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Jul 2019 · 284
Lunatic Apostate
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Formless, hidden flagrance
Bastardizations
Subconscious invasions
Derealization

Murderous mindless mental gobbledygook
Aloof, to bide inside and take a look
Spurious flourish in acrid abhorrence

Tis the demon
Which lies within
That tells me lies
And promotes sin

Trials of toilsome interims
Stagnate and rot, in mine, chagrin

Ineffectual ****** aggravations
Sordid, torrid want, ablation
Putrescence of evanescence

Sorrowful warbles in gargling marbles
Choking on hope,
extinguishing flames of my name and making

Prodding the prongs of the timeless song
Rending and rendering nought to which I belong

Seeing sights, in blindness bind,
simulations of kindness, in emptiest minds

I've seen it screaming, deadened in the dark
It doth implore me, say'n only "Hark!"

Tell me truly, what unruly things of which you speak
Portent futures ever looming, bleak
Unspeakable things

I cannot be
I will not be but me
I am not apostate
To lunacy
Jul 2019 · 65
Flowing Water
Dan Hess Jul 2019
He's cold and hard like ice.
That's what his energy is like.

I will be flowing water.
I will be warm water.

I will be compassion and gratitude.
I will be welcoming,
and enveloping,
and encompassing,
and strong.

I will follow currents of truth,
and become bigger
than he ever could as an iceberg.

I will show him that strength
can be found in vulnerability,
and maybe one day, he will melt.
Jul 2019 · 84
Doormat
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I couldn’t be lower
but at least someone understands you
I couldn’t be flatter
But at least someone supports you

Why pick me up off the floor?
That’s where I belong
Just leave me at the door
Someone to kick your dirt upon

I could use a place to hide
Somewhere safe, to stay inside
But I’m always left to wait on you
And clean your ***** little shoes
Jul 2019 · 93
I Play Rage Games
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I'm addicted to the punishment
I just keep coming back
I've got the motive
I can own it
Til I conquer what I lack

It's like a high when I get by
And I'm a better fit for more
Cause I'm awaiting all the pain
And all the suffering in store

It's just a fact of life
You've gotta go through strife
So why not take the edged knife
Put in your mouth
And take a massive ******* bite
Jul 2019 · 173
Coffee for breakfast
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Coffee for breakfast
And a knot in my stomach
That riles up the tension
Bloodflow, bloodflow, bloodflow
I have work to do
Jul 2019 · 76
Love of Wind
Dan Hess Jul 2019
My heart swells sometimes in solitude
And I take to the air outside my room
Stretch my fingers, let my life energy course to the tips
As I beckon the wind

It takes
but a moment
As I wrap my head around the clouds
Blanket my mind over the atmosphere
I must pull its whole, for the breeze to appear

But it always heeds to my beck and call
Always cools and soothes my aching, raging head
Which sets aflame in rife emotion

Sometimes I think it cruel to cast them out
These emotions
I know not where they go, when I'm through with them

But I know the wind loves me
As it loves all those unwanted things
Cruelly cast upon the breeze
Jul 2019 · 576
A Precursor to Madness
Dan Hess Jul 2019
“Laughter begets laughter! Sin begets sin!” said the voices which echoed pervasively in the mind of the guardian of the gate of the tower of the wall of the town of the city of Evanshire.

In response to this, he said aloud “Then what would herald a minor flaw to be chosen as beautiful, indeed?”

Beauty is often found within a transient burst of light which turns itself over the surrounding darkness only moments after. Its superseding ancestry is lost to the environment; however, this is not the case with most things delightfully brought on by human empowerment. Humans, being such compulsive creatures, strive for nothing less than perpetuation of order in all things, and beauty be ****** if that means changing a systematic response to something more naturally, intrinsically made to fetter in the palm of the last vestibule of temporal illusion.

Some see the animals which deem themselves superior as parasite; feeding off the presence of life and ore around their very bodies. Unbridled power given to the bearer of serendipity, humanity turns their noses up as if it were anything of their own control. Disgust is what should be shown toward such foul, obscene little things.
    
The man laughed out at the ridiculous rantings put forth by his narrator.

“Is that what you think,” he said “that we’re all just ****? Well maybe you’re right, but this world is **** impressive. Sure more than I’m deserving of.”

Just as that was said, an owl hooted somewhere in the distance. Its hoot was perceived by the guardian, but his perception was fallacious. He heard a fibrous, alien-like sound. So deeply disturbed by this was the man-guard that he fell back in his chair and lay wrought on the ground for several hours. It was not until he was awakened, by himself no less, that he took himself to try his hand at movement once more. He gently flexed, starting at the tips of his fingers and leading up to his first forearm, before he exhausted all his chakra and mustn’t have had any need to persist, for he was already standing there where he had found himself lying on the floor.

