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Onoma Sep 2024
black noise gentles out calls to weakness--

the exposed bellies of private animals, in

discolored night.

profuse as a Garden of Gethsemane--eaten

away by a hard alphabet.

they are the thing that needs to be said.

spines like blowing reeds going through the

motions of unofficial prayer, subdividing

stations of living quarters.
Onoma Jan 2019
i prop up

against

deep space...

strumming its

blackout

chords.

to avail visuals

of sound.

heartbroken waves

washing away~
Onoma Oct 2016
A tunnel is
the blackout
space for
supreme
realization.
End to end...
beginning to
beginning...
middle to
middle.
Onoma Dec 2024
a hole stood up, & sealed off--

thin as a glancing blow.

a black poka dot that fell flat

on deep space again.

the face plant of an arch.

sort of like a slinky taking

a linear step.

reopening & consuming

significantly more of unsaid

space.

you would never know.

as would a white moth

disintegrating against electric

red inners, like confected

sugar.
Onoma Mar 2023
there's an abandoned castle--

that sits like a wet, black stamp

on a hilltop.

overridden by a kingdom that

will not come again.

a frozen--then released overspray

of birds left to horizonal adrenaline.

matchstick humanoids hurling

out of its windows & trapdoor.

raving descriptions of fire.
Onoma Oct 2014
There's no sullying its consternation of him in her,
her in him.
A downy black of exquisite precaution...pops its
ruffled heretofore and floats.
As if a night cocked back its neck to calculate the
trauma, longingly poised as a swivel of mottled
blood.
The black swan's eyes fork some bygone coruscation
to their very top...as if in the throes of demonic rapture.
Whereby reality's moments of lucidity seem to catch
frozen frames in want of editing.
Thereupon...as there it is, as there it goes...the black
swan subsumes, wears the guise of regal unnaturalness.
A betokened freak loosed...loosed...so...softly, at
maximum indifference...O black swan.
Onoma Oct 2016
White answerable
to white...black
the perimeter
sworn to silence.
Onoma May 2023
tiers of light splash down

suns thru one well.

the mouths of flowers

coloring the gypsy pipes

of birds.

images leaving where they

left off--to be three of a kind.

the most silent-speak striking

up sound.

think the butterfly-lungs of

a collapsed sky.

the turn, or curve of resurrection--

recalled by it's circle's circle.

in the dead of round.

a black & white wreath set

speedily to color--on a chosen

head.
Onoma Feb 2024
the blast furnace

of a

carousel--

encrusts the burnt

umber of horses.

with the continual spray

of a crimson outline.
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 2018
the sky

above

the clouds

keeps calling:

last call.

the rain

being

blind drunk...

keeps pouring.
Onoma Nov 2019
the angel of justice

has her blindfold

loosed, and drawn

across her eyes.

while appearing to be

firmly affixed.

it's involved enough

to pull off the illusion

while keeping it on.

balanced scales have

already freed her.
Onoma Mar 2020
wedged in a steep

crevice, a watchman blindolded

many times over.

slowly crushed by the hours

he keeps--with no reprieve

from such a cover.

impossibilities come of his

eyes, and the blindfold dampens.

his body a violent rattle solitude

cannot shake off, stifled agonies--

lest the stones may hear vulnerability

among them.
Onoma Jan 2017
At the peak of
presence imposed,
wet with rise and
fall...you eulogized
something that could
not escape us.
We grounded the sky,
we skied the ground...
the circumvented posts
of our eyes ran as blind milk.
Onoma May 8
I exist in that I

do not--

I'm always

away from me.

Now.

As always,

an infinite

being.

Whose every

moment is deja vu.

So far beyond

noticing every

detail.

As if nonexistence

blinking into

being.
Onoma Dec 2015
The way a
title wave crashes
on shore...
and lesser waves
sup what's left
of it...saltwater
blithering to sand
about the logic
of destruction,
ergo emotion.
Onoma Mar 2024
the ground/sidewalks/streets

are usually checkered fluctuations

that accelerate into vortical pits.

then are spit out.

as if not being where one is--

consequentially proceeding toward:

having not been.

yet, as it seems currently...the weight

of the entire world settles, & an

existential foothold shoots blocked

information thru the crown.
Onoma Jan 2019
i can see the end

of time--

served on a platter

by an unsteady hand.

a block of wriggling

black jello...peppered

with the prayers of flies.

whose wings beat life

to it~
Onoma May 27
A vessel becomes the

planchette of depths,

moved by the underbelly

of a storm.

