Maniacal Escape: Poems

Sep 2020 · 54

Mind mine

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

Mind mine

Gemstone vibrancy.
See the hole
It's deep
And funny
And shiny
Enticing
Black.

The

Sep 2020 · 51

Foggy view

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

Foggy view

Feeling pretty low
Happy with the state of things.
Some say.
Hardly though.
Things are not ideal.

Sep 2020 · 53

Corner shop christmas tree

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

Corner shop christmas tree

Bags of beer
Plastic tinsel
Bread and milk
Gifts for all
Lottery ticket
Starry escape

Sep 2020 · 102

Self.

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

Self.

I stare at myself in the mirror.
It's stillness and silence mocking.
I smile and it smirks.
Such violent silence as we stare at each other.
Staring at pure psychosis, ripping and tearing at our reflection.
The sickening, purifying, hatred.
Claws at the glass.
The eyes never move, the stare is never broken, for he knows that I am him and he is me, and we are the mirror.

#reflection #mirror #self

Sep 2020 · 52

floaty fun

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

floaty fun

Statuette touch in a windless dream.
floating on whispers to a silken shore.
clouds fly by and so do I,
time is abstract as dreams.

Sep 2020 · 63

Last orders.

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

Last orders.

As the walls turn to glitter
And the sound becomes lights.
It's time I headed home.

Sep 2020 · 62

Endless sprint

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

Endless sprint

Fast as your feet can carry
Careening off through time
Mountains are hills and hills are fields
And I am running.

Sep 2020 · 57

Tomorrow

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

Tomorrow

Running through these brisk fields, swimming with reeds of happiness.
Not a care in the world for the fields that lie beyond.

Sep 2020 · 58

Ornamental junk.

Maniacal Escape Sep 2020

Ornamental junk.

Snow globe cracks,
Perfect little life, hemorrhages
Glitter shimmer. Congealed clot.
Desolation in a quiet bubble.
Left behind.

Aug 2020 · 54

Garroted globe.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Garroted globe.

Colour on canvas with the Crimson crayon.
Pure art, the world is stained red.
Frame it. Murderous masterpiece.

Aug 2020 · 51

Cosy living room

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Cosy living room

Slip into
Our hopeless lives
It's true
The hearth is warm
In our silly lies.

Aug 2020 · 34

Omnipotent obstacles

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Omnipotent obstacles

Seek shadows,
Break the voices.
Seeing crazy lies,
Holding nothingness.

Aug 2020 · 32

Strange tectonic movements

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Strange tectonic movements

Cry hard when the raindrops shine
The shy marble kiss when the world crashes down.
Quarry of questions.
Granite truth.
Rivers flow in no direction.

Aug 2020 · 72

Eyes wide shut

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Eyes wide shut

So many eyes pass by
They all look but never see.
I ponder to myself
with my eyes closed.

Aug 2020 · 40

Pool noodle

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Pool noodle

Here I am
Drowning in this familiar dirt puddle.
That stretches for miles.
The rubber ring bobs by
Leaving it's crystal temptation trail
It's life saving trail.
And so I grab it
And float
For a while longer.

Aug 2020 · 61

Blurred vision

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Blurred vision

Hard nails. Soft socks.
Feet try hard to feel soft.
Smiles in leather. Chamois shine.
Wind dancing through silken robes.
Murderer prancing in in the wind.
Smash the glass. Break the screen.
The world turns from lava to rock.

Aug 2020 · 50

Eyeball obsession

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Eyeball obsession

Suffering upon the suffering
Injury to avenge the injured
Killing to keep up the killing
The tune of death continues to play.

Aug 2020 · 49

Crimson cuddles

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Crimson cuddles

Leaking wrists
Final twists
Weak knees
Hugs please.

Aug 2020 · 37

Sour makes sweet

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Sour makes sweet

Happy hands slapping a sad cheek
Puffy red, embarrassed injury.
Broken bruised.
Blueberry muffin.

Aug 2020 · 38

Meat processing

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Meat processing

Altar
Sacrifice
Prayer and goats.
Abattoir
Slaughter house
Sausages and burgers.

Aug 2020 · 55

Combustable conundrums

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Combustable conundrums

Deceived by tar
Restless in wax.
I'm solidified.
Used, stained and charred.
Life burns it's flame ever near.
Relentlessly.
Inevitably in wax or suffer exposed inferno.
What kind of a choice is that?
For a tissue man?

