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I’ve sewn together a thousand moments of nothing (butifandorthis) Outis of sorts and                              ends                      depressed          enough to make your head swim          your wrist spit          to drown in your own thinking grasp breath drench and saturate obsequious regurgitation prolix asphyxiation words worlds whirled LOGOS spew forth and I choke on what I can never get out the emptiness                within                                                    a                                                    few                                            secondsleftoverstepsout     line                                             of                                                curfews ensue more or less and less is more of the same (few cures for futures)                                                   of late a puddle reflecting and shallow sole-stomped-n-splattered I          Can not help but mis   s      the piece( is ) of me that mattered less than the least of my worries and the old black boot             with  a                hole                                                  the one that is always waiting to.                                                                                                           .                                                                                                           .                                                                                                            drop.                                                                                                                                                                                                               I Am                                                                           still                                                                      here                                                  hoping                               inre               verse                          It all fits                                               the tailor-made addendum but it doesn't                                      the sedentary splendor change                                                 the worn out agenda of yet another loop of the clock fomenting a grand sutuREDness rending a torque of tendencies to ward off the subversive inertia of idle thoughts—cum—wishes the edges of that cloud grapple with dissolution and the shaping of my                                          own                                                 periphery                                            sic         [i]magination                                                                                   The interior storm has come and gone replaced by a wretchedly anxious calm I then wonder if these tempests are what is… or just a fallway of mirrors I pass through in a tumble down some hole feeling it’s too late to know if I will ever be whole Alas, another looking glass I have been cut up too to see the half emptiness of ours in the hour glass timetumbling down the singularity of How are we? Relatively bleeding Speaking of self shred- ding dingbats-in-the-belfry A  f  r  a  y e d  address of questioning covered with s-t-i-t-c-h-e-s in this                                               fourth                                        dimension saves what? 9 lives? No rhyme--no reasoning with me                                  …I guess my wounds are dressed but only it will tell                                                                                           (What is real?)                                  (so obviously rhetorical) it marches on and it can’t be stopped but it’s of the essence and they say it will heal All wounds and I say when and how and isn’t now all I have to be? wound up again I see... And then be left to the present tense out of it, Up against it. Who the **** knows? said the Emperor I (in third person disguise) Wearing nothing (He supposes) Nothing But being                   but... The scars Uncovered for the seeing Being what scars are Are they something... Symbolic?  Systemic? Sympathetic? That makes seeing is believing Real for me, Or, for us all? Is Being Beingness Or is it Meaningless in a...life… S P A                                             Not evolving as fast           As semiotics                       Or sentient Robotics For the rest Of us To be Sure that we are Individual Beings at all? What? Time’s up?                          At least for the                                               Time being…                                                                      Nothing to worry about...
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 4:24 PM UTC
Nothing and Beingness
I’ve sewn together a thousand moments of nothing (butifandorthis) Outis of sorts and                              ends                      depressed          enough to make your head swim          your wrist spit          to drown in your own thinking grasp breath drench and saturate obsequious regurgitation prolix asphyxiation words worlds whirled LOGOS spew forth and I choke on what I can never get out the emptiness                within                                                    a                                                    few                                            secondsleftoverstepsout     line                                             of                                                curfews ensue more or less and less is more of the same (few cures for futures)                                                   of late a puddle reflecting and shallow sole-stomped-n-splattered I          Can not help but mis   s      the piece( is ) of me that mattered less than the least of my worries and the old black boot             with  a                hole                                                  the one that is always waiting to.                                                                                                           .                                                                                                           .                                                                                                            drop.                                                                                                                                                                                                               I Am                                                                           still                                                                      here                                                  hoping                               inre               verse                          It all fits                                               the tailor-made addendum but it doesn't                                      the sedentary splendor change                                                 the worn out agenda of yet another loop of the clock fomenting a grand sutuREDness rending a torque of tendencies to ward off the subversive inertia of idle thoughts—cum—wishes the edges of that cloud grapple with dissolution and the shaping of my                                          own                                                 periphery                                            sic         [i]magination                                                                                   The interior storm has come and gone replaced by a wretchedly anxious calm I then wonder if these tempests are what is… or just a fallway of mirrors I pass through in a tumble down some hole feeling it’s too late to know if I will ever be whole Alas, another looking glass I have been cut up too to see the half emptiness of ours in the hour glass timetumbling down the singularity of How are we? Relatively bleeding Speaking of self shred- ding dingbats-in-the-belfry A  f  r  a  y e d  address of questioning covered with s-t-i-t-c-h-e-s in this                                               fourth                                        dimension saves what? 9 lives? No rhyme--no reasoning with me                                  …I guess my wounds are dressed but only it will tell                                                                                           (What is real?)                                  (so obviously rhetorical) it marches on and it can’t be stopped but it’s of the essence and they say it will heal All wounds and I say when and how and isn’t now all I have to be? wound up again I see... And then be left to the present tense out of it, Up against it. Who the **** knows? said the Emperor I (in third person disguise) Wearing nothing (He supposes) Nothing But being                   but... The scars Uncovered for the seeing Being what scars are Are they something... Symbolic?  Systemic? Sympathetic? That makes seeing is believing Real for me, Or, for us all? Is Being Beingness Or is it Meaningless in a...life… S P A                                             Not evolving as fast           As semiotics                       Or sentient Robotics For the rest Of us To be Sure that we are Individual Beings at all? What? Time’s up?                          At least for the                                               Time being…                                                                      Nothing to worry about...
swanswart
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 4:24 PM UTC
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