“Are you okay?” he asked himself, before realizing he was talking to a ghost and hadn’t been lying on the floor for a bit at all.

The moon had begun to set and was large and glistening in the oblique sky; its blue tint reverberated the light over the countryside, and questioned the very existence of everything excluding the reasoning behind it. However, this need not be mentioned and would be better to leave for another rant of time and loss.
A crow perched itself on the stone windowsill, which had been chipped slightly on the right edge leaving exposed brick and mortar. Just beneath the arc of the sandstone window was the nest, and the crow held in its beak a few worms which appeared to be dead. One could assume the crows effervescent green eyes were a result of secular radiation and shouldn’t be concerned or associated with the fermentation of grapes, but the guard, who is the same as the narrator and the voice in his head, knew better than to act like such a fool and knew the likes of objectivity to be a falsification of the throne. He promptly removed the eyes of the crow as to stomp on them and make a fine wine.

Alas, no gain came of this. When the captain’s right hand came wandering into the tower’s top room and found the guard, the narrator, and the spectre sit in the armchair whilst laying on the floor, holding the eyes of a crow in one hand and the soul of hearthfire in the other, he lurched out his guts and asked whether the weather outside was weather or whether it weren’t.

“What’s that?” asked the guard, before noticing the cap’n’s right hand had entered.

Upon doing so, he took the rest of the crow, eviscerated it, and made it into a finger puppet. 

“You know how the fooligan do. Look at all the fooligan, perched atop the hillside. Laughing and drinking, and clinging their rosy glasses. The sun casts a plastic glow across their cheeks. And as they smile, it seems so real. Ah, yes, the fooligan.”
This is old lol
Jul 2019 · 125
Alone
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Deep sunk heart
When tension's low
My heartstrings bow
And resonate in flow
With the reverberations of
Higher vibrations
Thoughts of love
Beyond me

I remember feeling so strange before
I want to rip out my heart
Bleed my ichorous essence
And paint a portrait of my mind
In my own blood
Dan Hess Jul 2019
What a curse for the world of poets to lie within the realm of dreams. We'll never see the real thing the same way, nor will any other see our world at all. So we are strung apart, and never understood, as we seek endlessly to understand ourselves.

Kinship, and loss.
I know of resonance, but not of thought.
I feel emptiness, but I am not.
I am nought.
I am wrought.
I am molded in the image of my dreams.
Which are brought about from all that I have seen.
I know you feel it too, but I know none will see me, true.
Won't know me truly.
I am nothing.
I am losing, simple, fleeting, flighty me.
I am bemusing, ever strewn, interminably.
Lost upon a fabricated of sea of my own dreams.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Through longing
and loneliness
I've now found
A home in this
place where we all share
Our secret, sacred selves

In this kinship,
I have found
I am secure

I feared
I was a fool
To speak of bliss
In constant sorrow

I feared of
Weaving webs of words
Too thick
To let the light shine through

Only gandering, instead
Upon a meal of
Conceptual fortitude

But with a mind full of cobwebs
And miasmas of parasitic insects
I will do whatever it takes
To keep myself thriving
Jul 2019 · 126
Daunting and Unforseeable
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Meandering in longing
Enamored and encupped by awe
The throngs of no belonging
Emotions’ breadth in crypts of flaw

Supposedly a brief respite
Stretched to a night unending
Monotony and doldrums sit
In magick’s-wove pretending

Surrendered unto nothing new
Defender of the hidden true
I bide aside, in wait of you
In wait of fateful mending

I had a calling, when out there
I saw the light and rose, aware
But only now, as I’m ensnared
Do I see Night’s ascending

So grant me form to see in dim lit solitude
And grant me grace, to waste no time in interlude
I wish no more to stray amiss in destitude
And only then shall I find right, my wronging
Jul 2019 · 128
A Beggar's Solace
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Whose kinship weighted to the stars?
Whence ‘pon somnolence alone I stood in brazen
As in tumbling ever unto unbecoming
Doth mine feeble mind, eroded, dessicate

Twas thee, elusive child of naught-let whimsy
Whose implorement did expose my pale visage
As in storms of seas, and listless nights,
thine ilk erects atonement

In shattering shackles of perspective
With gentle blades of softest sounds
To render mine enigma commonplace

