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246 · Nov 2019
Cases of Curiosity
Onoma Nov 2019
hands thrown up in

an affirming hallelujah--

hundredth devil syndrome

of idle no time.

a single syncopating harp string--

hoplessly blurring a romantic's

note.

cases of curiosity, the casualties

of morbid fascination on

display.

poetic admission fee: no one

shows if no one sees.
246 · Mar 2018
Hellbent Gods and Godesses
Onoma Mar 2018
athwart is the resolve of combatants...
I Am and Am not.
untold purification rests at both sides.
unresponsive leverages grow
the Circle.
were it not for the staying power of me--
these brackets of vision would
not quake as they are set.
at half staff, neither country nor body...
invoking athwart.
consanguinity that is the meaning
of poetry's verbose transfusion.
heir, heiress, universe--a haunting
inheritance Whole.
I Am a sprightly idiot found out amid
the galactic cauldron.
hellbent gods and goddesses plucking
stars from my hair.
doctoring my itch.
245 · Jan 2019
My Lady
Onoma Jan 2019
my lady,

wherever you

find yourself.

i can't  help

but notice

how you keep

that deep, dark

secret.

on that immaculate

cuff.

what's up?
245 · Oct 2014
Never-before-seen
Onoma Oct 2014
This never-before-seen
footage of the
human race...
is moving the
Heart of the
universe.
244 · Nov 2019
Ace of Spades
Onoma Nov 2019
Lucky Luciano's lazy eye

in the sky--

daring his city to double cross

him.

sure ******* thing--which rat

******* you got?

spit the odds like a kick to the

teeth, think like a kick to the

head.

or lay there with a bloodied

ace of spades in your

hand like Joe Masseria.

the fix is in.
244 · Feb 2019
Old New York
Onoma Feb 2019
a cop forgot to zip up

a body bag.

by the time he smelled his

coffee, a family of rats slipped in.

he then remembered to give the

body bag a quick zip.

a torrential downpour ensued.

when the rain began tapering off,

he observed movement in the

body bag.

thinking signs of life--though rats

were just trying to escape.
244 · Sep 2014
Love and Leave
Onoma Sep 2014
Change does not plead for itself...
change seems to live in the heart,
to core it out.
Till you can love and leave everything
you see.
244 · Jun 2021
With a Glop of Grey
Onoma Jun 2021
it's June###

(if you lie awake,

trying to pronounce June,

in NYC).

****-whacked by flies.

a handball court taking

pains to paint both wall to ball--

black and white.

halved in cold heat on impact.

with a glop of grey.

sparing players with a stroke.

as the backs of blue buses melt

and bumble, into a wealth of streets.

sanitation blowing those types of kisses.

with wheels going round and round,

de-ranged with reup and rot.
243 · May 2018
About 0 Results
Onoma May 2018
try different keywords,

or remove search filters.

shoes left at a door.

Google's always a *****--

as you enter/exit at light

speed.

with no intellectual

property.
243 · Apr 2019
Mirror Wars
Onoma Apr 2019
we ought to call

perception: mirror wars.

how one comes to reflect

on something, with incalculable

prior reflections--and vice versa.

a red apple turnt purple.

which's why the oft asked question:

where are you coming from with

this?

crops up, alienates and stumps

conversation the world over.
242 · Feb 2019
Between Two Beings
Onoma Feb 2019
the entire

phenomenal world

comes together

between two beings

unbound by love.

worshiping one another's

making.

moment growing out

of moment...where

nothing more be needed in

this world or the next.

when no difference is known.
242 · Apr 2022
Green Geisha
Onoma Apr 2022
what is it to watch

a single green leaf

become a Geisha...

reflecting the sunlit

transparency of another

leaf?

as if it were her own

silhouette.
242 · Feb 2019
Rewatch This
Onoma Feb 2019
silver screens

of fish, full to

the gills with

cinematic portrayals.

rewatch this...

with tubular eyes~
242 · Apr 2024
Accompanying Piece
Onoma Apr 2024
a table knife files its teeth

across a stale loaf of bread.

left imbedded enough to

be concealed by the crust.

its handle juts out, reharnessing

a grip that is no longer there.

a dusting of breadcrumbs line

both sides of the knife, &

an absentminded return to visibility

on the table.

a clock hanging on the kitchen wall

fixates on this discarded still life--

concentrating its repression.

bending the nail that sends it to the

floor--as an accompanying piece.
242 · Mar 2020
Ghostabout
Onoma Mar 2020
calling all nyc empaths,

whose mindspace's

grating like a subway overpass.

the noisome level of this ghostabout,

whose reminiscence slithers against the

doors of Passover.

booming rushes with no hour,

a freak composer sounding

down poised instruments.

with invisible motions.

