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"airless" poems
it is my birthday. but the world has long disowned me. honestly--I ask--why do I bother? as there must be something there for me--out in the viscera. for I, am still here. it is my birthday. but the public has long shunned me. faces thick as bedrock and eyes as dull as mint wrappers. and they use sound to blind them. it is my birthday. and no one seems to help. for it is not always happy to know, you're one day closer into the arms of the cease-r. it is my birthday. and words rule no meaning. for no one listens to me. and no one hears what I'm hearing. it is my birthday. and my marrow weakens as I breath. but bones sleep with welded lips 'neath the coat of earth. and--with shame--I shall, too, be nothing but empty research. it is my birthday. and I force myself to nature. O sand, is it true they pick you up and throw you in the wind? O sea, is it true you get stuck in the mouths and stomachs of the young? O hair, is it true you scream when the air beats you? but I don't hear--and I know many. it is my birthday. and I breath false air. is it true the ones that speak ill are on their death bed? is it wrong I wish for them to speed up time? is it wrong I point the reaper in their direction? so I needn't worry of their illness spreading to mine. it is my birthday. and we are all gathered for tea. the masochists sit by the sadists; that's the rule, so the sadist may draw that ball-point pen deep along their slate skin--and whisper the names of forgotten authors, so they may both moan with delicious harmony together--for two presents in one. it is my birthday. and the masochists ask me to join. they write each other's eulogies and revise--revise--'til there are none. it is my birthday. for now you know not, of what I wish, but what I need, a master. for I am not one. it is my birthday. and not all wishes deem true, for it seems no one cares of my words--my work--my blood--my tears-- a hymn to whomever it may concern--have you no mercy? it is my birthday. and I have not found them. I have not found the right. for only airless voices with no mouths, eyes that wish for many more, and souls that have lost time have found me. and I am one of them. and 'neath my heart, I always will be. for it is my birthday, and wishes don't come true.
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Jun 19, 2016
Jun 19, 2016 at 6:57 PM UTC
Birthday.
it is my birthday. but the world has long disowned me. honestly--I ask--why do I bother? as there must be something there for me--out in the viscera. for I, am still here. it is my birthday. but the public has long shunned me. faces thick as bedrock and eyes as dull as mint wrappers. and they use sound to blind them. it is my birthday. and no one seems to help. for it is not always happy to know, you're one day closer into the arms of the cease-r. it is my birthday. and words rule no meaning. for no one listens to me. and no one hears what I'm hearing. it is my birthday. and my marrow weakens as I breath. but bones sleep with welded lips 'neath the coat of earth. and--with shame--I shall, too, be nothing but empty research. it is my birthday. and I force myself to nature. O sand, is it true they pick you up and throw you in the wind? O sea, is it true you get stuck in the mouths and stomachs of the young? O hair, is it true you scream when the air beats you? but I don't hear--and I know many. it is my birthday. and I breath false air. is it true the ones that speak ill are on their death bed? is it wrong I wish for them to speed up time? is it wrong I point the reaper in their direction? so I needn't worry of their illness spreading to mine. it is my birthday. and we are all gathered for tea. the masochists sit by the sadists; that's the rule, so the sadist may draw that ball-point pen deep along their slate skin--and whisper the names of forgotten authors, so they may both moan with delicious harmony together--for two presents in one. it is my birthday. and the masochists ask me to join. they write each other's eulogies and revise--revise--'til there are none. it is my birthday. for now you know not, of what I wish, but what I need, a master. for I am not one. it is my birthday. and not all wishes deem true, for it seems no one cares of my words--my work--my blood--my tears-- a hymn to whomever it may concern--have you no mercy? it is my birthday. and I have not found them. I have not found the right. for only airless voices with no mouths, eyes that wish for many more, and souls that have lost time have found me. and I am one of them. and 'neath my heart, I always will be. for it is my birthday, and wishes don't come true.
