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561 · Mar 2017
Spray Painted T Rex Teeth
Onoma Mar 2017
Childless park swings pushed by

momma & pappa air,

spray painted t rex teeth

on higher high-rises, blight force glyphs.

Huckleberry over my

persimmon (a bit beyond my abilities)...

to delete prey from jaws, though a

smooth dancer in shape-shifting

crowds, electric **** crow, tinted eyes.

A day in the life...clammy handfuls of

posies, unwrinkling dead presidents.

Sweeping odds in charnel stacks,

knot-haired incense t ***** by rush hour

trains, wolf that warped whiff...
559 · Feb 2016
Evening Nigh-tide
Onoma Feb 2016
...At this evening nigh-tide, reptilian
brain bites back instinctively.
I am forgiven in all Houses...all postulations
bloat these blue veins.
Daguerreotype pictures cake their ashen
backdrop, that assures the comely smile
of cosmic forbearance.
As if these lips would dematerialize in search
of utterance.
Not for the entrained speakeasy of spotlit
here and now...but the energetic pulse tugged
at both ends of tongue.
The final straw struck back, to ingratiate the
greatest of pilgrimages.
559 · Jul 2016
Beautiful Impasses
Onoma Jul 2016
The wakefulness of Light
is utter, greater and greater
luminosities...sight
parting ways with sight,
to truly see.
Beautiful impasses...seeing
through now, now, and now.
Handing sleep to a body
with less frequency...
a stain of shadows upon
something, nothing--
seeing
itself as if for the first time.
557 · Dec 2015
Light of the World
Onoma Dec 2015
You who would
give the world
back to itself...
came into it today.
You've entered
yet again, where
entry was barred...
your starry rising
trembles in a host
of eyes.
552 · Oct 2013
Head, Overhead Display
Onoma Oct 2013
In the confidence of night...
stars...stars...STARS--
spectacularly BOLD!
Visions...vicarious ones--
teeming with lit spaces
that occupy minds...
stars...stars...STARS!
A dynamic...where from...
we've helped ourselves
to ourselves unawares...
stars...stars...STARS--
spectacularly BOLD!!!
551 · Apr 2016
Cherry Blossom
Onoma Apr 2016
A stimulated atrophy...
wearing winter's
fleshy wistfulness.
Enchantress of
livid reflections.
Scent secreted away
by a breeze of no
origin.
551 · Mar 2018
Late Sight
Onoma Mar 2018
gentled away where
sound's
called  forth from a
heap of black stones.
taste bittered to sweetness
in un-name.
mouthing.
late sight blasted red,
in the passion of its
rose.
it cannot be, yet is--
ash peppered finely
as space unto a toppling
sky.
all in all hail, gone to gone--
forever's betrothal cycle.
holding peace.
550 · Oct 2013
Advanced Beings We
Onoma Oct 2013
Ruth...for these appendages, it's centuries survive me, this
here in now...mummified.
From head to toe, pulling foot in front foot funnier all of the time.
A cartoonish yaw supposes balance, curates art's gravity.
Based loosely, tightly on everything--this ground I'm to be found
on, this body I'm to be found in, is tinged.
I send you footage, grainy touchstones to dispose of...they
quantify, there's no place to put them.
Millenary eyes are not to be trusted, every time they're revisited
a quantum leap transpires.
Advanced beings we...mingling, letting **** fly barely above ground--
but we're from up...there, out there.
550 · Mar 2017
Elevator Exorcism
Onoma Mar 2017
Sine wave knuckles working the

cab interior of an elevator, thunderous

blows  story-ing up, down.

Cramming all those voices in a voice box,

a moral imperative to release them.

Exorcising a city riding a dungeonesque

shaft, all those broken by bread, crawl

my lungs as if trying to pry open a chasm.

No feet to my name, animal space for an angel's

consideration.

Thoughts like bypassed gut-checks of rats

crossing a third rail, vivid as Buddhist visualization...

modicum of composure, the elevator doors open.

People press in, as if finalizing the final frontier.
549 · Jun 2019
Exalted And Exalting
Onoma Jun 2019
as Rumi after

meeting Shams--

plunged in

The Ocean.

proffered pearls...

whirling dervish.

exalted and exalting~
548 · Feb 2019
Self-Combusted Angel
Onoma Feb 2019
an entire

snowstorm's

the ashes of

a self-combusted

angel.

a single pride-swell

too close to

Luciferian aspiration.
548 · Nov 2018
Blind Date
Onoma Nov 2018
the bare black

trees will watch...

as i lift your chin

to the white sky.

cocked back in the danger

of animal lust.

i'll listen to snowflakes

fragment against your

rapidly batting eyelashes.