the acoustics of darkened stages steadily

stirred by an incredible silence.

of a growing audience meditating

without distraction.
242 · Mar 2023
Superlative Scratches
Onoma Mar 2023
a tawny meat grinder pours

a lion away--serengeti stains.

a geographic mismatch thoroughly

named.

making the current burn of a sun

accountable--of forgettable reds.

the girth of abomination--made right

by incontinent law.

a fellowship of claws--subdividing

weight.

only to realize what it takes to weigh

anything.

granular stink--superlative scratches

fed to rifts of pixilation.

lost footage between padded paws--

periodically indifferent to flies.
241 · Feb 2019
Particularized Fractals
Onoma Feb 2019
it's unbearably

awing...how a word

waves away meaning.

yet means so much.

these

particularized fractals.
241 · May 2019
Royal Purple Unhatched
Onoma May 2019
i'll never live this love down--

royal purple unhatched.

i love thee, off we go--

indigo drops of half-smiling buddhas.

at the behest of suns rippling off

the roads to wisdom.

passing around a cup as raised in the

rise of energy...blooming a garden

such as none other.

inhale thy being, exhale thy being.
241 · May 2017
Sources Say
Onoma May 2017
Where others beat--
you touch...
a beautiful order.
Put in motion
when neither you,
nor I were looking.
We accused one other
of being godlike at the
same time.
As all is well remained
in the present tense, till
further notice went
unnoticed.
Some call it peace.
241 · Apr 2018
A Monk's Silent Sermon
Onoma Apr 2018
with a monk's silent sermon,
the dyes of memory run and fade.
all that crying in the rain, for the
concealment of tears.
charging the deepest and darkest alleys--
where rats drown bucking their teeth
for air.
i remember you kept creating new
flowers, nailing them to crumbling
walls.
calling them odes to your city, revolving
fast enough for change.
you kept climbing out of yourself, to
inspect the efficacy of emergency exits.
all those lag times through them, negligibly
deemed safe.
we wondered at holding hands able to
part for a passerby.
theorizing until we could not unify the field.
240 · Feb 2021
No Need of Restoration
Onoma Feb 2021
there's an emphasis on

hands melting like the

wax of unlit candles.

reaching out.

the stifled coughs of a

pew's darkness  can be

heard, along with the

smell of freshly baked

bread.

Rembrandt works his way

through a crowd, to where

icons live in paint.

with no need of restoration.
240 · May 2018
Persephone
Onoma May 2018
winnowing grasses--
a workable blear of plotlines.
bore up your scalp--
segued with white noise.
the fine stitch of your
corpus callosum, threw down
ankle-length tresses.
black enough for night to take
asylum--
and spread ranging moonlight.
your return call to sourced sunlight.
wild as a phosphorescent
throat of kept peace.
nature's long sleep in simpatico with you,
drooled resin.
Persephone, that line you toe in
cavernous raiment... has brought
down the house
with your strange delectation.
pomegranate, your caesura--held
on to for dear death.
leathered by the singed petitions of last lights,
bloated with rosaries that seed new planes.
your walk abroad covers
enough ground to blow systematized
stars.
congregationless dimmer switches
of Hades.
240 · Apr 2018
Exacting Prayer
Onoma Apr 2018
lend me your exacting prayer,
and i will wear it faithfully.
your holy rumor will be spread
like baptismal oil, reflecting back
scintillating flames.
this life is one long day of worship--
throbbing blood against the world's
wide turn.
every time bones rattle their cage,
i'm slipped the key of a poem.
of which there is no safekeeping,
just the sounds of words picking
the lock--delight with me this
exquisite balm.
as i've lent you my
exacting prayer.
239 · Apr 2019
Piercing The Dome
Onoma Apr 2019
the spine

is the

sword of

discrimination.

piercing the

dome of the

kingdom.
239 · May 2018
Masquerade Balls
Onoma May 2018
the brain still shows activity

seven to ten minutes after death--

(places taken).

sea-spanning fires, burning wet

particulates setting into a cloudy

mask.

entrata...

masquerade *****,

the conjoinment

of dreamers dancing a

greater body--a galaxy?

only the finest masqueraders may

skirt its center.

till a purposeful misstep,

affords another galaxy.

or not.
239 · Jan 2024
Pop Up Watchtower
Onoma Jan 2024
all rights reserved...

"Beau Is Afraid".

