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zumee Dec 2018
enemy of my enemy .                    . hiding metachange
information beggar .                    . shadow on a leash
double-threaded thoughts .                    . sinkhole in a sink             
neatly-wrapped expressions .                    . butterflying horses             
      all-embracing circle .                    . meaning flowing free
zumee Jul 2021
You are in a room, inside a house.
The door of the house is closed.
The door of the room is open.
The window of the room is open.

The door of the house is being opened.
You hear the sound of the opening house door
through the window of the room, from outside the house,
through the door of the room, from inside the house,

simultaneously.
zumee Jun 2018
Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing
compared to the pain,
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding
the first one again.
~Piet Hein
zumee Jul 2018
Open conspiracies are born in black light
as a big bang passes a tiny toot

Beyond color-prison shackles
freedom glows a fitter hue
as unreal and exact as foreseen

Baby Buddha in smoothed-out wrinkles
redisappears
backwards
into a moment gravity holds dear
pieces of universe stuck in its throat
giggling to negotiate
the terms of its final rebirth:

The magnetic pole to every needle,
in exchange for time to squeeze out of life
the conditions for running counter-clockwise…

Reality is a plot to overthrow itself.
zumee Jan 2020
unreleased, unaimed
bow undrawn
position unassumed
target unaquired

moments repass
as we unwatch
our arrow of time
approach its mark
zumee Mar 2019
real money is real
and
fake money is fake
because
real paper is real
and fake paper is real
zumee Jul 2018
Semantic stars collude, collide
until the brightest constellation of words
emerges to articulate for life
what cosmology would consequently liberate:
Emancipating sentence served in the unspeakable tongue
Oxymoron’s ill delight

In the pitch-black universe of language
Oxymora hide
the darkest matter
zumee May 2020
it's a tired war
for some raging piece
zumee Dec 2019
I thought of you
so long
the thought grew old
died
of natural causes
zumee Nov 2018
Les mots:
du sucre glace
saupoudré
sur les sommets
de nos pensées.
zumee Oct 2018
If a photo of a falling tree
is posted on the internet
and not a single person "likes" it
was it ever really taken?
We live in an era where the image of a thing has, for all intents and purposes, replaced the thing itself.
zumee Apr 2019
"no gods were harmed
in the making of this universe"
zumee May 2018
1/ Swallow a ripened evening whole.
2/ Regurgitate the metaphor bit.
3/ Masticate on the ensuing puzzle.
4/ Spit out the sparkling bottomless-pit.
5/ Savor the nutrient-loaded symbols.
6/ Plant the jewel in fertile wit.
zumee May 2019
under a roof of logic
Modern Man
cuddles its thoughts
to sleep
zumee Nov 2018
Her face collapsed
Wave of love
into particles
when he asked for a *******.
zumee Apr 2021
can a caterpillar
feel the wings
of future
?
question
bugs a bug
that questions
zumee May 2018
Dingy motel-room-planet
Smartphone cameramen, women,
Children
united in a circle ****:
Lead actress in the center, drowning
in fossil-fuel *******.

Mother (Nature) I'd Like to ****.
zumee Feb 2019
Hidden facets of reality
in the dark of day
to the clicking
of a Soul
Appear
For a blind friend

https://www.facebook.com/facebookcareers/videos/ryo-hirosawa-blind-photographer/2108067789479904/
zumee May 2018
is when you smash a soft-boiled word: Lightly
against a hard substance,
peel off the protective layer of semiotic circumstance,
reveal the gelatinous, inner white sentence,
and take it all with a pinch of salt.
zumee Jul 2020
...what you say is
what you think is
what you love is
what you are is

the breath

of a life
of an act
of a thought
of a word of...
zumee Jun 2019
memorable
are the unrememberable
memories of the heart
zumee Jun 2022
what do you know
about their pain
what do they know
about yours

run through each other
the sharpest love
to find out
zumee Oct 2018
She stands at the window
a fine white stream of goodevil knowledge
trickling down her chin

Lungs heaving against the pane
Lungs heaving against the pain
She longs for a killer breeze
from the die-hard fan.

The yellow-eyed seconds slither out the clock
hi S S ing in rhythm as they crawl.

On the table lies the used core of a once
juicy red delicious
hourglass figure, cyanide hearts and all

She is aware of her own nakedness.

