"consequentially" poems
i hear your waltz, dear bird.
the soliloquy,
the melodies that pull at the strings holding what’s left
of my heart evermore.
i listen, to the shuffle of your ruffled feathers,
your light feet
dance to the creak of hardwood.
a sonical prison.
as this intrepid cell guard is
fueled by my schizophrenia,
and van gogh like delusions.
none of grandeur.
so here are my ears, one sliced from reality,
the other searching for its vibrations.
each majestic, and just as much
consequentially miserable, piano strike
marks a new set of steps for you.
and although i no longer feel,
nor see, i still hear exactly how you carry yourself.
and from that i draw insane conclusions.
from there, upon just listening,
i can imagine what your ****** expressions are like,
and from your laugh as you dwindle around this penitentiary
like a loose branch amongst gusts of wind
i can tell you’re free.
free to fly. free to feast.
free to find a new mate.
free to watch the world burn
from a bird's eye view.
just as we used to do.
free at last, most importantly from us,
more specifically from me.
and although i no longer
feel, nor see.
i still hear exactly how happy you are.
and that isn’t the most heart shattering aspect of our ordeal,
or should i say, my ordeal, to live with, alone.
because the part that really allows me to carefully and diligently pluck single strands of hair from my head as if i could somehow string out the memory of you out from my infinite depths,
is the fact that i can hear, clear as day,
another bird’s chirp,
another bird’s laugh,
another set of feet, on this waltz you’re on.
and when i say heart shattering,
i hope you hear it break, as the sounds of it
reverbs across this room’s vast loneliness.
oh, where are my van gohg like delusions now?
i’ll continue my search, since now i fully know that
you’re just gone. with the wind.
fly, my dear. and leave me, here.
to die amongst your waltz.
-melancholicreator
Feb 22, 2024
Feb 22, 2024 at 7:26 PM UTC
hapax legomenon “Texas Women”
**(hapax legomenon: a term of which only one instance of use is ever recorded)
(Texas Women: a term of which only one instance of use is ever recorded)**
for
ꏳJ LꂦVꏂ & Cne’
once again, they sweet sweep me off my feet,
carry me to the Court of Finger Wagging,
to be accused of hating and/or loving Texas Women
simultaneously, diffidently, consequentially, unclearly differentially
this is no flower picking exercise, shaking of the head,
“he loves me, he loves me not,” rinse and repeat,
a northern trick to confuse the plano truth,
warns the Judicial Triumvirate
your Honors, I swears,
never wrote those conjunctive words,
Texas, Women,
never ever, until just now,
a genuine hapax legomenon
akin to taking god’s name in vain,
if one dare ever utter these words, and
blows the opportunity,
well, shotgun, if you know what I mean,
one gets only
one chance
so cut me quick to the chase’s conclusion
let’s go to my defense single & singularly:
true, of women I have written, and
“too much,”
is a mere theortical constriction
I love to love women,
and a 57 variety pak is a-ok by me
an inordinate number of poems may have referenced
females hailing from a certain great state,
but never together, side by side, have I ever employed
that phrase, for my imaginations
are more than sufficient
have loved women from many places, too many faces,
some beyond measure, now a forever,
a hoarded memoir unpublishable treasure,
some, it’s true, possessed jeans and a cowboy hat,
and dangerous boots, which one admired from a
goodly distance
they brook no con, tilting their heads quizzically,
there is no maybe with women from this place,
maybe you love us, maybe not, but either way,
there ain’t no maybe in our emotional lexicology!
ok.
the only woman I ever hated is dead and buried,
and yes, I shot her dead for being ornery cactus mean,
so by this roundabout roundup summation,
you may put your head on pillow tonight,
smiling confident thinking that your hapax legomenon,
is deep in the heart of a grown boy hailing from nyc,
still a crazy straight shooter
Jul 11, 2019
Jul 11, 2019 at 1:22 PM UTC
Like Newton noted,
You fell from a tree
Unknowing to mankind that the cannon
consequentially altered the history of man
The first fuse ignited,
Alchemy attempted
a potion of eternal life
We met in the middle of where the munitions fell short
Man could **** with this, I traversed from east to west
Fireworks were what we saw when it was lit
A second shot to the unknown dark sky,
we held hands as our experiment rose high
we thought it failed, until the rainbow blossomed
basking in this majesty, we felt so alive
the third explosion we controlled,
a vehicle to explore the unknown,
it was done smart,
Oblong orbits, long been entangled reduced to a formula of dancing bodies
the future was now and like a rocket
our hearts tested the furthest reaches that man had walked
but it has been years; we tested the infinite black sea
In a moment of clarity, as the propellant exploded
I held onto you and you tethered me
with little oxygen in the air,
I gave you what I couldn’t share
Like weighing scales, balanced fragile
a much regretted fall
Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 4:38 PM UTC
As the helicopter chopped the air I sat there unaffected,
at the table
I elected to carve the roast
giving myself the most of it and putting aside a bit for 'Bob', old now and not a remnant of the dog he used to be
The helicopter bothered me
it flies in each day before our dinner or our tea and sits there in a field beside the house quite elegantly
but what's it for?
the pilot never gets out,never comes to knock on the door
and I wonder what he's waiting for.