Aug 2020 · 41

Home is where the heart dies.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Home is where the heart dies.

Sing a lullaby of death.
Whilst you ****** me in cold blood.
Hold me whilst my life ebbs away
Homely bones join the castle made of skulls.

#mind #depression #suicide

Aug 2020 · 66

Artisanal.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Artisanal.

Golden shoes walk a silver path.
Jeweler looks on through enviable emeralds.
Dull hum of green, backstage shine.
Jade blocks.
Then to the sapphire lake. Clattering, rolling over each other. Chance to shimmer lost in waves of chips and tarnish.
The jeweler is happy with his work, and so shall charge double.

Aug 2020 · 37

Speaking in circles

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Speaking in circles

The more I want to say,
The less you want to hear,
The more I overthink.

Aug 2020 · 40

Storms ahead

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Storms ahead

Sparks, giddy buzz
Smoke goes in, dry lips.
Eyes roll back.
Cloudy limbs.

Aug 2020 · 30

Streets seasoned secretly with spice

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Streets seasoned secretly with spice

Gander about rubber duck.
You lost your head?
Bubble brain goes pop.
Popcorn poppeddy plop.
Like a Stone.
Is anyone alive in there?
Stick it in the green bin.
At least its biodegradable I guess.

Aug 2020 · 39

Watch out.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Watch out.

Predatory lizard eyes.
Sun goes down,
Owl sees all.

Aug 2020 · 64

Inquisitive child, silly emlightened child.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Inquisitive child, silly emlightened child.

Stars burning up.
Where is heaven?
Where will I go?
When maggots eat my eyes?
You told me this. Do you remember you told me this?
You shouldn't question hallowed grounds!
Look what you've lost.
Hopeless, wondering through unlit halls searching for truth in plain hiding.
What will you do?
Now sense and reason has replaced fantasy so comforting?

Aug 2020 · 69

Bankrupt existance

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Bankrupt existance

Pray, the saints go wild.
Sin and the gods smile wide.

Aug 2020 · 55

Saint sickle give us a tickle

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Saint sickle give us a tickle

Our lives are far from home.
You seek truth inside the tomes.
Our lives are leaking outward.
I'm stuck here with your anemia.
I pray to the altar of the blade God.

Aug 2020 · 41

'open wide' said the machine to the machine.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

'open wide' said the machine to the machine.

Pennies clatter, happy chant.
Change hangs heavy, metal *****.
Such a rich thrill.
Copper courage. Bronze boldness.
But what did you loose?
With your pants down your ankles and pennies strewn across the floor?

Aug 2020 · 45

Revenant

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Revenant

Deathbed ditties
'Shame on you all', etc
'Ooo she's coming',
let's light a candle,
And play a silly board game.

Aug 2020 · 33

Secret serotonin stash

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Secret serotonin stash

Heavy delta.
This is the real reality.
Crystal perception
through diamond eyes.
Feel the earth in your veins.
Arteries pump with sound
So clear
So pure.
Heaven trapped in dust.
Released through me.

Aug 2020 · 39

Perspicuous.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Perspicuous.

Reservoir,
Abattoir,
Miracle of life.

Aug 2020 · 40

Humpty dumpty had a great fall.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Humpty dumpty had a great fall.

Coming to.
Senses blurred and hurting,
Vision swirls to find colour in black.
Ears hear too much,
Can't make sense of it all.
Face is sticky and warm.
Fingers trace it's source
White-hot pain turns black vision grey.
Breath is hard to catch.
Grey to white to Blue
To sounds.
Surrounded by chatter and noise.
'don't move sir, the ambulance is on its way'

Aug 2020 · 28

Seconds, minutes, hours, nothing.

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Seconds, minutes, hours, nothing.

Insidious entity.
A vicarious ride.
Distance between stars,
Astrological blindness.
Yet so visible to all who see.
Tick tock, tick tock
Times up.

Aug 2020 · 37

Silly string

Maniacal Escape Aug 2020

Silly string

The string that frays
has been well tied.
Knots and pulleys
Up down all around.
Faithfully carrying out its duties.
and ultimately replaceable.