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# *Hanging like a scimitar suspended in the sky, the moon beside a gleaming star is pleasing to the eye. How desolate, this satellite in airless ebon space and yet, from here ‘tis beautiful filagree & lace.* #
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Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 at 8:16 AM UTC
Filigree & Lace
What might it be that doesn't let me compete to three verses ? Perhaps it is that I tend to write longer poems, perhaps the lengh shouldn't matter so much as the message is carried through. From mind to heart, then to ones soul I try to reach out with no goal. Yet am beaten, brought back down, by three verses which show up with such malice, ominous, threatful aura, they have approached me. I pretend not to mind, I pretend not to have seen it, yet the simple, silly, broken stream in my thoughts has already engaged it. So that it once again, cannot repress, envy on such a level. My writing style might have been through changes, might have come to a disliking to those who prefer a clear, structured, yet well recorded, beautiful and magnificent rhyme pattern. That should surely catch one's eye, perhaps fill them with glee and bliss, happy thoughts that they would miss once they are gone. But no, I cannot turn, this path was chosen, locked, destined to be walked upon on an journey which has become endless, by time which had stopped passing anymore. So now it became unrecognised, forgotten, left in an abyss without any light to expose it to the world outside my head. Such is the fate, which I will gladly bear with, for this, has been a  route, from which I learn and educate. So go ahead, you can take my flame thrice, even if I might not be able to burn this image into your eyes, this ember, about to go out from the cold, windy, airless area, will only burn brighter. As it rises from the ashes and yet again, goes ablaze ~ Umi
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Feb 8, 2018
Feb 8, 2018 at 6:55 PM UTC
Despair
What might it be that doesn't let me compete to three verses ? Perhaps it is that I tend to write longer poems, perhaps the lengh shouldn't matter so much as the message is carried through. From mind to heart, then to ones soul I try to reach out with no goal. Yet am beaten, brought back down, by three verses which show up with such malice, ominous, threatful aura, they have approached me. I pretend not to mind, I pretend not to have seen it, yet the simple, silly, broken stream in my thoughts has already engaged it. So that it once again, cannot repress, envy on such a level. My writing style might have been through changes, might have come to a disliking to those who prefer a clear, structured, yet well recorded, beautiful and magnificent rhyme pattern. That should surely catch one's eye, perhaps fill them with glee and bliss, happy thoughts that they would miss once they are gone. But no, I cannot turn, this path was chosen, locked, destined to be walked upon on an journey which has become endless, by time which had stopped passing anymore. So now it became unrecognised, forgotten, left in an abyss without any light to expose it to the world outside my head. Such is the fate, which I will gladly bear with, for this, has been a  route, from which I learn and educate. So go ahead, you can take my flame thrice, even if I might not be able to burn this image into your eyes, this ember, about to go out from the cold, windy, airless area, will only burn brighter. As it rises from the ashes and yet again, goes ablaze ~ Umi
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Heee! Heee! Hooooooo….. Well, Hello, lovebirds…making love are we? One on top of the other still with flesh and organs all intact and making all sorts of crude noises and getting into this messy business – getting your bed sticky and wet with sweat; ah, you beings of flesh and blood and ecstasies unlike me just bones and a mere ghost me now living lonely and in airless worlds sent there by you my wife under that man and you the man who helped poison me - now you are over my wife and you raise your **** to the gods Hheeee…heeee….heeee… Heee! Heee! Hooooooo….. Well, Hello, lovebirds…making love are we? I’ll be back every time the two of you fornicators make love in my bed – shame on you, you murderer; you took my wife, my home –and can’t even afford to buy a new bed; and you even use the condoms I left in the wardrobe... Heee! Heee! Hooooooo….. but I’ll be back every time the two of you close each other like two palms raised in prayer ; and I’ll pull the mosquito net down a bit and peer in to see the two of you naked in bed and I’ve got a bony tongue long enough to lick the both of you!- and to see me with my horrendous eyeballs your phallus will shrink immediately; and that woman, my former wife and eternal betrayer, who mixed poison into my rice and shrimps - every time she sees me, in her shock and fear she’ll **** you out of bed, every time for sure... Heee! Heee! Hooooo…. Well, Hello, lovebirds…making love are we? Heee! Heee! Hooooooo…..
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Feb 23, 2011
Feb 23, 2011 at 1:11 AM UTC
Revenge of the Ghost of the Betrayed Husband
Heee! Heee! Hooooooo….. Well, Hello, lovebirds…making love are we? One on top of the other still with flesh and organs all intact and making all sorts of crude noises and getting into this messy business – getting your bed sticky and wet with sweat; ah, you beings of flesh and blood and ecstasies unlike me just bones and a mere ghost me now living lonely and in airless worlds sent there by you my wife under that man and you the man who helped poison me - now you are over my wife and you raise your **** to the gods Hheeee…heeee….heeee… Heee! Heee! Hooooooo….. Well, Hello, lovebirds…making love are we? I’ll be back every time the two of you fornicators make love in my bed – shame on you, you murderer; you took my wife, my home –and can’t even afford to buy a new bed; and you even use the condoms I left in the wardrobe... Heee! Heee! Hooooooo….. but I’ll be back every time the two of you close each other like two palms raised in prayer ; and I’ll pull the mosquito net down a bit and peer in to see the two of you naked in bed and I’ve got a bony tongue long enough to lick the both of you!- and to see me with my horrendous eyeballs your phallus will shrink immediately; and that woman, my former wife and eternal betrayer, who mixed poison into my rice and shrimps - every time she sees me, in her shock and fear she’ll **** you out of bed, every time for sure... Heee! Heee! Hooooo…. Well, Hello, lovebirds…making love are we? Heee! Heee! Hooooooo…..