Drawn all the way out,

to know how it's seen.

The bloodless spelling

of its own name.
Onoma Dec 2023
the Atlantic fathoms the bloodlines

of raindrops now.

shown to their lighthouses as watchers

with sleeping masks.

their cloudless searchlights circumnavigating,

resubmerged to stand the trial of:

who among you?

--catalyzed the element that continually

drowns the final frontier?

spawning Charybdis' insatiable hunger

for ships.

whose whirlpools confiscate ripples,

that downwardly core-out their bodies

of  struggling saltwater.
Onoma Jul 2018
you're my blood moon...

my muse,

my sleepless eyes.

hanging there,

skinned raw...

animal and angel.

energetically pulling

on this awakened

body.

you've touched an

intimacy that's made

me territorial.

so i blow out stars

with the authority that

grants wishes.

i want that sky as black

as perfected extinction...

just so you can bleed

and scream Ma~
Onoma Sep 2018
how to

quantify

crucifixion...

blood sells

itself.

you're so

good for it.
Onoma Nov 2020
an ambrosial garden

giving off remembrances...

the whole lot of seasons to

lifetimes.

scents that trip the turn of a

bloodstone to its inward sun.

the let-go of paradises Christed

to their consciousness, married

to otherness--then no other.

first the feeling of having been

there, then that feeling relieved

of having been anywhere.
Onoma Apr 2020
Cezanne's patchwork crestings,

hitherto spring to bloom

into cubism.

springs hence.
Onoma Jul 2016
Blow after blow
of light in variation
dark.
Would the purifying
centrality of each
blow be withstood...
heart will be said
of stance.
Onoma May 2019
the sky's getting behind

its blue--to terrify itself.

electric, alert and popping.

the trees fizz lime green.

the moon's askant

half-sunk--

the tapered brushwork

of a blown crown.
Onoma Feb 2019
this heart-thingy

holiday blowout,

hurts those that feel

more alone with the

one they don't truly

love.

than those who are

alone, yet burn for

true love.
Onoma Oct 2020
prayer wheels are being

spun by a herd of windhorses,

thundering on all planes.

soothsaying sounds of unbounding

lay of lands, tumult and constant

arrival.

urgency in passing, outrunning

urgency in passing.

glassy eyes wearing the kicks of

hooves and speeded ground...

the herd of wind horses due to

blow through Shangri-La.

whereat they will die down, as

their Heart receives them.
Onoma Aug 2021
the glancing blow

of one stone.

sparks against

nothing else,

but a bludgeoning

mountain.

the pride of a

shore setting sail.
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.
Onoma Nov 2015
The passengers board
the blue bus...it's full.
The passengers unboard
the blue bus...it's empty--
destinationless.
The blue sky's likeness.
Onoma Jul 2021
there's only incomprehension--

as even a Word given

reads like alphabetical order.

to watch its letters burnt

down for poetry.

end to end, as words having

received Word--leap from

the windows of a blue castle.

which mean as they fall for.
Onoma Sep 2019
birds spend their lives searching

for the root of the sky.

they fall from the sky, only when

the sky pulls their root.

where blue clouds appear full of

their flight, all of their song.

for one final contrast.
Onoma Nov 2014
Formless words...broadcast scribbling space, their diagram
of poetic motion washes over you...formed on impact.
Dark room's glow in broad daylight--your fully developed
picture...deepest blue of two worlds in one, betwixt vibration.
Hue of the canonized, twanging entire a cloudless sky...
enriched tenfold in mimicry of you.
If only stained glass and silk would wed, search light's
spectrum...distill the most affecting gradation of blue--
then would you see a just replica?
Visionary's shield...where earthen wend unveils the abysmal...
that eyes may remain upon you--till one is ferried, and
vision seen through.
Apogee of seventh sea...epicenter of dancing Nine Muses,
whose round keeps the Blue Flower earthbound.
Blue Flower of the poet's pilgrimage, whose synesthesia
electrifies.
Blue Flower...a nebula pinned to earth, the name of spring
born of you.
The golden section of angels fly their flawless form to you...
that High Art may pray to High Art.
...Blue Flower, commended spirit rife with grace...whose
ceaseless hour at hand holds beauty alone.
Mind, quill to tongue riven--if ever...ever is now--Blue Flower...
ever is Now!
The words of this poet have begun fasting...not to eat of what
they cannot sacrifice...their Blue Flower.
*The Blue Flower was a movement of German romantic poetry, coined by the eighteenth century German poet Novalis. It's a symbolic representation of the poet's aspiration toward the infinite.
Onoma Apr 2016
As the emanations
of a saint, in
eternal spring...the
Blue Hyacinth sat.
A fragrance more
home than home.
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.
Onoma Feb 2019
let the moon

