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American . / . / "There is nothing else" / - Alan Moore / .
Here I sit, and I wait, waiting backwards, clawing at the trail of seconds, the course of which remains steady, despite my best efforts. The last moment of starlight is a welcoming peace. Under impending interruption, they flicker so softly. They will fade soon, and the clouds will be the first to awaken, From void in the night sky to the perspiration of a planet. I may watch, or ignore. I haven't decided. But watching is a distraction all on its own, for when I watch, I'm not experiencing and only photographs are retained In the very brief moment when silence explodes a wave of new light will emerge from yesterday. And when the night has set, the world can begin anew.
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 5:05 PM UTC
Tomorrow
Oh, but for the words I cannot tell you, I would have your heart. Maligned against the shadow of my conscience, truths too frail to echo freely reflect, carrying bursts of fantasies that tug against the structure of my soul. If I could, for a fraction of an instant, take you into those ideas; if you could sense just a drop of the emotion that paints my dreams and etches the critical beauty of your face into my eyes, involuntarily... If I could only overwhelm you the way you do me... But I have nothing but words to offer, and words decay faster than flowers I could return to you your dignity, if you would return me my attention. If only anything else were worth focusing on...
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Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 5:06 PM UTC
Stop Me
Stop reading, I tell you; there is no resolution coming. Only laments and curiosities, incursions into the soulless depths of mesonoxian thunder, maybe a note on the desirability of warm socks, but no satisfaction. Don't expect a mournful awakening, nor deliberate (or otherwise) profundity. -disregarding the note on warm socks, of course- I have given you warning, and if you continue, the burden of exploration falls on you, for consideration is the ferry to insight, of which this text is built strictly without. The boatman may ask that you pay with your wisdom and refuse those that have no treasures to offer. Would that not be the most desirable life? Where we live to learn and when we have, the boatman ferries us into the undying waters? And those refused must wander and wonder why they were excluded, where wisdom is birthed, realizing that they are exactly as intelligent as they work to become, to which the boatman might say, "Welcome aboard. Tell me more." Allegorically speaking, this notion is nonsense. Metaphorically speaking, completely absurd. Practically, it's practically insane, though actively, it is inanely preferred. Alternative to apathy and pageantry, wherein the boatman has empathy for those without wealth. There is no true truth, only real observation, so stop trusting my judgment and go create it yourself
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 4:18 PM UTC
Do Not Read This
And the last and the worst of the problems grew slowly like primitive oceans that the valleys accrue, and the keyboard and bristles spun webs in the corners while the masterful details to darkness withdrew. The seconds would echo if a pause were addressed and dissolve all the clarity that I thought that I knew; encumbered, unwilled, like the treasures of sadness in the soul that sheds softly while collecting dew. And then there was quiet, while the creatures were barking, and disdain and the darkness receded in hue. For a moment, awoken, while the thoughts were subdued But exactly when spoken, uncertainty renewed
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 4:40 PM UTC
While the Creatures were Barking
There are just words that resonate, meaningfully, -as if they have meaning- from the echo within my skull to the entrance within my soul. And to you who infers, who proclaims the righteous totality and splendor of connotation under the guise of one's own God, within and without, I thank you for your consideration, for finding your words in mine. For when 'you' and 'I' are swapped, when truth is but a sound and notions dissolve into the echoes of life, this will be but a piece of paper, marked up crudely from clandestine forethought into a portrait of emotions, unvisible. Should I share my tears onto this page it could have no more significance than the weakest tear in the fabric as it, too, devolves into brusque indifference. When the thoughts have decayed and I find myself a stranger to this text, I will know its meaning extinct but for its interpretations
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 5:54 PM UTC
Within and Without
Imagine then, imagining -the pigeon in the prism prison- driven by unfathomed space to creation's end by feckless wings The scope of scape, identified, holds measure of your lucid mind Beyond world's end, the conquests swell to amplify the conscious realm The limits shatter outwardly... Now exercise the feckless wings exploring vastness to be understood, realizing the next level of prism prison
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Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 8:01 PM UTC
Imagine then, Imagining
To a manner unpracticed I thoughtfully drift, preparing the actions in which such hope might exist. And though hopelessly broken, I cannot refrain an intent that has woken: a refrain of disdain. These shames be postponed while the outcomes could be, lest the speaker alone should condone prophecy. Other factors removed, in truth I'd concede; for the evidence proves that I cannot succeed! But in spite of the actor, hope must persist though external factors and the chances of risk. -Elicit reaction by means that are blind- so that a manner unpracticed becomes a manner defined
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Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 7:59 PM UTC
For Now, For the Future
A timely observation; complacently inscribed, finding truth in aberration and restitution in denial. So long conversely spoken, unmentioned but believed: to live without intention and die conventionally. With wide consideration, the bearer must unload a prideful commendation: what glory in control! Internally awoken, vehemently believed: to live without conventions and die intentionally
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Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 7:56 PM UTC
Generalizations Don't Work
I'd love to defer conscious thought for a while and exist only simply, independent of mind. It beckons a question of lucidity by species, to which I'd suppose that none truly are, despite wholly hoping to release all control that I claim to not have and have not, not by choice. If only I could ignore structured design I wish I could design a Structure without structure that runs and saunters like lovers on a warm summer evening hypnotized by the other and existing only simply, woven in the other's arms
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Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 7:54 PM UTC
A Terrible, Terrible Poem
Hello, Nightmare. It seems our paths are linked, for a time, and I shall endure your company so long as you endure mine. But withhold your persuasion, to pervade my conscious mind lest my fears suffer inflation and your motives shall unwind. Keep your nature hidden, or subtle at the most. To adherence you are bidden, or seek you a new host. I'll settle for the ******* of a parasitic ghost for I am short of comrades and parsimony lost
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Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 7:47 PM UTC
Hello, Nightmare