as i run my open mouth

on the sides of your neck,

introducing my teeth

when you least expect it--

and want it most.
*To my Queen, whose eyes are only fit to gaze unto that starkly white sky.
Onoma Oct 2016
Isn't it strange
how seasons
show us we
have outer
responses
to inner ones.
The more bare
the landscape
becomes... the
more we layer.
The more lush
the landscape
becomes, the
more we shed
layers.
It's as if we live
in reverse...just
to mend the
schism of mind
and body.
547 · Nov 2016
Beautiful Refusal
Onoma Nov 2016
A pearl
is the world's
ghost...refusing
to come out of
it's shell.
547 · Mar 2016
Regeneration of Eyes
Onoma Mar 2016
Beheaded at the
bottom of the Ocean...
bobbing head.
Regeneration of eyes...
seeing through every
drop...the sun's unction.
547 · Jul 2016
Hide and Seek
Onoma Jul 2016
You pick a
place and
hide, thinking
the world
seeks you.
The inside
cannot hide
from the outside.
The outside
cannot seek the
inside...the game
is wide open.
547 · Sep 2015
Fire is Long
Onoma Sep 2015
The fire is long, the flame is short...
thankfully, love at its loveliest is not
proportionate.
The doings of this earth start to speak
freely the more you sit with them...
doings whose burdened air ignites.
The fire is long,
the flame is short.
547 · Jun 2014
Light Face-first
Onoma Jun 2014
An avalanche on the sun...
white light face-first...
Union enters a beginning
and end, Union exits a
beginning and end.
Radiance passing out
radiantly...coming to
radiantly, at every mortal
moment.
547 · Dec 2016
Married Under a Wave
Onoma Dec 2016
Essence is the
single grain of
salt and sand
married under
a wave.
546 · Jun 2015
Memorable Silences
Onoma Jun 2015
Being fitted by memorable

silences...disrobed by

memorable silences... my Tailor

and I, meet eyes in the mirror.
546 · Apr 2016
Centerpiece
Onoma Apr 2016
A rose screamed ******
******...began smoking
black upon the white ceiling.
The billowy scrawl of a
dispassionate unfoldment...
as its ****** vase soaked
the thorns of last defense.
Freed up in aromatic spasms,
by emotions that felt for
themselves till flat.
There, darkly blessed by
a ****** of shadow and
a dint of light...The Beloved
secured a centerpiece.
544 · Nov 2018
Blue in the Face
Onoma Nov 2018
I'm at a

loss for so

many things...

chiefly

words.

yet here they

are, blue in

the face.

a flailing

troubadour,

birds flocking

deafly...

thru half the

air's soul.
543 · Feb 2015
Negative Space
Onoma Feb 2015
This colorful
residency
will cave in
despite me...
negative space
will be my
critique.
543 · Oct 2016
Upending Resonance
Onoma Oct 2016
Something keeps
upending Resonance...
The Perfect Bride,
tossing Her bouquet
at Her Perfect Bridesmaids.
542 · Oct 2015
Doves Downed White
Onoma Oct 2015
Melting this
chest as a burning
polaroid...
those serpents
that hiss, those
doves downed
white.
541 · Dec 2014
Advancing Circle
Onoma Dec 2014
As December gives
herself to
the advancing circle...
may the shape
of her final thought
be centered in peace...
on this our Mother Earth.
Onoma Nov 2023
3 inches of poppies are

forecast to slide

down a single-pointed

emerald called a city.

a snowy red where the

cast alchemizes a sun

to break into winding

chills of kernel.
540 · Feb 2017
Mockup City
Onoma Feb 2017
Weekend, shorn spoof head-to-toeing,
Sunday sobered...I saw
a squirrel sleep for the first time,
from a second floor, cozying
between pronged boughs.
Tiff-tough puff of a tail, spot-spread
by a breeze.
A split vibrational decision,
raring a decided tree--in this
cellular mockup city, NY.
539 · Oct 2014
Vortical Tumble
Onoma Oct 2014
Isn't it fun excising polarities
just to watch them wiggle back
toward one another?
Their vortical tumble intellectually
hybridized so a "school of thought"
can advertise perverse stimulation.
Imagine if Yin were told when to
kiss Yang, and how deeply...
with no Unifying eye contact to
consummate their vision.
Thought...Now...is dead...not God--
as the parts of their Sum have been
called Home in regard to misidentification.
539 · Oct 2015
Golden Leaves
Onoma Oct 2015
Now come the golden
leaves, widely blessed by the
Narrow Way...ground enough,
sky enough...for their
delicate touch.
538 · Jun 2015
Unidentified Greenness
Onoma Jun 2015
The leaves not knowing
they are green,
are free of greenness...
nor do they know
they are not the wind
that dances them...
so they remain  more than
greenness, and more
than wind.
538 · Jan 2016
Butterfly Shadow
Onoma Jan 2016
As this flame
meditates upon
self-erasure...
the rounded lip
of its glass enclosure
creates a teetering
butterfly shadow...
against the wall.
538 · Oct 2015
Dandelion-headed
Onoma Oct 2015
Dandelion-headed
angels, whose minds
are the equipose
of dawn-dusk.
Eyes more open
than open, eyes
more closed than
closed.
537 · Feb 2020
Meetup at Bounty
Onoma Feb 2020
these poised and

neverending hands

pruning the take away.

