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Ottar Jan 2015
Not about nations,
Not a melting ***,
Not multicultural,
Not about people,
    About a person.

All colour can be found in,
The absence of light akin,
to the black, the dark and the fear,
yes, the dark and
the fear.

Not just any dark, but the darkest.

They are separate
yet
found together,
Add wind and foul weather
and the
light just lets you see
the storm coming,
to play with your mind...a field of play?

So where is this going?
It is dark so you tell me.
There is light where you
are, but not around here,
not in this body,
even the thumbs
are black and have their
own pulse,
racing to leave for the light,
in the absence of,
where all colour is black.

Lose track of a loved one and you fear the worst,
the dark thoughts like water find the easiest path.
                                                           ­                            .
                                                               ­                        .
                                                               ­                        ....down,

All colour is black and the absence
of light is the dark, different roots
same result, especially in the corner
of a dark mind where the space is
painted with a fresh coat of black.

Just oozing,
sick of losing,
by fading lighter,
less black, less dark,
.......................leaves room for hope, more or less...
Ottar Jan 2015
Time will compress,
Maybe even your spine,
Counting and taking discs
Like they were poker chips,
A gamble,
A game
A gout,
For adversity,
Are you all in?
Time is not waiting,
Life is passing you by,
Money is falling about the place,
While your, deer in the head lights, face,
Just grows older,
Life will end shortly,
Money will live on without you,
So what, do you surrender as legal tender,
With your last breath,
Surrender your relationships for a short while,
Surrender your love and loves, for a large vessel of agape
Surrender with arms wide open, to receive an Embrace!
...shortly...
gout = taste in French
Ottar Jan 2015
Heart in place on the sleeve
                 No one asks if the man grieve
Walking eyes downcast, quickens pace  
    Leave not the days dust, on your face

             A voice echoes in his hollow head
The only rumbling, stomach hollow unfed
She always said, "sleeping or waking, lave"  
           Leave not the days dust, on your face

                        She left not wanting to leave
                                  Her loss tore his belief
Spectres tease as he walks and does chase
        Leave not the days dust, on your face

he knew she would not like his grief
the joy like dust washed from his face
Ottar Jan 2015
sunlight westward quickly dipping
             o'er ugly toed-feet almost tripping
 frozen ground bumpy with cone molluscs
                         surreal before imminent dusk

             raptor bright hued in the sunlight
           captured freely fronting moonlight
       alignment moment chance the smallest
                         surreal before imminent dusk

      dog below still pause picture caught
catch my breath gasp grasped the thought
           sunlight to moonlight finding solace
                      surreal before imminent dusk

scotch pine limbs frame time a slipping
happenstance just like this,... honest
Instagram elverum51 - the story behind the hawk photo
maybe a Kyrielle Sonnet in form
going out on a limb here
Ottar Jan 2015
sounds my lips around go,
found poetry roadside show,
her mouth had teeth to
bite the air, spout foul
language without a care,
while her dark hair tossed
with her head-felt shouts,
where buses stop,
but not for her,
and she would not stop
her assault on cars that
drove by, leg kicks in the air
high,
while pole dancing at
the bust stop sign, her
mind assaulted and her
body attacked, all that
was out of her reach,
while she was out of her
mind.

She does not always have
teeth, she is not always
standing and moving
like she did today, in the
chill of a January 1 air,
she acted like she cared,
that the world neglected
her,
that the world angered
her,
that the world had treated
her,
wrong and not what she
saw,
what we saw
she needed, help.
But don't hold out your
hand, offer to help her,
today she has her teeth
in and she will bite.
I don't know her name, or what name she goes by.
Ottar Jan 2015
Year of New
Pass Through
Year of Old

Been told
New and old
A continuum

Human logic
Makes the object
Divided pieces

What a species
Presents a thesis
Each part is an end unto itself, forgetting about the whole.

Of Time
and(y)
Of Space
and(y)
Of Love
and(y)
Of Energy
and(y)
Of Poetry
For Andy and those who really knew him (a lot better than I did)
Ottar Dec 2014
There is more grit than you can handle,
man or woman, words will flow,
staunch this bleeding, visit the coast,
let me know when and I will toast,
and raise a glass, buy you a dinner,
and cause you waves that carry you,
away,
             Unselfish,
                                and very sure.

But be assured  I will cry.
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