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Ottar Mar 2015
the wind she plays dangerously with me,
she picks up leaves and chucks them, hardly
missing my vulnerability,

but just then, she softens her voices
leaving me tense, listening and with no choices,
walking is too far while waiting for the next furry,

oh the turbulence of Spring brings up
the dead leaves of Winter to over-fill my cup
with worry, some woe, some wanted need, to go

and yet you don't know her beauty-in-this-Poetry, it does not show,
and I know not where, to find The Source as such.
well with winter on its way out, west coat style, but that's not what this is about.
Ottar Mar 2015
the staccato of warning shots were lost on the captured still water,
of the aquarium tank, I am he the tank, so please don't blow my seals

you grow on my transparent sides
like algae, ******* oxygen, override,

all the good that came of me,

I am left with the green, but not worth a dime,
in the real world, misery has hurled compromise

to be worn like sack cloth while my *** sits on ashes,

to keep me company, I read out loud sounding every vowel
though the consonants are all I can see, bubbling to the surface,

throwing in the towel
is mutually beneficial

for the good and the
bad in me.  I am done.

Change the water or buy a new tank, and this time
buy some fish to keep yourself amused.
Something fishy going on here.
Ottar Mar 2015
me to tears
people and their belongings
unheeded longings
away from fears

moving

interstellar orbs
doing this for the sum of all hobbies
in the darkness naked bodies
all the space two could absorb

moving

fast running in circles
age rejects the skin wrapped tight around the bones
the mind keeps ticking like a bomb that nobody owns
chasing own tails and squirrels

moving

digging up forgotten nuggets
helping them find a nut!
they stole your marbles, but
you have a gun and no bullets.

you moved.
when I figure this one out, you will already know.
I know but ... I don't know you well enough to tell you.
I live outside the city limits, that is why I can get away with this!
Ottar Mar 2015
relationship
precious, trust
intimate, daily, modelled
Mother and Daughter, first to sacrifice
life, flesh, protects
eternal, hope
love
oversimplified I know
Ottar Mar 2015
father
to the sons in
short a legacy of
stubborn racism disavowed left
behind
My father was a racist, and one night at the dinner table, he would not relent, I was in grade 11 and my brother was in grade 8, had had enough
he went on a racist tangent, as he had before and my brother and I left the table and said we would not eat at the dinner table until it stopped.  We took our plates to the living room.  From that night on for many nights my dad seldom spoke of anything, but sadly in the long run, he did not change, we did return to the table and have conversations that became acceptable.
Ottar Mar 2015
clear sky cold  descending,
scrambled
mind like an egg, impending
communications
signal so lost, on depending,
a present frequency
that can carry the weighty
scale
of injustice pales to the moonlit
verse read
of a Shakespearean tragedy
peppered
and salted
to taste
no waste
well not yet, clearly
as the
past is
tense
and the Twain shall never meet,
Mark my words
So...do ya follow?
Ottar Feb 2015
as far as frontiers go, there is the mind, the oceans and
there is space,
as far as points on a compass, there are four, then eight
and there are sixteen,

Of three hundred and sixty.  On Earth.

Take your compass to the ocean deep,
leave it there and let the pressure creep
inside for if the needle points right
it will be a miracle, a crushing miracle.

Antares.  The first time heard I this name
it was on the self-same Star Trek.  Logic
escapes me right now, for logic escaped
us all, when he left.

Antares. A bottle of Shiraz from Chile,
would you raise a glass of anything tonight
and wish one another to "live long and
prosper"

Antares.  Fill a portion of space, look close
no, you won't see his face, nor even the
face of God.  Some mysteries still need
logic to solve. Even through a four finger "V"

Antares.  Meet me there bring your glass
and a telescope, a star chart and the dvd
pack of every episode, we will set the
table and a place for every crew member
                                              and remember
to leave one for the science officer, Spock.

Turn the lights low and with
the remote control just hit play
and stare out to space, sublime
one final frontier, one final time.
COPD,  I have a friend who has been diagnosed with this disease, worked in a garage his whole life, exhausted and exhaust fumes, he is have a struggle and his is not end stage.
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