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Every brush is a first as a spark to a fire; though the ashes still fall from limb and leaf, each blaze sizzles an original melody: forever unique and soulfully sole. A delicate comfort envelopes me, wreathing my pieces with a gentle autumn breeze, mending me whole when I was never broken. Her ambiance dances as rays of shattered moonlight, slipping beneath a sky of the arctic dawn. She gathers my fragments, even when they had never been chipped away. I lay unprotected, yet entirely safe. She bends until the space separating us is airless with tender yearning. I taste a thin sea-foam of maple sugar. Dyspnoea remains fluid in our slumberous desire. When I close my eyes, submitting to the quiet rush, I am welcomed by an island universe. Stardust spirals as the cosmos beams above our heads. A sylvan petrichor swirls about the fall as I am consumed with pure euphoria.
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 11:29 PM UTC
Euphoria
in a dark of frenzy it boils up inside until summarily and inexplicably see the colour between brown and blue more than see it, immerse myself in it swimming slowly in its clouds see the colour between brown and blue everywhere votive candles light the colour between brown and blue with slender tapers that touch a life any life, your life casting strange shadows, loose shadows between the colour of brown and blue children swarm, children with bright white starvation hair, children with hands like small worn mittens who raise red swarms in hot worn out death laden dust dust that cauterizes the nostrils with the stench of penurious insanity the colour between brown and blue that inveigles a purchase of flies bottle blue, black blue, green blue, swarming blue, swirling whirling blue a black and blue confetti of flies then the sudden zero of the colour between brown and blue hair raising, command faith willed, willing, mumbling, murmuring the excitement of writing between the colour of brown and blue trees shake and tremble words regurgitate themselves like hot food, the bark, write now fully electrically charged seized by the colour between brown and blue forget everything else, write, write more, more, write trembling with sudden shudders of merciless vowels, madness penurious pencil moves across, demanding paper pushing worn words, worthy words whittled by use words not yet written, words of wonder oh what words beautiful, baffling,baleful, words with beastly beatitudes, words that conjure the mind words between brown and blue that leave you skinny like a stray dog words so demanding leave you shut up in an airless abattoir of high energy and low residue the colour between brown and blue where everywhere is everywhere else touched by the flames of the colour between brown and blue
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 11:01 PM UTC
the colour between brown and blue
in a dark of frenzy it boils up inside until summarily and inexplicably see the colour between brown and blue more than see it, immerse myself in it swimming slowly in its clouds see the colour between brown and blue everywhere votive candles light the colour between brown and blue with slender tapers that touch a life any life, your life casting strange shadows, loose shadows between the colour of brown and blue children swarm, children with bright white starvation hair, children with hands like small worn mittens who raise red swarms in hot worn out death laden dust dust that cauterizes the nostrils with the stench of penurious insanity the colour between brown and blue that inveigles a purchase of flies bottle blue, black blue, green blue, swarming blue, swirling whirling blue a black and blue confetti of flies then the sudden zero of the colour between brown and blue hair raising, command faith willed, willing, mumbling, murmuring the excitement of writing between the colour of brown and blue trees shake and tremble words regurgitate themselves like hot food, the bark, write now fully electrically charged seized by the colour between brown and blue forget everything else, write, write more, more, write trembling with sudden shudders of merciless vowels, madness penurious pencil moves across, demanding paper pushing worn words, worthy words whittled by use words not yet written, words of wonder oh what words beautiful, baffling,baleful, words with beastly beatitudes, words that conjure the mind words between brown and blue that leave you skinny like a stray dog words so demanding leave you shut up in an airless abattoir of high energy and low residue the colour between brown and blue where everywhere is everywhere else touched by the flames of the colour between brown and blue
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I am a white, Jewish girl from Florida. Hit me. Hit me with your white girl jokes, Your Jewish American Princess stereotypes. I will giggle and squeal right along with you. Because yeah, I do order white chocolate mocha frappuchinos from Starbucks, I Instagram pictures of my nails, I take selfies, whiten my teeth, straighten my hair, Shop at Forever21 and drink Naked Juice like it is my job. Yeah, my daddy buys me things, I don’t pay for my data plan, There’s no way in hell I would drive a sedan, I wear Nike shorts and avoid any nearby cameraman, And let me tell you, I love jamming out to old school Britney Spears. Hit me one more time, because none of that means I am any less intelligent, Any less diligent, Any less likely to face judgment Than any other slice of diversity around me – I am a white, Jewish girl My nose is not its own cartoon, I eat bagels (but I absolutely hate lox), I’m not tan or even the least bit tinted, And god knows I don’t wear Uggs. Tell me I need to get married young, Major in business, Wear clothes that leave me airless, Get some of that European gracefulness, But don’t tell me I’m dumb. Don’t tell me I’m not thoughtful. I’m a white girl. Take a glance at my resourcefulness, Understand my goals of being ambitious, Get rid of your own stereotype-inducing cockiness, And notice me in all of my flawlessness. Because I am a white girl, And I am unique, strong, inventive, Empowered, passionate, adventurous, Indomitable, unbeatable. I am an individual – Not part of some whole that you put me in to stabilize your mold, Not the example of a societally scatterbrained ***** meant to be your centerfold,   Not a previously worn-out piece of clothing thrown to the gutter unsold, Rather a human being of my own rules and my own morals A human being with ideas and intelligence and power, A white, Jewish girl, A person.