I think he may be wanting me to take a ride across the sea and consequentially I am afraid
that one evening when tea or dinner's made there will not be a place set for me.
And in the tower blocks of regret up on the twenty seventh floor,I'll find out what he's waiting for.
I want the elevator to hesitate somewhere between floors two and three
Not willing yet or able to see the future that is waiting for me up on the twenty seventh floor.
I know what he's waiting for
but I'm not ready yet to face my future or regret and in these moments when I let my fears arise
I sometimes cry,my eyes are red
I butter bread and eat my roast and whether or not I got the most is not the purpose of this meal
the real meal is sat in the field,the helicopter will not yield its secrets until I take that trip
until I slip the harness
accept my lot which is always less than what I want but never need and on the twenty seventh floor, I'll find that one door that remains locked shut until I put myself in place before the mirror that shows the face of who I am.
After dinner is done,a slice of bread and jam to calm the nerves and soothe my fevered brow.
I don't know when or how or if I should even try to escape from that which would make me fly into that which I would hope not to see
but the helicopter waits
and I know it waits for me.
Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 11:09 PM UTC
In the month that I popped a pharmaceutical drug to feel better,
I smiled for the first time in months
at a lame joke,
I stopped worrying
about where I was going to be
if the zombie apocalypse was to happen,
I ceased feeling terrified
of waking up to the voice of Joey Ramone
to not want to be or feel anymore,
I wondered how Hemingway felt
as he stared at the glittering city lights of the Rive Gauche,
typing down his dark thoughts,
I walked to the blinking white silhouette of a tiny person across the street,
without hoping that the cars would magically skewer to the side
and consequentially crush my skull in,
I felt my heart enlarging like a balloon, while I stared into
his magnetic eyes,
that remind me of the glistening candlelit lights of Paris
after the war,
I craved the chocolate ice cream
my imaginary little brother bought me
while annoying me,
I listened to the world
and heard it's rambles and jangles
and knew that "every little thing is gonna be alright",
and I watch myself in the mirror
to realize that I
this person staring back at me is a shell
enveloping in the shock at my utter disbelief
that I don't know who I am anymore.
Perhaps somewhere out there,
in a parallel universe,
wherein lies reality or fantasy,
I have already given up
and is watching me here
to mock me.
Nov 22, 2011
Nov 22, 2011 at 1:29 AM UTC
there's probably something
far deeper at work here
something quite important
and worth delving into
to be explored more
thoroughly
consequentially
consciously
instead i'll probably
just end up thinking about
that shoelace in my boot
the one that still
needs to be replaced
ragged and frayed as it is
and i'll wonder how long
i can ignore it before
it finally snaps
and i'm left with
no choice anymore
Jun 25, 2025
Jun 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM UTC
I walked, my feet on air and purposeful
the outlook, heavy rain, and I'd been misunderstood
tears stained my cheeks, I couldn't stop the flow
all seemed lost in argument, I didn't want to go.
So I walk, my mind buzzing with words unspoken
ringing in my ears, promises I thought were broken
everything unclear and totally confused
finding a solution, as my temper fumed.
Treading steps in darkness, not knowing where to go
fusing words together, and piecing what I know
a future ****** by actions in a fit of peak
searching through the remnants left me feeling weak.
I turned, and started walking back
feeling much calmer after searching through the facts
loving someone else much more than yourself
can be consequentially detrimental to your health.
My walk, the air cleared away the pain
my subsiding temper had dried up all the rain
losing what we'd worked for was a heavy price to pay
my therapeutic walk was designed to find my way.
I walked, my feet on air and purposeful
seeing much more clearly now, we both misunderstood
dried my tears realised that both of us were wrong
my footsteps quickened, as I knew where I belonged.
Jul 15, 2015
Jul 15, 2015 at 3:44 PM UTC
I swear,
Gnat
had two moods,
crazy
and angry,
one time
she punched me in the face,
and I smacked her,
and smacked her again
until we were spooning
on the couch
and she cried
as a lavaflow of tears
fell on my wrists.
But then
she had this mood
where she'd
clutch me,
through my ribs
to my heart,
and we'd love each other
so hurtfully
that I'd die
every time she touched me.
She grabbed my heart
so viciously,
and consequentially,
that I just wanted to die
in her fingertips.