stalwart seasons refreshed

by definable lines.

meetup at bounty.
535 · Jan 2017
Do Not Doubt
Onoma Jan 2017
Window beaded, raindrops gnashing silvery
white, at core--grey sky in each, each to each
a composite of it.
Room....an abstract memory scheme, dull blocks of
color hanging in there.
Afternoon in the middle of itself, January in the
beginning of itself.
Formative limbo offering both its cheeks, the world
entire taking it up on its offer.
Head bows ever slowly, a religion of one in the making.
Do not doubt there are digestive points strewn throughout
days--whereupon one embodies the throes of all creation.
Thoughts...come and go with a reflective quality whose
tonalities divide and conquer what must be static...for change.
534 · Jun 2014
Zen Calligraphic Circle
Onoma Jun 2014
Every droplet is center to
its ripple.
Similarly...a calligraphic circle
responds symmetrically/unsymmetrically,
as per its calligrapher.
533 · Apr 2019
Ant-farm
Onoma Apr 2019
everything perceived,

eyes the narrowing

needle.

refinement of perception

shoulders G*ds in

the making.

your ant farm is

an alien's view of

your commute.

offering up one more

acute mirror than

another.

till the object of perception

has nowhere to store

its riches...

and the will of detail's

bequeathed to neither

angel or devil.
Onoma Jan 2015
The Dream tangles
and untangles strands
of light...
to Waken fuller frames
of Once upon a time...
as the panoramic view
crowns
itself...
Once smiles wide.
530 · Aug 2017
Thunderless Lightning
Onoma Aug 2017
all night there was

thunderless lightning,

cracked marble clouds.

fissured altars tracing

the flames of everlasting

candles.

as eyes flickered behind

closed lids.
527 · Sep 2019
Benares
Onoma Sep 2019
in Benares

the bells ring

in a way bells

can't contain

themselves while

reverberating.

flowers heaped

beyond color but

never more bright.

as pyres forgive

the host with flames,

and yogis bathe in ash

along the Ganga.
527 · Oct 2018
Drowning the Atlantic
Onoma Oct 2018
that something...

& the Ocean.

that something...

&  the Ocean.

that something~

& the Ocean.

a woman's eyes...

Atlantic.

thousand as a

favored poetic figure...

of times to fall.

for all.

till no more can be

beared.
527 · May 2021
Grafting Finales
Onoma May 2021
as dandelion spores are

hysterically grafting finales

in over-bright air....

a snowflake falls at the

center of the galaxy.

that will never melt.
525 · Feb 2015
Colonnade of Persons
Onoma Feb 2015
The pallid face
magnetizes its welter...
as the colonnade
strums the space
between the person
taken.
Colonnade of persons...
eidolon's waft of
necessitated phenomena.
525 · Jun 2019
Ardhanarishvara
Onoma Jun 2019
epically long threads

are spun--

to clothe

the body of

Ardhanarishvara.
*Ardhanarishvara is the unified form of Shiva and Shakti.
525 · Mar 2017
Carved
Onoma Mar 2017
The hollows of cheeks

wrung with shadows,

indrawn for the honesty

of betrayal.

Moist eyes slurp their skull

to spermy glints.

Down to the gospel of flesh

and bone, they read silently

to one another:

everything is one...and you

are alone.
524 · Apr 2015
I of Scrimmaging
Onoma Apr 2015
Live under these lights tour de force--
an atomic roar had you at: I.
I of scrimmaging ghosts, the obsessive
vouchsafe of the material world.
Coasting torn landscapes, places of wedge
and sleep...with a flood of eyes open.
Upstanding I, ****** in memorabilia--
with thought's filament flickering...
what's seen is heavied as to be believed.
(((I))) has repeated on itself to populate our
marvel...we're everywhere.
524 · Aug 2016
Confer Openness
Onoma Aug 2016
If Love is openness...
that which gives
Love, receives it in the
same breath.
In that same breath
Love can claim what
gave and received, to
confer openness upon
that which remains...
and that which does not.
523 · Aug 2017
Paraphrases
Onoma Aug 2017
loneliness
paraphrases
ultimate
freedom,
only
when
it
considers
i­tself.
523 · May 2018
Vanishing Point
Onoma May 2018
the goddess opens

her arms...

a Mother's

many givings.

drafting handfuls.

here, here, here--

(nadis)

orthogonal lines.

three dimensional

mainlines to mercy.

with

love deeper than a

vanishing point.
523 · Jul 2022
A Round Completed
Onoma Jul 2022
a circle is now drawn,

a golden-white

outline of nearnesses.

a round completed at

every turn, emissarial

whispers of angelic phylums

catching fire.

in skies too acoustical for any

church.
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