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM UTC
White Girl
I am a white, Jewish girl from Florida. Hit me. Hit me with your white girl jokes, Your Jewish American Princess stereotypes. I will giggle and squeal right along with you. Because yeah, I do order white chocolate mocha frappuchinos from Starbucks, I Instagram pictures of my nails, I take selfies, whiten my teeth, straighten my hair, Shop at Forever21 and drink Naked Juice like it is my job. Yeah, my daddy buys me things, I don’t pay for my data plan, There’s no way in hell I would drive a sedan, I wear Nike shorts and avoid any nearby cameraman, And let me tell you, I love jamming out to old school Britney Spears. Hit me one more time, because none of that means I am any less intelligent, Any less diligent, Any less likely to face judgment Than any other slice of diversity around me – I am a white, Jewish girl My nose is not its own cartoon, I eat bagels (but I absolutely hate lox), I’m not tan or even the least bit tinted, And god knows I don’t wear Uggs. Tell me I need to get married young, Major in business, Wear clothes that leave me airless, Get some of that European gracefulness, But don’t tell me I’m dumb. Don’t tell me I’m not thoughtful. I’m a white girl. Take a glance at my resourcefulness, Understand my goals of being ambitious, Get rid of your own stereotype-inducing cockiness, And notice me in all of my flawlessness. Because I am a white girl, And I am unique, strong, inventive, Empowered, passionate, adventurous, Indomitable, unbeatable. I am an individual – Not part of some whole that you put me in to stabilize your mold, Not the example of a societally scatterbrained ***** meant to be your centerfold,   Not a previously worn-out piece of clothing thrown to the gutter unsold, Rather a human being of my own rules and my own morals A human being with ideas and intelligence and power, A white, Jewish girl, A person.
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Women are born with heavy feathered wings Hands that hide starlit craters Celestially they spin in infinity and find each other Stroking the softness, in awe at the wonder of the unashamed mystique That perpetuates newly hatched faces A world without the incessant need for reassurance Which towers intimidatingly over the forest border Small ordinances that keep themselves airless No longer striving for the greater force of flight Clipping away their feathers with garden shears, hosing down the blood Tuscan architecture abandoned countless ages ago Ancient in idea and aesthetic I’ve wandered many miles to reach such exotic visions that have been dead for so long The heads of kings lined up on the edge of a waterfall Their bodies still holding onto the swords they clipped their wings with long ago A little further, a river emerges and spills cold water from the azimuth of God There was a communicator present at the time of cleansing, unbeknownst to me To accept ones sins is to be cleansed of them, don’t you agree? He asked this with shaking shoulders, his robes unraveling to reveal the scars on his chest One for each pectoralis I looked away in tragedy I enter the wooden gate, into the Macedonian fortresses of old My torso has been replaced with a harp, which I feel these princes pluck so sensitively I hear the timber echo throughout my chest and vibrate in my throat My back has merged without consent to a beast that bends backwards The harp strings have been torn I am now mute Raising the weary head of the sleeping dog and the sleeping disdain I slept in an isolated piece of land untouched by human hands And sank into the forest floor In which the grass and all living creatures decided I had left the physical form My eternal resting place
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 5:54 PM UTC
Charcoal Feathers
Women are born with heavy feathered wings Hands that hide starlit craters Celestially they spin in infinity and find each other Stroking the softness, in awe at the wonder of the unashamed mystique That perpetuates newly hatched faces A world without the incessant need for reassurance Which towers intimidatingly over the forest border Small ordinances that keep themselves airless No longer striving for the greater force of flight Clipping away their feathers with garden shears, hosing down the blood Tuscan architecture abandoned countless ages ago Ancient in idea and aesthetic I’ve wandered many miles to reach such exotic visions that have been dead for so long The heads of kings lined up on the edge of a waterfall Their bodies still holding onto the swords they clipped their wings with long ago A little further, a river emerges and spills cold water from the azimuth of God There was a communicator present at the time of cleansing, unbeknownst to me To accept ones sins is to be cleansed of them, don’t you agree? He asked this with shaking shoulders, his robes unraveling to reveal the scars on his chest One for each pectoralis I looked away in tragedy I enter the wooden gate, into the Macedonian fortresses of old My torso has been replaced with a harp, which I feel these princes pluck so sensitively I hear the timber echo throughout my chest and vibrate in my throat My back has merged without consent to a beast that bends backwards The harp strings have been torn I am now mute Raising the weary head of the sleeping dog and the sleeping disdain I slept in an isolated piece of land untouched by human hands And sank into the forest floor In which the grass and all living creatures decided I had left the physical form My eternal resting place
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In the searing airless midsummer- Clockwork morning rewinds cobalt into a bleeding orange yolk dripping across the canvas of the world. Sky, turn the colour of dreams. Heart, turn the colour of love- I’m posed over a skyscraper Because I wanted to touch the stars. Because I wanted to touch you. There’s a beauty found in the smallest spaces Gaps in your heartbeat, getting your toothbrush mixed with mine Honey-lemon on my tongue So maybe you loved me, but not in a way I comprehended I’m thinking of your lips, your eyes and the way you said goodbye- The word wrapped around your tongue like a prayer. Pink bleeds into violet and it looks like the 5 a.m. Berlin skyline might tear itself apart, like a heart bursting or a car crash. So it’s dawn. So I’m inconsolable. And if the angel sun sets, then so be it.