Prithee, take leave
But frail fate, do not abhor
As it were, an oft unproached night
Beget allusions of entreatment
Jul 2019 · 76
Forest of Forms
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Born into darkness
Surrounded by supplement
To seep into the depths of myself
I must acquire new light
And as I grow, my roots expand
Reaching, ever reaching forth
Toward a better perspective
At that deciding point
The first rays of light shine upon me
To flourish, to grow in the sunbeams
Flimsy, readjusting to find betterment
Darkness reclaims the day
And I sit in waiting
Still, under my skin growth expounds
Each individual cell fighting
Until the sun peeks over the horizon
Until the elusive head of joy is found
Life moves forward, and around me
Growth is expanding and retreating
Much time passes
With each tribulation, strength given
With each success, I reach forth
I spread my limbs in the sunlight
Once so flimsy
I am now unwavering
I reach to the sky
Standing above all else
Heavy, strong, and supporting
And I am not alone
Jul 2019 · 118
Stark Accosted; Mother Lost
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I am ire
In the land of wrath
And I smile emptiness
On your behalf

I linger, soulless
In the grass
Overgrown
and under pathed
In terror, peril
Paralyzed
I reap the fortuned
And dole demise

I am nature
Cruel and empty
I once was full
But you reject me

I am every sin you've casted
To the wind, now everlasting
I am the dark you dread
I am flagrance, and the dead
Jul 2019 · 55
Haven
Dan Hess Jul 2019
This bleak, overcast sky
holds in it a well of condensing energy;
similar to the way one calms down in their deepest despair.

The wind rages with no destination;
it is carried only by what is left behind,
and falls ahead,
flowing blissfully with a current.

The trees have no care;
they thrive off the land and the sky,
the sun blanketing them in warmth
and feeding them to elicit growth.

The animals frolic
back and forth in repetition
only with their most primal desires.

It is only we humans
who concern ourselves
with personal desire and want;
that will be our downfall.

Sometimes,
to simply stop living a fast paced,
reward induced existence
and pay attention to nature
is to realize the value
of forgetting what is
and allowing yourself to simply be.

This is my safe place.
Jul 2019 · 65
The Nomad's Home
Dan Hess Jul 2019
The candid poetic escape
of a beauteous nature embrace
is what I crave

To wander in my nomadic way
And find myself astray
Upon the land's breadth and clay

To live the magick in my mind
And wander every day
And love alone
in the primal home
and listen for the call
of mother nature
in us all
And feel for once
I'm heard
And beauty listens

It's so loud
In this awful town
And people seam
To disconnect
From what was once
our essence

They escape pain
And aimlessly blame
And live in fantasy

They are
ever distracted
By the flashing light
That carries into night
And call me crazy
For wanting only
To reconvene
With my roots

But in my mind I am a poet of myself
And my soul is open to the energies abound
And I am lost within my heart
For I am cast apart
When nature's call to art
Is so far away
And all I've wrought
Is ever sought
In things I cannot reach
Unless I stray alone
Into the nomad's home
Jul 2019 · 59
Peaceful Affectations
Dan Hess Jul 2019
To be engulfed in the swell of natural flow
and fleeting above all transit
To be one with the atmosphere
and ever changing

To feel and know
without becoming your own
is to be free

For we who are bound to earthly soil
are rooted in our growth
And those who look down upon us
from an atmospheric lens
can change with the winds of fate

I wish to migrate
with the changing air pressure
And follow warmth to levity
I wish for
a natural compass
Telling me
Exactly
Where I belong
Jul 2019 · 95
Earthbound
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Twas but an arid night of ambiance
They sought in duplicitous reunion
Of the innocent kind
When stars would shine, undermined
And spotless sparkling eyes would watch them blind

We are starbound, on the ground
Never hoping, never found
As those who fleet abound
In space, and leave no trace or sound
Are seeing us and wondering how
We manage to keep ourselves from choking
On these troughs which runneth open
To our feeble mouths

Oh simple scintillation
You are not what I beseech
I wish for truth in energies
And not to look back; to repeat
What I have seen that beckons thee
To hear my call, and ever fall
To what is empty
Jul 2019 · 104
Celestia
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I see angels
hiding in interesting places
Reading numbers and
forging signs for many
minds upon
passing tides
of energy
I see them
perched
atop their
ethereal pedestals
in astral
in multitude
and bleeding beauty;
magick, which winds
into the arrow of time
I see emotion
crystallize
and bend
the flow to
rend inertia
to the will
of mortals
I am
forever floating
on the tides
of in between
I am
I am
not
I am
but
a vessel
for this
energy
to see
itself
Jul 2019 · 91
Life Finds A Way
Dan Hess Jul 2019
In a forest, dead,
with scattered leaves
Its ground frozen,
and wilted of color
A falcon perches
Unperturbed
By snarling predators
Strung about
Upon the forest floor
The wolf strays
But never loses sight
Of its many allies
Seeking sustenance to share

