breath
In with the gale
That rings it