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Oct 20, 2018
Oct 20, 2018 at 10:44 PM UTC
Litany in Early Mornings
Muck bit her ivory nightgown, as if earth hungering after her...the delicate collapse of a napkin,she. Hours poured atop her head, her shaggy, silvery mane suspended--its reluctant bounce captured at midpoint...as a spiderweb under ultraviolet light. Desert sands lost in contemplation, reminiscent of her flesh--divulge her core as she sleeps in a fetal position. Her body spasms awkwardly...its will visibly slowed from initial motion. As the paralysis experienced by prey amid the astral annals of nightmares. She'll rise into that shine, wonder at the nightmare's symbology...talk to her garden--whilst thinking of her time to come. Silkworm breached the parcel of time, its cocooned inertia coarsed through the opalescent eye of God to Godhood. Of time's ruination redeemed in a solitary work...cupped airless the unbridled form of a trapezist spent itself. Opened and closed somersaults atripped a piece of said space... nothingness regenerated to move, to take step of itself. A self-argumentative abstraction glowed...undid its silken flag-- firmly planted in an undiscovered region...her time come.
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Nov 22, 2011
Nov 22, 2011 at 7:45 PM UTC
Muck Bit Her Ivory Nightgown
herein lies common fault - loosely hanging on a speculative conjecture      than exact detail. mind's prison- asylum. you go in to see furtive showcases of the many names walking without faces. you went in without invitation. only or abstract solicitation. there is something that sinks deeper than marrow, blows colder than December winnow, something that burgeons beyond naked sense. inside this lair, conflated you are with bent question marks to their distinct, curved smallnesses. you peek into the window of my eyes and inside this airless vault, we are both heavy with staring at each other dripping and bare-all, yet this rigmarole of eyes contain their visceral silences still. i stripped them all of their voices and they only look at each other with onerous eyes, pondering about their places, answerless and just whirling in capacitous space --
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Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 3:50 AM UTC
Kafka
At least three times a week Thumps, bangs, a loud crash, Doors slamming, metallic echoes, Bumps, thuds, sharp edges, smash I hear shouting, muffled, no words, His voice booms and beats against the walls. Hushed stillness after, as i wait to hear him slam out Clattering feet on the stair to the street Airless, exhausted relief as they fade. Everything echoes in empty impersonal corridors Magnolia walls, polished floors, plain blank doors. The room behind one containing locked fear and silence. I sense it there Hear it breath through the walls It enters my room, far more than the noise A pounding, held in fear So loud that it keeps me awake As I listen, long after. Next morning, so aware of silence, When I hear a sound near my door I jump, as alert as a hunted animal. I hear her heart clench So linked to this stranger by sounds Though I have never imagined her face
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Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 7:37 AM UTC
noisy neighbours
Derail your anxious train of thought Open your inner spirit And enter the dream corridor like a leaf from a tree in its dying season Coma come quiet Airless linger delight Sacrificial pasts give you the power to leave places The world won't get better but you will
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Oct 1, 2024
Oct 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM UTC
The Shaping of a Helpless Joy
Cocoon suspended ‘neath a branch, Out of harmer’s range; Churning in tight quarters then, Awaiting for the change. A cast she’d spun with great detail, To blend into the scene; Remain innocuous, choosing plain, To spend such days serene. This sanctuary has terms of time; Yet flippant so, of sight; Blinded by the darkness kept, May only dream of flight. There, outside this nurturing crypt, Lies futures yet untold; Exploring freedom, airless hours, As wings will then unfold. Alterations to her inner form Complete in all detail; While oblivious to worlds unknown-- Mem’ries without a trail. As perforations tear a fold, In which she will embark, To crystal, glowing cast of moon Within this evening, dark; She wrestles to uncurl her girth And wingspan so anew; That seems so awkward, foreign and Has converted different hue. Now perched upon her drying bed, She fans while instincts try To capture sens’ry explosions That lay to foundling’s eyes. Beyond the glen, a spot she sees; A single glowing blur. Just then each tree bends toward one side, As breaths sweep under her. Weightless, floating, movement new, She tests her longer arms, That reach, manipulating wind, Should quivers strike alarm. The lure of the eerie glow, Possess investigation, As closer toward the light she flies, Embraced with consternation. Near collision with the beacon, She’s halted in mid-air; Translucent strings of sticky form, She didn’t see, were there. She wrestles, tries to free herself, While a shadow looming near Smiles with contentment of His cunning craft of snare. Slowly he approaches while She looks to see his eyes, So vacant of emotive flush, With fear she starts to cry. The octo-legged creature then, Inserts his poisoned quill, As venom circulates her life, He waits until she’s still. Then coils her in silky thread, While dancing ‘bout his room. Tho’ this is of his own design, She returns, inside cocoon. As thoughts of life, such brevity, Released of any pain. She closes youthful eyes at last, And dreams of flight again.