Ari Aster's idiosyncratic

interpolation,

of: "Hereditary".

writer/filmmaker.

who spoke of its gestational

period (in an interview).

ninth to the month.

immuring a pop up watchtower.

unbricking shapely shadows,

that refuse to puzzle over

the downtime of words.
239 · Apr 2019
In Counts of Wing
Onoma Apr 2019
sound that musics

a bird--

towers a prideless

babel.

throats of the winning

spiral.

harmonic to the

feather, in counts

of wing suspended

on spring.
239 · Apr 2019
First Break of Glass
Onoma Apr 2019
frequent my guest--

change me up, up, up...

music the dance.

dime dead warm figurations.

the first break of glass.

be there.

brashly reviving like

green leaved cheeks

in vogue.

featurette of bent wings--

where's the air?

to substance gone.

love me now~
239 · May 2019
Magician's Spectacles
Onoma May 2019
every word is

an umbrella term

for horizontal

rain.

that reads like

a magician's

spectacles.

magnifying

the

multifaceted

essence of meaning.

so naturally you

get drenched.
238 · Jul 2019
Secret Samadhi
Onoma Jul 2019
the strident cord snapped--

moon's pale fount wet with

the sun's all things stillness,

seen to their let be.

crowned dome arrayed--

Shakti freed from space, melts

as the blackened seal over the

pre-post natal rift.

final flash-pan white light entelechy.

she can be heard singing the sob

of freedom, taking step of the gyre

precipice of Shiva's chest.

her involute foot--struck by Aum...

as she's survived by her ******.
238 · Apr 2019
The Fix of Sex
Onoma Apr 2019
i want

to compare

glory,

as we suspend

the fix of ***.

surrendering an

****** while

that miraculously fulfilled

void assumes eye contact.

after the fact.
237 · Jan 2021
Dimensionally Sequestered
Onoma Jan 2021
there's a cold in the

grey outside, perspectively

sectioned off.

its breathy paint keeps

running down and

across frozen surfaces.

there's a window to it,

which drifts--oddly enough

to become two dimensionally

sequestered in walls.
237 · Nov 2024
Nothing Stirs Per Se
Onoma Nov 2024
space has always heard disembodied
voices--then mouths eventually
opened with shocks of sound.
when that involuntarily comes across,
incantations are dwarfed--meaning to.
as if through a corresponding row of
numbers, that give way to unlikey
shapes that compliment one another.
a cluster of grapes resting on the hip
of a naked woman, lying on her side.
light-canceling curtains purporting
the birthplace of darkness, net
motions loose as color left scheming.
though nothing stirs--per se.
237 · Feb 2018
Winter Lips
Onoma Feb 2018
a smile smiled
that split
winter lips.
dead quiet alive--
a mind drifted
by, emptier than
a full stomach.
ghost at its hungriness--
crooked moonbeams
frozen in falling
water.
an icicle hanging
on air.
driven to sunbeams--
melting every
which way.
237 · Nov 2019
All Cretans Are Liars
Onoma Nov 2019
words are funny

things--like people.

multi meaning and

read into.

sort of like the saying:

all Cretans are liars.

though sometimes

the literal sense takes

mercy, like saying:

it's not all about you--

leave my poems out

of it.
237 · Apr 2019
Green Mudras
Onoma Apr 2019
the soles of the

feet crackle--

the top of the head

discharges ecstasies.

as trees begin to make new

sounds when the wind

blows through them.

being met with tiny green

mudras.
237 · May 2019
Bhajans
Onoma May 2019
a hindu boy adjacent

from my apartment

used to sing bhajans

that would ooze honey

from the holes of Krishna's

flute.

yet--sometime between

high school and college he

stopped singing bhajans.

in passing i wanted to wrest

from his eyes what had gotten

to him.
*Bhajans are Hindu devotional songs.
235 · Feb 2019
Blue Books
Onoma Feb 2019
a bed of candles

are unlit & lit...

smokeless flame--

flaming smoke.

blue books reading

each other backward

and forward.

the third second will always

forget to review a sky.
235 · Dec 2019
Babying The Baby
Onoma Dec 2019
when you commit

words enough, you

break down their meanings.

you love them thru the hack.

faithfully smoothening

that roughened patch.

heartfelt defense of gibberish.

babying the baby.

truly placing the birthplace

of a poet.

biographia.




'
235 · Mar 2018
Cast from a Form
Onoma Mar 2018
last night was so
white that doorbells
glowed,
off busy streets.
spring snow ringing
them all.
such a heavy white,
to fall like a cast from
a form.
at the first touch of
light.
you had to of been there,
and you all were.
235 · Dec 2019
Incomplete Music
Onoma Dec 2019
Whereas you hit

absolutely all the right

notes without a sound.

the Aum of me fell

for you.

you could not sustain

such a falling, so you

retreated to incomplete

music.
234 · Feb 2022
A City Featuring Lights
Onoma Feb 2022
seated by the bedside of a

said street...a flower girl hunkers

down a misreading of color, that

claims family to spring's own.