The wind bellows
Through canopies above
Swaying the trees
To sing their song
Their language lost to time

The deer flee
Adorned in fear
And mystery
No home stays safe

The robin cries
To find its lifeblood
A mate, a partner;
A legacy

The owl
Wise as ever
Stays hidden
‘Til nightfall,
and easy pickings

Crows fly by,
In murderous surplus
Strung amiss on winds
Which tarry absently
Mice hide underfoot
In leaves
and burrows aplenty
Scavenging whatever’s left behind

In peaceful silence,
The songs of life
Break tension

The trickling
Of a stream
Can be heard
in the distance
A forest, dead,
with scattered leaves
Still very much alive
Upon further inspection
Jul 2019 · 60
Cosmic Cleansing
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I shower my soul in starlight
to cleanse these marks upon it
once called indelible

I am in transit
Flowing forth in stasis,
as the cinematic pages
flicker onward through my
ever changing perspective

I am on Time's Journey
of souls
I am a mourner
of the losses
which remake us
into something whole

For I am losing
what I thought
I was
before

I am choosing
to move past
what I abhor

I am becoming more

I am emerging
bathed in light
as old as time
I am shedding
all my existential
grime

I will rise
Unbound by
these depths
of darkness
Jul 2019 · 49
Dejected
Dan Hess Jul 2019
What is a whisper or a shout
when no one’s listening?

What is what is,
and what’s without,
if I’m not truly being?

What does it mean to feel,
if all that I know is but unreal,
and why does my heart sink in such loneliness?

There is no dialogue in poetry,
and for this,
I will ever wish my eyes
could produce tears.

Yet I am far too backed up
for such things to produce dribble,
nowadays.
My ducts will only respond to tragedy.

I don’t care if I’m beautiful anymore.
I don’t care if my words inspire.
I am a fallen tree,
in a forest only meant for harvest,
and the only guise of an audience herein
is carrying my destruction.

So harvest my heart for wood of the hearth,
and let me die in a blaze of glory.
Just please,
put me with my friends
when you’re ready to start your fire.
Jul 2019 · 72
Life is a Fairy Tale
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Faeries of the Forest and of Hearth,
hark; hear my cry.
To this sovereign soul, I say goodbye.
I say goodbye!
And for a time, to mend the mind,
within me, I should lie
alone but never far from home,
forever, shall I wonder why.

For loss of self, to someone else,
in time, and time I bide.
'Til therein wrought, should guile my thoughts,
to-whence my mind would fly
to coalesce with what is met
and tie to ties unworn;
as all should cover my apt discovered,
compilation sworn.

I am not stead, and nigh complete.
My life is bred, and further yet
toward, thus, another destiny,
not too discrete, and transient.

So as I hail, I herald thee:
O' Faeries of the Heightened Trees

Whose souls should soar.
Doth I implore:
take pity on sleight'd me.

Forbearing in my casts asunder
of the soul which holds my wonder.
Now I must fledge forth
for what is worth
as is my age old blunder.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Wherein the runes should speak of your awakening
Myself eclipsed; in tides of darkness, shrouded
For if my only knowing height’s forsaken me
By fate itself, my action found, is clouted

Your magick weaves a tale of legend's stature
In ire, I am besmirched by my affection
Yet, by the open skies, my heart is captured
Sewn to my soul, yore; guide, and my direction

At first, it was in solace I lamented
I'd found my home arrested, thence, herein
Yet, glowering upon thy throne, cemented
My gaze adhered to thee, my heroine

In stark decree, and vying for attention
To coalesce with thee, I seldom whisper
I nary take to me, in, for retention
As ether beckons, beguiled, am I, through fissure

Wrought unto planes ascended, everflowing
Sovereign soul of thine undoing, wild
Wherein altogether cometh, nought is growing
Though godly; Us, it still is but a child

Mine interim; thine own chagrin
To be without what is
As what is outward lies within
And all begotten, His

So cry, do I, to Mother Moon
While in the night you rise
By loneliness, pray, end me soon
Please, take me to the skies


For He, the Sun, is brightly blinding
Why, nocturnal, my life!
Thus, in the light, no sight I'm finding
Only endless strife!

