Kalliope: Favorites

I spoke your language
With you,
I tried,
But meaning was lost
Meaning was everything
And yet became nothing
I can't speak
Your language
Anymore
It's a choice
You made
Long ago
By fracturing
My abilities
To understand
You

#relationships #broken #words #choices #promises

Jul 29 Kalliope

[ Beware, he kisses ]

Jul 29 Kalliope

Zywa

[ Beware, he kisses ]

Beware, he kisses

beside my cheek nowadays --

as if I am air.

Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels), and "Diary 1966-1967" (2009) - July 2ND, 1967 in Bologna

Collection "Trench Walking"

#kiss #distance #detachment #relationship

Jul 29 Kalliope

[ Am I in hell now ]

Jul 29 Kalliope

Zywa

[ Am I in hell now ]

Am I in hell now?

I don't think it is heaven! --

There is no one here!

Play "Peer Gynt" (1867, Henrik Ibsen), fifth act, "Nattscene" ("Night scene") - The dying Peer Gynt looks back on his life

Collection "VacantVoid"

#heaven #hell #dying

Jul 29 Kalliope

[ God remains unseen ]

Jul 29 Kalliope

Zywa

[ God remains unseen ]

God remains unseen,

He disguises himself to --

do the things He does.

Story "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" ("Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream" / "The Dream of Poliphilus", 1499, Francesco Colonna), first book, chapter 10 - About queen/goddess Telosia

Collection "Unseen"

#god #religion

Jul 29 Kalliope

[ Some people live on ]

Jul 29 Kalliope

Zywa

[ Some people live on ]

Some people live on

in a book, thanks to bottles --

of eternal ink.

Science fiction novel "Grimus" (1975, Salman Rushdie - A Simurg(h) ['Thirty birds'] is a Persian legendary creature, an omniscient bird, symbol for someone's world of thought) -
Characters can live for many generations -
The eternity potion is sun-yellow

Collection "Low gear"

#eternallife #characters #fiction

Jul 29 Kalliope

[ The speaker pauses ]

Jul 29 Kalliope

Zywa

[ The speaker pauses ]

The speaker pauses,

he is impatient, but can --

force himself to wait.

Novel "Frankissstein: a love story" (2019, Jeanette Winterson), The mind is the matrix

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 10s"

#impatience #will

Jul 29 Kalliope

[ We are animals ]

Jul 29 Kalliope

Zywa

[ We are animals ]

We are animals,

disguised by something artful --

as if we were more.

Novel "Frankissstein: a love story" (2019, Jeanette Winterson), There never was a wilder story (1818)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 10s"

#mankind #humanity

Jul 29 Kalliope

just the facts

Jul 29 Kalliope

Mike Hauser

just the facts

if it sputters, spits
seems to slip
might as well
get used to it
over easy
easy as
i've learned from
experience

hard to find
change your mind
in and out
most of the time
it's a shame
if not a crime
as it all
comes to light

moving fast
built to last
please feel free
to be my guest
innies, outies
this and that
just the facts ma'am
just the facts