drift off like

a pebble down

a well...so tides

may lose the pull

of her tale.

blue is a still color.

which her illusion

wants to move.
Onoma Jul 2018
i dove down to the bottom

of Mariana Trench, to plant

my blue pearl.

it's the very point when the ocean

and sky look into each

other's eyes, and let loose love.

as clear as your face in a dream

asking me to profess this immensity...

which now i have.

i awoke to a blue jay crying hysterically

out the window, and energy gushing

from the crown of my head.
*The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans, located in the Western Pacific Ocean.
Onoma Feb 2020
black curtain over

the city skyline,

apothic explosions

of transformers.

flickering subway cars--

snap portraits.

Picasso's: Blue Period

ellipsis.
Onoma Jan 2019
a blue whale's

eye sloughs ocean

water.

as the limitless rain

that skied it open.
Onoma Mar 2019
when daylight secludes

my moon--

she stares out of a

blue window.

when she climbs through

that blue window,

her face's a nightlight.

to see dreams come true.

she's my falling form

of love.

unwitting as deep sleep.
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.
Onoma Nov 2018
your timing's so good--

you prove it doesn't exist.

a stand in testification...

unshakably watching what

gets carried away.

nothing will survive your

Bodhisattva gaze~that's

not willing to give it all away

in an instant.

the ground lights up as your

feet root pilgrimage.

you turn around to heed

the world's call, the world

follows...as it must.

it's you who has the strength to

integrate such pause given.

what's that look like?

i mean, eyes are connectable...

usable in an act of faith.

i keep looking into your eyes,

and they'll never tell me you're

nowhere to be found...because

we look through one another

so well.
Onoma Apr 2017
What have we done to you?
We hung you up there, to
watch truth drain from you,
to justify why we drain it!
Our loss for words found
scriptural release.
You knew the time you were
out of, was no time at all--so
you couldn't help but love it.
No more a broken body in
question.
Even the flies that examined
your wounds shed their wings.
We made your bed, you slept
in full awareness--you heard
us seal your tomb, and grinned.
You got up, and went about
eternal life...remembering to
forget a shroud.
Onoma Nov 2014
Candle-bearing
peace gatherings...
in Night of Ignorance...
have produced,
~Now~
body-sized candles...
in Light of Bliss.
Onoma Sep 2019
helped to waking by liquid

meeting solid--though

something

volunteers absence for most

of the wetness.

too

clear about what's balancing

the rain of sound.

bone dry with what mercilessly

seeps in.
Onoma Nov 2019
there was this guitar picker

who'd dress in an all black suit

everytime a thunderstorm

would make a move on his

bones.

he'd lean against a lamppost--

fedora tipped down, and

play the same old song.

until the bones in his guitar

were picked out.
Onoma Jan 20
a boogeyman coated in moths assigns

each a person.

then boils deep blue milk--to digest

nightlights.

as he poses for sin at three a.m, in a

mansion of closets.

the life force of mustiness screaming

trespass, outed by storage's: no more

room!

our boogeyman makes himself belong.

muffles claws in shoeboxs--an

open mouthed simpleton's birthnights.

drip-dropping drool, the way a faucet

taunts a drain.

romping about as a ball of clothes, a

vintage-scented orbit highlighted by

his solar plexus.

the thrill of being discovered!

as he fantasizes of donating his brain to

science--the opened halves of his

bedtime story.
Onoma Dec 2018
this lambent host's

what's best for you...

sneak peeking out

of a body everywhere

you look.

reservation's booked

by faith.

as these words show up,

unbeknownst.
Onoma Sep 2019
a bore

hole in

a mountain's

a cave.

where yogis

forever dwell.
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