Your mystery; the depth of thee
Ne'er seen before in effulgence
If thine enigma summons me
I shan't be revenant

Ineffable is that which tempts
To be beyond it all
Conceding corpor, to-when, hence
Abandoned is my droll
Jul 2019 · 79
Language Transcendent
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Music captures emotion
Unspoken cues of pure passion
in subconscious impressions
It puts a feeling to the words,
and adds that meaning
Lets you feel what was felt once before

Music touches the soul
Gives a glimpse into the essence
of another's heart

What happens when a song captures it all?
When love is found between the notes
And upon them, heavily impacted sorrow
When joy is wrought from each rising tone
And devastation in every falling sound

If a simple melody
So exquisitely and without forcefulness
Can carry itself, to empathize
With each and every man, woman, child
The only proper response is to cry
Jul 2019 · 84
PuckleBagger
Dan Hess Jul 2019
To rise alone
A conqueror of nothing
To find a home invexing there
To live without the need to be
And die to flee eternally
In bliss, untied
to needs of recognition

To mean to be
To love and leave
To sip the cup of madness
And love for letting, not

To fall again in sembalance
And re-administer defense

To regard rendered
rift and revenue

Alleviate my cinching plight
Upon the wary reigns of Nigh
Begat and spat whence
The Farrowed Slop, detrite

Squander me to recompense
I am but rinded ambiance
I fall to hithermore and prescience
Dethought me
Jul 2019 · 75
Fluidity and Magnetism
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Beauteous insurgence
of emotions from the nether realm
beget to me a sense of solidarity.

As the veil shifts
and fissures form,
my thoughts are swarming
with indulgence,

for I know the time is nigh,
and ripe with wonder.

It is the beauty of the spirit
that sparks light in life,
and time is ridden
throughout our fragile minds
as we embark upon this journey
of baited transience.

I rise up from the ashes, now,
and choose to make of myself anew;
beginning where I thought my self had ended,
and emerging,
renamed as Allbecoming.

I see Us, and smile,
for understanding is a kinship
only found when thoughts
surrender to the stars,
and all is one.

I am nought,
and return to clay,
to be remolded.

I am love, untouched,
and you are the earth
that presses against my form,
thereto unfold me.

I am lattice,
growth, and strength,
and you are all that holds me.

You are the love amiss, and now,
when I am forced to reminisce,
I know the feigned nostalgia of old-life
is but a whisper in the breeze,
incomparable to the needs
you fulfill,
without me ever having seen them as such.

Your love is blinding,
but my eyes are opening wide,
dilated, and ready to receive
the light you cast;

it blends with shadows,
and amassed,
is my only guidance
through dark dismay.

You are renegade,
and I am nomad.
You are the one
through whom my soul
should coalesce,
and form a balance.

You are mother
and child.
You will never
be forgotten.
Jul 2019 · 87
As Death Beget, Itself
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Thence again was I
hovering,
waver-not and wafer-thin,
again within the fill of it.

I blobbed and echoed,
morphed and me,
without the inner tree
of life's own blossoming,

and such itself that I
was but a whisper.

An immortal dissonance
begot its own retainment
to the discipline of ages
it had wandered 'gainst.

Its dissonance was form
and revenance irreverent.
A sudden questioning
sparkt the death of innocence.
Jul 2019 · 70
Bottom Feeder
Dan Hess Jul 2019
It's spacious in the background
I need some time to squander
My mind is made of moldruff
I might as let it wander

I've gotta let the walls out
And take a cup of three
I'm making extra couplets
I've gotta book a steep

Could listless information
on my cold beset'ums got?
A sparkling for the ages
But I think I'd rather not

I patched a cap in baldsworth
It's another half agown
I'm staking half'a bulb's herr
And heading out of town

It's constant and I know I'm broke
But I can't claim the race ahoof
I've legs but I've not caved a stook
And I'm a little houseshook
Jul 2019 · 65
Wind Tunnel
Dan Hess Jul 2019
To reach, aghast, unto sorrow
Mumchance, and squandered kindred spirits, nigh
To tumble, torrid, into thee, Abyss
Flittering alone whilst tired mine doth reminiscence
Nay, falling, ever, til I'm thought to fly
Where every whim becomes a dream

Every dream shall turn awry
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Give me words to speak
And I will weave them into meadows
You will weep upon
To make the flowers grow

And when the meadows
Sprout flowers
And the sunlight shines
They will flourish
Like your soul

And even in the darkest hours
They will pull you into their beauty
And tease your senses
Tantalizing everything

When their aroma
Hits your nose
Do not inhale
But, instead, give breath
And offer sustenance

For nature is your nurturer
And you should return to it
As it is transient

So speak to me
When you are lost in soliloquy
Think of the words I have spoken
And tear your heart open

For I am given to be giving
And I wish only to hear you speak
For it is that which leads me to believe
In life beyond these;
My curtains of perception