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Jul 4, 2010
Jul 4, 2010 at 6:23 AM UTC
Cocoon
Cocoon suspended ‘neath a branch, Out of harmer’s range; Churning in tight quarters then, Awaiting for the change. A cast she’d spun with great detail, To blend into the scene; Remain innocuous, choosing plain, To spend such days serene. This sanctuary has terms of time; Yet flippant so, of sight; Blinded by the darkness kept, May only dream of flight. There, outside this nurturing crypt, Lies futures yet untold; Exploring freedom, airless hours, As wings will then unfold. Alterations to her inner form Complete in all detail; While oblivious to worlds unknown-- Mem’ries without a trail. As perforations tear a fold, In which she will embark, To crystal, glowing cast of moon Within this evening, dark; She wrestles to uncurl her girth And wingspan so anew; That seems so awkward, foreign and Has converted different hue. Now perched upon her drying bed, She fans while instincts try To capture sens’ry explosions That lay to foundling’s eyes. Beyond the glen, a spot she sees; A single glowing blur. Just then each tree bends toward one side, As breaths sweep under her. Weightless, floating, movement new, She tests her longer arms, That reach, manipulating wind, Should quivers strike alarm. The lure of the eerie glow, Possess investigation, As closer toward the light she flies, Embraced with consternation. Near collision with the beacon, She’s halted in mid-air; Translucent strings of sticky form, She didn’t see, were there. She wrestles, tries to free herself, While a shadow looming near Smiles with contentment of His cunning craft of snare. Slowly he approaches while She looks to see his eyes, So vacant of emotive flush, With fear she starts to cry. The octo-legged creature then, Inserts his poisoned quill, As venom circulates her life, He waits until she’s still. Then coils her in silky thread, While dancing ‘bout his room. Tho’ this is of his own design, She returns, inside cocoon. As thoughts of life, such brevity, Released of any pain. She closes youthful eyes at last, And dreams of flight again.
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It was the first gift he ever gave her, buying it for five five francs in the Galeries in pre-war Paris. It was stifling. A starless drought made the nights stormy. They stayed in the city for the summer. The met in cafes. She was always early. He was late. That evening he was later. They wrapped the fan. He looked at his watch. She looked down the Boulevard des Capucines. She ordered more coffee. She stood up. The streets were emptying. The heat was killing. She thought the distance smelled of rain and lightning. These are wild roses, appliqued on silk by hand, darkly picked, stitched boldly, quickly. The rest is tortoiseshell and has the reticent clear patience of its element. It is a worn-out, underwater bullion and it keeps, even now, an inference of its violation. The lace is overcast as if the weather it opened for and offset had entered it. The past is an empty cafe terrace. An airless dusk before thunder. A man running. And no way to know what happened then— none at all—unless ,of course, you improvise: The blackbird on this first sultry morning, in summer, finding buds, worms, fruit, feels the heat. Suddenly she puts out her wing— the whole, full, flirtatious span of it.
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The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
Airless beauty seen Unimaginable void Stars hypnotic view.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 3:42 PM UTC
Space (Haiku)
Poets are word canaries prepared to die in dark, airless places. Poets are sharp sirens alert, alarmed and warning of the firestorm. Poets can read tree bark calligraphy of knots and scars. Poets decipher codes and shrewd puzzles, bold and enigmatic. Poets ignore the talk of Angels their prophecies and broken promises Poets turn over Tarot cards lay out rune stones, fearless of the future. Poets steer clear of treasure, jewels and golden ingots. Poets climb ladders and stairways cut in rock and stone. Poets can see beyond apple blossom, lilac blooms and dead lilies. Poets find the past in patterns of stars and the orbit of comets. Poets lick salt relishing the wounds and tears. Poets throw life-belts wreaths onto empty oceans. Poets split existence into life and death with nothing between. Poets sift ashes and sand for the rough edges of infinity.