The moon watches on
bleeding silver
from stab wounds by dagger-branches
waiting for a crack in the window
through which to enter

The Tree of Life towers menacingly overhead.

He walks in
AdamAnt
intelligent-designer suit: businessgod attire
briefcase in hand
brief case in point

He knows.
She knows.
Time knows.

An Electrified goliath stirs in the depths

The Ego awakens
lifts its rod
beckoning to the waves of children behind it,
parts the folds of red sea
charges head on.

It rides long and hard
hooves pounding the riverbed
Ready
to pull out on the other side

But the branches find their crack.

The Enraged goliath stumbles
suffocating
Ego trips
relentless walls closing in,
It goes under in a seizure
frothing at the mouth
drowning
as its children swim.

Time holds the twosome breath in its constricting grip
Tree binds Life inside a cell
at the center of the evolving prison

The pane, reflecting
The pain, reflected
Window souls mirror soul's Window

Branches regain their higher dwellings.

An exhumed goliath stirs
on a distant shore.

She stands at the window
a fine white stream of goodevil knowledge
trickling down her shin.
zumee Feb 2020
comes a time
in every life
when the safest option
is to risk it all
zumee May 2021
"On our planet counting matters
numbers over meat
Information lives in houses
people on the street."
zumee May 2019
Last night
I had a dream
that I woke up
from this one
zumee May 2018
In order to become
the next Big Thing
one must first
Give up being a person,
devolve into a thing.
zumee Feb 2022
once upon a time
there was the future
zumee Apr 2019
what are lies
if not
sɥʇnɹʇ ƃuᴉʎɟǝp-ʎʇᴉʌɐɹƃ
zumee Mar 2019
It hurts
when a heart breaks
but even more
a broken heart
whose shards
shatter another
zumee Nov 2020
1
1
1
1
where seedless gods
grow on trees
of freedom
raging
fruit
hang on
for dear life
crunch    ;    kick
flowing down the schin
of a godeater

forsacral: [for-sey-kruhl]  tbd
zumee Aug 2021
nothing is perfect
fortunately

everything is perfect
unfortunately
zumee Jul 2018
Robert Frost
is quoted to have said:
"Writing free verse
is like playing tennis
with the net down."

I suspect
he never knew the joy
or challenge
of playing tennis with himself
against a wall.
Shots fired (over the net)
zumee Feb 2019
If the road was a woman
he'd settle down and marry
zumee Nov 2021
hold life close
hold death closer
zumee Nov 2018
Pale shadows
dangling on a string;
Arm of light connects

For the sake of little i
who cannot look it in the eye
the Sun plays puppeteer.
zumee Jul 2018
Open your ears
Listen to the sky
on a still night you might hear
The whole note
droning silver
that sits
on a hidden ledger line.
One for the musicians.
zumee Jan 2019
You win it
simply
by playing against yourself
zumee Apr 2019
…………..…to   every....................
……...…poetic   moment………..
……......……..its   angle…………...
……………......of   *******….
zumee Apr 2020
Every master
of the art of losing
was once
a rookie winner
zumee Dec 2018
For a captivating 2nd
the heart thought a thought
the mind couldn't think
God
zumee Nov 2018
God
A hand that thinks
with its fingers
zumee Sep 2021
no matter
which Truth You seek
keep an eye out
for the others
zumee Jan 2020
even a lie
is beautiful
when pregnant
with the truth
zumee Jun 2021
meeting death
on its own terms

with a smiling heart

is to have met with life
on Yours
"Would you be ready to die today?"
is almost a cliche
but...Would you?
and if not, does that bother you?
It should.
zumee Feb 2019
In a river of eyes
Soul bathes
****
zumee Jan 2021
you can read it in a book
you can snort it up the nose
you can hold it to your skin
you can call it on the phone

where did You get your dopamine today?
how the pursuit of happiness is a fancy way of saying drug addiction
zumee Mar 2019
Twin Galaxies to deploy
cosmic firefighters
driving oceans
into the Sun
zumee Aug 2018
Gun in hand
to spill the colored truth
of poet’s own grey matter
Neurons dying to and fro to
figure out
if a stanza suicide is worth committing

Pen, on the other hand
dangles a juicy metaphor
from the *******.
zumee Aug 2018
Sitting on the bus:
A sudden chill down her leg
She panics
for a moment
before realizing
it's summer
And more importantly
the liquid pouch
is in her backpack.
Silver linings.
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