So offer me direction
Give leave to this infection
Of expectant predilection
Tell me, what makes you flee
What is your bemusement
What sets you free?
Jul 2019 · 87
Empathic Hiatus
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Residual disparity
In clarity, begotten
By severance of recompense
For all whom I’ve forgotten
In betterment should I lament
For soon, will whims expire
As there, inside, my feelings, pent
A veil adorned by mire

And in my mind I am melting
Fleeing, freely sworn to skies above
Perplexed in my bemusement
Of a relief unfounded
For herein, when the penitent is I
My window is my gaze to forward flying
My imagination in the collective grid
Undying

Ebb and flow
And ripples
On the sea of energy
That we call fate
So plunge me deep
Into the waters
Where all things come to meet
And give me synergy
So I can understand
What it means to be

Tell me,
Please
That I am not alone
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Management officials
Burning up a loaded bowl
Purple lunged initials
****** maker takes the toll

Builder of a time-bomb
Rocket ship to mind foam
Daddy's gonna change the world

Lover of an old friend
I'm the only one to talk

Now we're gonna pretend
Everything is under
Let a couple hours walk

Heavy hearted blacksmith
Dreamer of a peaceful world
And with every sword he sells
Hatred of his craft unfurls

Levity in drugs live
Capable of mending minds
Capital incentive
Modern day directive
Ever monetary binds

Harvesting an alcove
Leader of the dead man's drum
Healer of the rich man
Beggar to the poor man
Now they're calling all us dumb

Hater of the different
Follower of what he's told
Screamer of the apt lie
Dreamer of a blue sky
Internet is making fools

Where are we from last year
And what of the year to come?
Happenstance is romance
Pierce me with a lead lance
Take me to an older load

After all that we've seen
Can we say what we've become?
Creators of an old man's whim
Breaking only what we can
In the maître's blood mind
Maybe we should rewind
Maybe we could stop and think
Jul 2019 · 67
The Death of Poetry
Dan Hess Jul 2019
What's in the words that you prefer
That in mine you can't find?
And what of beautiful nonsense
Does perturb your gorgeous mind?

Are you so blinded by the truth
There is no musing in divine?
And is your only nature pleasant
When the daily pain, your eyes might blind?

By what of truth, does reign aloof?
And where does fact not fall?
And how might every night I lie
If I can't sleep them all?

If every morrow, bide in sorrow,
as my beck and call,
Should life, by mine, become a bore
Might I relive it all?

Or revel in the stranger things
And write for wrong,
Or to my grave, I crawl.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I slept for days in darkness
Til my mind awoke in somnolence
When soporific company
Beget to me lucidity

And levity of thee
My loving enemy
Take flight, be free

So fly, did we
Plunged into new infancy
'Til wake, did I, to find
Signs all around me

The sleeping mind might hide
Behind the tides of rationality
For what is true to me
Could cause my honor to recede

They say spirits fear these
Thou; we; people whose fear flees
Those who live without the need
To hark, harrow,
To this extricated stimulus of survivability

Thus my fear is wrought from nought but me
And what might come to be, begotten by my
Ignorance
Through recompense
And stagnance

Til decisions become prominent
To dislodge my obstinance
And force me to act
In likely, what is foolishness
But such grand an action meant

Should all things come to, for repent
And as things are evanescent
And as things are always writ by what is spent
And some things underwent, but not aptly lent

Forbearing prescience, and cognizance
Of what should come to pass
By destined placement, alas
My sweet laments
Transgress
Dan Hess Jul 2019
In she came
Like a gust of wind
Sweeping me off my feet

And in the air
I lingered there
And felt my mind retreat

It was loss of heat to air
Through which my mind became aware
And thence did doubt deplete

And as I lingered in the air
And as I saw myself engulfed
My eyes did rise to shining sun
Seeing visions of plenty; my whims undone

But thus, alas, as time should fleet
To harrowing mysteries before
My bubble burst at the seams
I plunged to dark, abhorred

Through questioning and recompense
I sought the light fore-met
And in the mind’s eye, new light shined
Through memory dispensed
So there I fell
To abject hell
And there my mind resides
Yet only in the shadow’s summit
Should inner balance, and life bide

Break free of fear
The dark is here
You harbor it inside
Make only effort to balance dark
With all the light you find

As love should take you places
You could never hope to see
Take care to love your many faces
Seek setting your soul free
Dan Hess Jul 2019
You are my platonic goddess,
and I, your wayward mystery
Yet I am astronomical,
and though space is cold and empty,
it holds inexplicable warmth;
its fires rage incarnadine,
and with no suffocating atmosphere,
they smelt as they coagulate
You are my Yggdrasil,
and I, your cosmic soil.
Irony begets your growth,
limbs so far from my earth.
Impress upon me latent wisdoms,
unbecoming of your ilk.
Show me naught,
and extancy shall wax
unto my perception.
Brilliance can only hold such luminosity
in boundless darkness,
or we are accursed and blind.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Love lost to me in times forgotten
When apathy discourages my search
For in the end, I cannot find my love if truth
begets to me only heightened expectation