Chaplin fidgets takes--wala, and it's

ramifying  light years in black &

white, yin and yang proposing to

one another at the same time.

rumpus of a penguin-footed mage.

production costs haunted by the

obsessive revisitation of a moment in

time, that only the right take could

liberate.

rheumatoid arthritis of bad directions,

as skyscrapers nicked by forwarding

motion.

a car door interrupts soundlessness.

the syllable of a first fold--emitting off a local

screen.

Charlie's obstinacy from the first flit of onscreen

voices.

the flower opens...the flower girl smiles.

more overpoweringly than she weeps.

supposedly confusing Charlie's purchase,

offering change to an unwitting elderly gentleman

that enters a car whose door slams, startling

cinematic history.

too spare for the things she thought she

couldn't see...

as it were, Charlie could not abscond

from the blind flower girl.

he actually fired and rehired the same

actress.

she finally doused him with a flower ***,

as he attempted to sit beside her.
*Inspired by Charlie Chaplin's 1931 film: City Lights
234 · May 2019
Flown Bird
Onoma May 2019
sunlight blinks

as a bird

flies by.

it's being

flown by

what air

and wind

cannot follow.

nor space.

substantial as

a passing thought,

a fingertip stroked

across water.

yet powerful as the

end of the world...

the beginning of the world.

though flown beyond both.
Onoma Aug 2021
a skull left there, to fully

decompress an image.

the forced entry of a

reoccurring home, not to

be contrasted by its most

striking resemblance.

hardened by wick drawing

conical suns standing at

attention in eyed sockets.

spit out lukewarm to

wax...waterfalls

paralleled by patient rivers.
234 · Aug 2024
Google Earth Stalker
Onoma Aug 2024
a google earth stalker hovered &
zoomed in on localities that predicted
his frequency like an equated John.
fanatically checking for refreshed images--
that he may feature as an action shot of
undiscovered talent.
the quirky habituation of her long distance
fix, a savant's out-of-body experience.
a rendezvous' autopilot, more accurate than a
dreamt address--a gooey **** driving fingernails
into tight fists.
despoiling the lifelines of palms, eyelids cracked
open like blinds voyeuring on the closed door
policy of the indecent.
now she jams her zipper, while hopping in &
out of bed with self-mythology.
alone with her body, or alone with another body.
she's back on google earth again, fastidiously
searching for an appropriate potter's field.
234 · Dec 2019
Rain Gone Wrong
Onoma Dec 2019
it has only begun, this embryonic

shadowplay--an art that promises

to search and destroy.

lines like pavement cracks where rain got in

will be writ--the seepage of what was

suddenly cut off from clouds.

one by one, the Terrible One must account

for rain gone wrong, where all will be revealed.

at first cryptically, then literally.

a silhouette will disintegrate like pepper flakes.
234 · Jan 2024
Boasts Avian Extinction
Onoma Jan 2024
at an underground club's

coat check--a crow's ticket,

stubs a raven's number.

a raven's ticket, then stubs

a crow's number.

their coatrack boasts avian

extinction.
233 · Aug 2024
Ed's Blind Project
Onoma Aug 2024
dungeonesque clanking, subterranean bass
shadowing his 6ft. nine in. horror-addled gait.
the bizarro treble of: decapitation/necrophilia/
dismemberment, introduce Ed Kemper to spaces
he lays comparative disproportion to.
neck like a Great Dane, drowsy bookish eyes
smeared behind circular glasses, decisive comb-over,
& walrus mustache.
his intelligence quotient test herded him where
geniuses reportedly dwell.
monstrously sidestepping from where things can't be
measured--murdering his mother & her friend, along
with six female co-eds (not to mention his grandparents
on a prior youthful conviction).
now imagine Ed, plain old Ed--taking a load off in a
soundless recording booth in prison.
clearing his throat & reading into a microphone--
hypnotically translating into a cavernous monotone.
jarring the listener to heightened attention with emphasis--
seventeen audiobooks were recorded by Ed Kemper for:
The Blind Project.
how ironical for such an elocution to bleed through--
in this way.
233 · May 2022
Dragging Out Fresh Kills
Onoma May 2022
as parks take very long walks

of their own, spring can't seem

to recover from Her confession.

way up there with an extremely

changeable blue, entangling Siamese

twin kites.

where she devours color--dragging

out fresh kills offering life.

what's plain sight of a clap of thunder--

over riled steads of land.

then comes the softest rain of be-fanged

Buddhas slipping from branches.

downed and open mouthed--keeling over,

to resemble what is Realized.
232 · Jun 2019
Wedded
Onoma Jun 2019
i can hear

music slow

down,

as it blackens

its hole.

beats dying

to spread their

space.

as light sheds

over them...

in such a Way

that.

It's All Wedded,

simply because

I've truly seen

Her.
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