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 1:29 PM UTC
Poets are...
Stress is living life in a self-inflating  balloon From airless to full is the excitement in life Increases in pressure is a tension of colour Stress filled is not stressful in this party of life With survival a knack of avoiding sharp objects And where excessive inflation will inevitably Cause an instant deflation in very small pieces Of the dreams and goals which are life today And like Humpty in pieces these cannot Be easily put back together again.
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Nov 17, 2012
Nov 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM UTC
Stress
How does the moon wax and wane? Who wrote this recipe, what is their name? A legendary greek god or goddess, Shaping the constellations around this lunar bodess? Creating the mysterious opaque hue, Is the sun's light, golden and fierce to lovely and blue, The unique and silent craters and hills, Brought into existence by lazy asteroids who take a spill, The moon's fine white pixie dust, Contributed by comets drawn near with lust, Its spidery web of fear and adventure that draws us near, Is woven of used up dreams leaked out of the creatives' ears, Here are some great wise rocks, Dumped from a bottomless black hole's treasure box, Its stately mountains are sweetly refined, By the artistic alien's touch from another time, And the reverberating echoes of the valleys, regal as Egyptian tombs, A secret ingredient: vibrations of the transcendal omnipresent omniscient aum, The cold still and airless atmosphere, Was perfectly designed by departed souls with a wish to persevere, For the moon's body, they borrowed a part of earth, Promising a silent and knowing angel to guard it after its birth, And the simple motion itself, the motion that makes the creature wax and wane, is made of the tireless energy known as Yin and Yang.
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Aug 22, 2010
Aug 22, 2010 at 10:13 PM UTC
What makes the moon wax and wane?
a human tool, a drawing pencil, shedding snakeskin cells as lead from no. 2 pencil am **** and blood, skin and hairless, all-to-come-to-go, return retuned, at their own chosen speed, gen of regeneration of disrupted oils and heavenly blessings, morning cracks and orifices, filling and emptying obediently, to the tidings of the grieving gravity of my moon’s decisions that govern the lunatic cycle you may kiss me with all your heart unto a robust welcoming, scorn with spittle and deem unfit, I know the difference and it is inconsequential see me as combustible or flat, airless and empty, as a new or a two day old leaking birthday balloon, or a haiku that makes the reader gasp for the reasoning for breathing think of me as a meme who responds to the touch of your nippled forefinger, but my powers are unlisted, therefore unlimited for I am neither cyber or cypher though aesthetically they appear as parts of my humanity, a human machine forever reprogramming to new stimuli sensating, the temperature of your breath, the many odors of you as inputs that bear newborn children notions in my chested gas chambers, the belligerent bellum bellies of my brain my digital describe in thousands of computers do hide, but to comprehend the interacting calculations that are my constancy and my inconsistencies, you must make a tour if you are awake between midnight and dawn when from wells the visions, the fluids - the words are drawn they, the residuals of a man’s *********** with other humans, kin akin, and the thriving discourse between l, man and parental gods of invisible powers, that offers insanity as a viable solution, to cracking the codex human DNA in the vial labelled Medusa Who else?
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Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017 at 10:24 PM UTC
the twelth poem: neither cyber or cypher
a human tool, a drawing pencil, shedding snakeskin cells as lead from no. 2 pencil am **** and blood, skin and hairless, all-to-come-to-go, return retuned, at their own chosen speed, gen of regeneration of disrupted oils and heavenly blessings, morning cracks and orifices, filling and emptying obediently, to the tidings of the grieving gravity of my moon’s decisions that govern the lunatic cycle you may kiss me with all your heart unto a robust welcoming, scorn with spittle and deem unfit, I know the difference and it is inconsequential see me as combustible or flat, airless and empty, as a new or a two day old leaking birthday balloon, or a haiku that makes the reader gasp for the reasoning for breathing think of me as a meme who responds to the touch of your nippled forefinger, but my powers are unlisted, therefore unlimited for I am neither cyber or cypher though aesthetically they appear as parts of my humanity, a human machine forever reprogramming to new stimuli sensating, the temperature of your breath, the many odors of you as inputs that bear newborn children notions in my chested gas chambers, the belligerent bellum bellies of my brain my digital describe in thousands of computers do hide, but to comprehend the interacting calculations that are my constancy and my inconsistencies, you must make a tour if you are awake between midnight and dawn when from wells the visions, the fluids - the words are drawn they, the residuals of a man’s *********** with other humans, kin akin, and the thriving discourse between l, man and parental gods of invisible powers, that offers insanity as a viable solution, to cracking the codex human DNA in the vial labelled Medusa Who else?