I long for one who seeks
to understand who I am deep inside
Who shares emotions so strong
I long for one who asks me
what I'm feeling and what led that way
To ask what composes my thoughts

And, I do want laughs, adventure and the like
But as for what I truly seek,
Those conversations about the universe
Those that last for hours
I want to form a bond
I want to know everything about you
But I don't even know who you are
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Star crossed lovers
Gaze upon an empty sky
And search for distant stars
And wonder why
The darkness is so black
When things are never ending

Her eyes might widen
To seek the light
Her mind my gape
And swallow the space
Which borders every star

His words should sparkle
Amongst the galaxies
Writing his love
Across the sky
To live forever

They are
So obsessed
With the beyond
They cannot see the lines
Which form their souls together

And create constellations
Just to unify them
However distant
Jul 2019 · 102
Denna
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Strange things, these eyes that wander only to find a beaten path
It was like magic, when I saw the numbers, saw the signs
And then she was, like magic, brilliant, full of flourish and such
And she was dark but luminescent, an enigma
And as it unraveled before me, all in one fell swoop
Did I feel alive again, but for a moment
Until from her grasp I fell, even before meeting her eyes
To see her wisping with the breeze
And see her wander
And squander herself on petty things
To avoid the clutch
Of that which would hold her
Jul 2019 · 74
Agape
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Soulful synergy escapes my ever aching heart,
where the time and space
that separates
and tears us further apart,
is not but stimulus for art.
And this emotion, like an ocean,
flows forever in every direction.

So, though the desire for affection is unyielding,
the result is an infection of the heart.

In this, we must find our deepest sense of gratitude
-life and love, a perception of beauty -
in ourselves; or risk being lost to the periphery.

That is, the wills of others taking precedent over the needs of self.

I must let go of love.
I must not want to be understood.
Instead, I must seek to understand.

I can live forever,
but never experience the same thing twice;
why should love be any different?

This is Agape.
Jul 2019 · 37
Love is
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Love is as much as it can be,
but it is not whatever it can be.
Love is never too much.

Love is good,
and it is strong.
Love is not being in love;
to be in love, is like an emotion,
in that it can pass you by.
To love, even when out of love,
is to have love.

It is to hold it in your heart,
and cherish it;
to let it be as much as it can.
Love is to live with that love,
by seeing it,
and knowing it,
wherever you go.

Love is knowing that love will follow you,
and you will never be without it,
Even when your heart seems empty,

because love is a bottomless vessel,
deep within your heart,
and although you may thirst for it more at times,
it can never run out.
Jul 2019 · 59
A Home in the Dark
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I wish to steep my mind in twilight
To steal away to a place
Where no one can find me
So I can be alone with my thoughts
And think and feel freely

I am sick of this constant rebuttal
From those who hold their hearts
To be their homes
And barricade the entrances and windows
So nobody can get in
And they can never see what lies outside them

They are hoarders of emotions
Garbage fills their floors, and stacks high up their walls
Walls they built to feel safe and comfortable
To protect themselves from the darkness lying just outside them

Yet, I will shed my tears upon the open earth
And let it drink away my pain, in solitude
Beneath the endless starlight
Which paints the darkness, as my guide
And I will pledge my love to her
In that depth of isolation
Until I no longer feel alone
And my home is established in nature

Then, I will have nowhere to flee to, or from
As I will be with my truer brethren
The kin of natural wealth, which holds all pain that we expel
As, I do too, feel the pain
As I too am a vessel for it
And I too have been cast aside
If not made to take the shape of their desires

In this, again, I weep for nature
She cannot refuse their call to infrastructure
So, in spite of the cruelty of my fate, in being human
I am blessed with the opportunity of choice
And I can never forgive myself
Jul 2019 · 75
Levity
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I shudder at the thought
Of you
Within my frail arms

And to
Release my tension onto
The periphery

I wish for thee
Relief

Free my heart
From stress
And breaking
Let me loose

Untie the noose
My hands
Are shaking

Even when aloof
I'm losing
Grasp of truth

Amusing
Darkness
Proof
Of my escaping
Jul 2019 · 41
The Girl of my Dreams
Dan Hess Jul 2019
It was dark outside
And you were waiting in disguise
And I made my way down to the pier
And climbed the broken boardwalk
To find your friends there with a mirror
Shining visions of your beautiful face
Upon my tired eyes

