Taylor Rothanzl: Favorites

Jun 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

River Moon Willow

You end my day with the rise of the moon
How I have always thought of you
You sing such sweet melodies that hold me in the dark
Lighting up my solar plexus with an instant spark
Melting everything else around me,
Because in that moment it no longer matters
It all shatters, and I become plastered with emotion
What a magnanimously calming ocean
You give the opportunity to set myself free
To let go of all the things that never have served me
I remember, and I feel it like bliss
I can now understand what you mean by a kiss
Mouth to mouth vibration in the pit of my soul
It had been so long since I last felt this whole
So sing me to sleep in your starry night sky
My moon, my dream, my sweetest lullaby

Jun 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

F-F-Fascist

Jun 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

Ariel Baptista

F-F-Fascist

Fascist fascist
Fascinating
Liberating or degrading
Hangs from single strings
Nothing comes and no one sings
No one laughs and nothing breaks
See the cracks drip down my face

Fascist fascist
Fascinating
Fascinating fascist face
Flash-forward foreshadow
White cold lace
Not as durable as we first thought
But the car is packed
In the parking lot
I light the cigarettes we bought
And now there is no going back
Not back to there
Nor back to that
Not back to night
Nor back to day
Nor back to summers
Far away

Fascist fascist
Fascinating
Forget my fascist family tree
The fascist fascist memory
And moustache moustache damaging
Or fresco firefly reverie
Just tell me that I’m yours
Sign the line
Like you have before
This is where we are right now
Two souls alive
In the empty town
Two souls alive
In the ******* ghost god-empty town.

So, What think you of Whitman?
And what say I of Plath?
I understand all but maybe half
On my greatest finest day
(dearest, how’d we get this way?)
How’d we fall so far from grace?
How’d this canyon split my face?
Maybe it’s the trace trace amounts of fascist.

Fascist fascist
Fascinating
Friday fickle convocating
Tragic talent intubating
All the world smiles, undulating
But in the end
You’re still a fascist.

May 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

Goodbye Kiss

May 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

River Moon Willow

Goodbye Kiss

This wind of jealousy no longer serves me
It breaks me
Divides me in half with myself
Separation locks me out
Pulls me apart
Drags me around
I am not these pieces of doubt
I am not afraid of who I am
I am, and that is enough
Stronger now that I can kiss this feeling goodbye
Jealousy, what a blasphemy
Something now that has nothing to do with me

Jan 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

glorification

Jan 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

Cadence Musick

glorification

the universe splayed its
organs across
the horizon line
specks of morning light
and saturn's rings revolving about
your head,a halo of biblical importance
pretty when i'm high
just like she was when
her flowers blossomed for the first time
and he read the scripture backwards
so he could make love at breakfast
without a sullen jesus
staring down from the rafters

Jan 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

Like Wolves

Jan 2015 Taylor Rothanzl

River Moon Willow

Like Wolves

Blue like the skies among wolves
I howl away the feeling of being alone
My pack waits upon mountains I can not reach

I remember when I used to chase the moon
The biggest drink of water I have ever had
I remember when, and that's why it pains me

I remember the touch of your trance
The sallow of your soul
The fire I would feel in the cold of the night
The colors you would exchange through the eclipse of your kiss
You left me unsettled
With thousands of things like these to miss

Years have passed while I pass in this life

White like the snow that melts under my feet
Washing away this sense of defeat
I will follow the river that flows down stream
Backward reflection of my watery heartbeat

My tummy sits full
While my chest buries me
Back stands straight
Feet kept clean
I will wrestle 'til the end of this lonesome night
Spirit be with me
Kiss me until I explode
Kiss me into infinity
Kiss me until you are apart of me
We, that is what we are
Like wolves on the mountains
Like the moon to the stars

Nov 2013 Taylor Rothanzl

You Are and I Am

Nov 2013 Taylor Rothanzl

River Moon Willow

You Are and I Am

I am only but a fraction of energy

Breathing the same dust of emotions you are

you are and I am

We come from all energies

We absorb what we want

We dismiss what we feel is necessary

We glow, we shine, we consume, we exhale

We are only what we want to be

What do you want to be?

How do you want to act?

Where do you want to be?

How do you want react?

We glow, we shine, we consume, we exhale

These particle will last a lifetime

You are part of this lifetime

you are and I am

The unimaginable

the impossible, made possible,

by you

you are and I am, we

we are one in the same

These particles will last a lifetime

WE

we are one in the same

we are the same

you are and I am

May 2013 Taylor Rothanzl

Lost and Found

May 2013 Taylor Rothanzl

Evynne

Lost and Found

Nothing is ever lost
But rather misplaced

If you are looking
Keep looking
If you are searching
Keep searching
If you are lost
Do not give up hope
For you will be found

If one looks
One can find
If one is lost
One can be found
Again and again

May 2013 Taylor Rothanzl

Two Pairs of Eyes, One Soul

May 2013 Taylor Rothanzl

Evynne

Two Pairs of Eyes, One Soul

He immediately recognized her as a kindred spirit by the way she talked and gesticulated
She was putting careful consideration into what she said and how she said it in an effort to break through her troublesome existential isolation and to bridge those gaps in perception
He found her so intriguing
And compelling
She was someone who seemed to have a great deal of distress when it came to trying to differentiate her imagination from reality
She looked sad
She looked angry
She looked cool and collected
She looked different from everyone else he knew
She could not put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched
She never put on a face for him
Which made him trust her somehow
There was something about her that tugged at his heart from the first moment his eyes met hers

She immediately recognized him as a kindred spirit by the way he talked and gesticulated
He was putting careful consideration into what he said and how he said it
And he was doing it quite well
Her eyes locked to his so easily, she almost felt frightened upon meeting him
But it was exhilarating
He was someone who seemed to hold a great deal of passion within him
Especially when it came to doing what he loved and his life and the people in it
She looked into his eyes and seemed to feel within her own self what he felt within his self
He looked mystical
He looked bright
He looked intense and riveting
He looked different from everyone else she knew
He did not look at her with the same face as everyone else
He looked at her like she was actually there
Which made her trust him somehow
The moment their eyes first met was the moment their souls first touched