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My companion has no clothes to speak of - no odours, no form, only shape from being born from flat ground - transparent in the round; an open guide that pulls you from the inside to a new plane not seen before - straight thro' any solid door; where is this place I've been escorted to? Encouraged and gently led a long way above my head seems familiar a a long time ago - the pace of life here is very slow, timeless airless, a pale hue - my Fair Isle pullover must be a clue; seem smaller now everyone taller just as ghostly friends dance It appears that I've been given a second chance
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Apr 17, 2016
Apr 17, 2016 at 3:07 PM UTC
LET THE SPIRIT TAKE YOU...............
I never met the Mediterranean neither His bride’s land nor their aquiline nose I saw them as shifting images Like a pair of oily eels. They came with the waves tumbling- Forward from few days journey There was no wave of anger, only an Insecure spring of a shell-less snail. I cannot disremember the salinity, The stretched little boy on its shores, Floating pieces of lost hope And the airless nights that followed. Dear Mediterranean, there are Millions out there, distant kin I don’t want those dead on rectangular- Cement slabs, bring them alive!
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 12:46 AM UTC
Dead bodies of Mediterranean
If I should fall a thousand steps into your arms, will they not wait? For I let not Cassiopeia move beyond her throne to encroach my bed.                                        Let gravity seek its master upon my feet and warm itself in my slippers, carry me through curtains and clouds of deceit to reach a haloed moon in an airless night. If I should wait a thousand years for a single step into your arms, will they not open? For I let wide the gates and fiery the oil to relinquish the kingdom and forge against the current into the quiet distance.
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Apr 14, 2016
Apr 14, 2016 at 12:38 PM UTC
beyond vanity, beneath pride
The wood was beneath, warped With age, as the worms crept Falling into the gapping chasm Of petrified air. Ingested upon Shattered bone, was the ragged Wanting beneath. The stone was polished, kept As if newly left. Never was Their needing for never were Clothes tattered, they dined Upon pigeon heart and entails Of pedigree cat. The Woman, of both below and Above, vested wording to the Ever breaking of parched skin and Bone. Those of wood and worm, clawing Ascending through dirt, what was Left of flesh pealed upon roots and Stone, now only ragged cloth and ***** bone. Why must we of the earth suffer, The indignity of dirt while those Above treated differently, we are the same are we not, death is Universal rot. Then those of marble spoke up, You are not like us for we are of Death but we are of flesh, Parched but whole, we are of The clean, while you are of Earth festering and rot. "Silence" "Still your airless voices" "Each has a valid point" "But my children of decay let me explain" My children of earth you exhume Yourselves each day, this shows Strength for the journey you take, Hardening you resolve. You are neither filth or below, Your strength is what others Should look up to, you are pure Of the mortal coils of flesh you Are flawless in death. My children of stone, what can Be said,  you cling to life, but That time has pasted, you Linger upon flesh that is but a moment from dust. Time in earth has made your Brothers and Sisters strong, While yours are weakened The weaknesses of above, my Commands are simple their Must never be two, death is Singular we decay as one. What was pasted, those of marble Stripped of parched decadence, They were now pure as those below. Feast as others on that which crawls Nourished by mother earth. The woman of bone, wood and stone, Was  a fair keeper and the only Marble that graced was that which Named those who slept below, They were pure of mortal coils They where the dead of bone.
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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 8:31 AM UTC
The Woman Of Bone, Wood & Stone
The wood was beneath, warped With age, as the worms crept Falling into the gapping chasm Of petrified air. Ingested upon Shattered bone, was the ragged Wanting beneath. The stone was polished, kept As if newly left. Never was Their needing for never were Clothes tattered, they dined Upon pigeon heart and entails Of pedigree cat. The Woman, of both below and Above, vested wording to the Ever breaking of parched skin and Bone. Those of wood and worm, clawing Ascending through dirt, what was Left of flesh pealed upon roots and Stone, now only ragged cloth and ***** bone. Why must we of the earth suffer, The indignity of dirt while those Above treated differently, we are the same are we not, death is Universal rot. Then those of marble spoke up, You are not like us for we are of Death but we are of flesh, Parched but whole, we are of The clean, while you are of Earth festering and rot. "Silence" "Still your airless voices" "Each has a valid point" "But my children of decay let me explain" My children of earth you exhume Yourselves each day, this shows Strength for the journey you take, Hardening you resolve. You are neither filth or below, Your strength is what others Should look up to, you are pure Of the mortal coils of flesh you Are flawless in death. My children of stone, what can Be said,  you cling to life, but That time has pasted, you Linger upon flesh that is but a moment from dust. Time in earth has made your Brothers and Sisters strong, While yours are weakened The weaknesses of above, my Commands are simple their Must never be two, death is Singular we decay as one. What was pasted, those of marble Stripped of parched decadence, They were now pure as those below. Feast as others on that which crawls Nourished by mother earth. The woman of bone, wood and stone, Was  a fair keeper and the only Marble that graced was that which Named those who slept below, They were pure of mortal coils They where the dead of bone.
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