But you were not stuck within this pale reflection
And it retracted into the box on which it stood
So I turned, and saw you there, adorned in reaper's clothing
In attempt to shake my fragile heart into fleeing
But I saw through your guise, and pushed you into the waters
Heavy, weighed down by the garbs of Death, you began to sink

Without a second thought, I offered my hand, and pulled you from the black water
And I stripped off your mask, to see you were unchanged, and beautiful
And your lipstick was black, but shone in the night, no less
And I thought to kiss your dark mouth, and felt elation
Only to wake alone, with no one beside me, but you lingering in my mind
A woman, only, of my dreams
Jul 2019 · 40
Get Out of my Head
Dan Hess Jul 2019
At first I hoped they’d speak aloud
What words were held within my mind
For thoughts of mine would allude
To their listenings and interlude
And sometimes strange things make me wander
Into thoughts of crazed be-yonder
And I wished for freedom
Validation

But now, they speak so freely
When my mind is caught in wandering
That I should fear to hear
The words so openly, they’ve spoken
For, the fears of freedom
Haunt me
And tie me to monotony
For I can see the damage I might bring
In my abandoning of doubt
In favor’f certainty

My life is cinematic
And in truth, I’ve had it
Up to here with fear
And never near to what’s pragmatic

Might I ever come, in following fate
I’ve shed my doubt too late
I must accept my unbecoming hate
And plunge into the depths of madness
To avoid unspoken sadness
And stop myself from binding lives
To death and endless scourge of lies

Am I harbinger
And emotional winter
Am I the one who will beget our fall
To end it all?
And if so, what is choice?
What’s the point?
Where is my voice?
I do not want this.
Jul 2019 · 55
Psyche Delightful
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I am neither here nor there
I simply flitter about along the spectrum
Reading into every subject
But turning pages before I finish them

Ambivalence is recompense of commonplace deliverance
And I cannot confide within myself a singular position
So contrived is psyche socio-implied
That when I wish myself concerted
I doubt even that truth might exist
And wander evermore

I am a nomad of the mind
And in this endless wandering
I grasp no inkling of forever
But garner truth in facts unfounded
By comparing them to naught

I am an eagle
Free, but always hunting
Strafing toward another nugget
So I might fill the curiosity
Of my bloodied beak
And reap the soul
Of emotion
From the pangs of indifference
To free myself of fixation

Thus, I squander myself
In search of objectivity
But never wonder why
Jul 2019 · 59
Godless
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Three fools divulge in halves of truths
Between the presently aloof
Alluding dissonance as proof
That everything is nothing

Three friends insist that they are one
And every moment must be fun
I cast myself asunder
For I am only getting younger

He tells me, soon, that he should die
And quietly I still deny
The nature of existence
No matter, I am still persistent

They ask of me to love them deep
And in them all my secrets, keep
They tell me I am one
Through many others, nature's son

And when his glory fades away
Her face shall see another day
But I shall be forgotten
And love once promised now has rotten

I gaze out from my widow's wharf
And she is the oncoming storm
And I am filled with fear
For love was once so near
and now I stand abandoned
The storm before the clear
Because I, as but a man, have sinned
Jul 2019 · 46
We are our Nightmares
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Standing over myself
Cinematic symbolism intricately woven
Watching life go by
As thoughts cease
Emotions become
Sharp as needles
Piercing every lost concept

Awakening the mind
And resurfacing that
Primitive, unfounded instigation
To exist without fear
To seek pleasure, but

We destroy ourselves to become one
With the surroundings we can never
Touch; our contact is inane

We see their faces
In our dreams
But the actions
Speaking only to us
Are hidden from view

The moment we step from the pool
Of our own qualitative perception
Ripple, rippled, calming
Until nothing is left
But a scar
Jul 2019 · 95
Queen of Ambivalence
Dan Hess Jul 2019
You are
Interspersed
Between the lines
Of fate and fortune

You are
Fleeting
and flittering
On the cusp
Of reality
And fantasy

You are teemed
With my thoughts
Of love lasting,
And love lost

You are
My treasured jealousy
My wrath
And my bemusement

You are my
Ideal,
Wrapped in leaves of gold
To cover your iron

Yet,
You are light
And smooth;
Almost weightless
I cannot grasp
Your heart
I think you to
Be entertaining many
And loving none, or few
You are beguilement
And empty promises

You are the reason
I get up every morning
And wonder
If I will ever be loved
Like I love you
Yet,
forever you claim
To love the me
You cannot even see
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