Feb 29, 2012
Feb 29, 2012 at 9:15 PM UTC
For a relic of honor
my onward progression and patience has to once again,
gear up for its most lengthy and wearisome, waking battle
Out beyond the center light of diving snow
And spiraling wind
Where shade sustains itself with duplicated shadows around the lake of envy
Under the hood of the forest
that stretches under serene pinholes of sprinkled radiance
Is a rehab for hollow reaches of emptying brittle skin and perpetual bubbling
Inviting fruits along with blackening kindling and timber reduce to ashes returning the cycle
A cure of open arms that create parallel warmth
the genesis of what makes fruit so inviting
If tomorrow opened path for that first step to be taken
Winds would blow so hard:
the hood of shade would push right passed the forest
splitting cracks multi directional into the pinhole for sunbeams
Allowing all collected snow to flood over the lake
Soaking all the wood
Causing any potential burning to be blackened
derailed by a dense heap of soggy innards
Consequentially taking away any chance of warmth
The initial make of comfort that raise up her open arms
Mar 13, 2019
Mar 13, 2019 at 9:54 AM UTC
Ex nihilo: you, refusing to apologize
I wonder
if the world that your eyes violate and consume
withers
painted in the colorless color that comes
from mixing all colors
your color.
I have painted my room with you and now
it is nothing, no
nothing at all
I yawn and I tremble
Consequentially; therefore; thus; and so;
- as a result
the cracked walls speak of (but do not explain)
Sundays
thorned, tragic, unyielding;
sighs of futility writ large
You, on a Sunday
painting the world
in your color
Oct 12, 2016
Oct 12, 2016 at 2:37 AM UTC
How well ******* up is life and the things in it?
I can't believe the love of my life and soul stares at me across a field,
A busy street, a party, at church and I can't go there. Right there where they are ,without the rue of situations past that, have consequentially, rendered something so beautiful and as pure as it it's tainted; passionate as it is deep as a mute and incomprehensible ineligibility.
I could have had the grand kind the kind to end all kinds. Instead, I settled with an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my gut, that I wasn't worth waiting for.
The stars were so cruel. As with all things that glitter, twinkle or shine like your eyes,they seer souls and play favourites. Not that I didn't do well. I did very well, I didn't do deep. Like the kind of deep that travels between our eyes, the kind of heart reverberation that goes beyond soul. I did very well. I am loved and I love; but, there is that chasm sometimes just a shoulder brush away. Always a millimetre times a billion eons away, so close no matter how far, So far no matter how close, all the miracles in the world can't solve it. The devils got his last laugh, and I my last hope. This afterlife better hold its promise, I don't want to face another endless age without you. Its ****** up.
Still, it's perfect in all it's fucked-upness. It has lasted this mortal realm far longer than most could ever fathom, and I am perfectly content in it as long as the deep still passes through our eyes across a field, at church, a party or across the street.
Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 7:56 AM UTC
*The best decision I'd ever made
By far, Loving you is
The pain that I know for sure will fade
I am ready to kiss
Until you're consequentially ready
I am willing to wait
To have each other for eternity
I'm hoping for our fate,
No trace of distress I surely knew
As we walk through the night
Having no other reason but you
I always come home blithe*
Jul 8, 2015
Jul 8, 2015 at 2:24 AM UTC
How oft
are thoughts
(of mine) of you?
I confess,
once with every breath
but twice for every whisper
Your image fills my head
consequentially, my days.
All eyes are yours.
I want every path to be paved in cobblestone
in hopes that i will find your bare feet there.
When my thoughts stray
it is to you and
where i will stray
(with you)
Once sleep comes
I know I dream (of you)
and you are with me
when you aren't near me.
Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 1:46 AM UTC
vaporous waves
weave within
the sheets
ethereal
stirring shades
of temperate
counter-balance
immovable
displacable
cadences of
color-bound
interpreted
reverberations
obfuscate
the moon
consequentially
like ripples
in a mirror-lake
Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 8:51 PM UTC
All my life I've searched for love-
It is only in the recent years I have
ceased searching and continued working
on myself that I have had many
opportunities surpass me by.
I am not a slave to the love I give
nor am I slave to the love that
is given.
I will not succumb to a perpetuating
misogynistic fool that only wants me
because I want what he thinks is real
I am not a follower of faith, nor a lover
or guided by "Gods" misguided ways
You may be offended by this statement
but please remember we are all
individuals and different.
Practicing spirituality in several
different ways.
Each of us with our own opinions
Never forgetting the rhythm of
our heart beats
No opinion nor religion can surmount
the fact that consequentially-
we are HUMAN.
© 2014 Christina Jackson
Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 1:46 AM UTC
i haven't written much these days
because i can't find anything to say
about these dark days or my odd ways
of thinking
in a way that actually conveys anything
better than a blank page would
so, it should be understood that this essentially
is an empty journal entry and
consequentially
says more than i can, today
May 22, 2017
May 22, 2017 at 2:03 AM UTC