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,***how do you know when (a human is too broken?)*** <•> human too broken? like the light bulb, removal from its fixture, a simple shaking revelation of the tinkling filament spent, something that cannot be repaired, the only option is replacement and that makes you cry the empty box of oatmeal raisin cookies, you find secret’d, hid by you, not to be found by you at the bottom of the kitchen garbage, but box betrayal, by the chartreuse tipped box lid sided peeking upwards, asking, silencing screaming, what did I do to deserve this degrading like the blouse now too tight that it brings stares as the buttons strain, unwelcome attention unintended, you know it but still pretend not to see, for you both once loved that silky guise that so heightened the high tender, the match of your pink rose skin letting, no! making your eyes glisten, like broken filament glass, on the sidewalk, recalling the pleasured admiration, rain remembered from the prior priority of a life consisting of only perfect gifts so mean revert to the poseur question; this is how... remove the human from a fixed place, whimpering-threatened, you may hear clear the crackle cackling  of the innard shards against the misperception of a body intact, even if you do, no repair service you want,  can be found, see it nowhere, is it even anywhere advertised? the body presumed intact is secret’d under a tactile coverlet, holey scupperrd holy cuttered so that the cells and bicuspids, the threads no longer function in a tandem, you keep it in the closet closed, in the back, deep hid, where, when it screams why, it can be safe ignored, because  ‘betrayed’ is no longer a word, in your globe's dictionary, the parental controls activated by you to save your own inner child’s unconstrained confusion, it has been removed so the broken glass, the clothes you dressed each other, if not weep-well, well enough hid, the fit is off, the fit is off, the coverlet ripped so bad and neither cares
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 11:17 AM UTC
how do you know when (a human is too broken?)
,***how do you know when (a human is too broken?)*** <•> human too broken? like the light bulb, removal from its fixture, a simple shaking revelation of the tinkling filament spent, something that cannot be repaired, the only option is replacement and that makes you cry the empty box of oatmeal raisin cookies, you find secret’d, hid by you, not to be found by you at the bottom of the kitchen garbage, but box betrayal, by the chartreuse tipped box lid sided peeking upwards, asking, silencing screaming, what did I do to deserve this degrading like the blouse now too tight that it brings stares as the buttons strain, unwelcome attention unintended, you know it but still pretend not to see, for you both once loved that silky guise that so heightened the high tender, the match of your pink rose skin letting, no! making your eyes glisten, like broken filament glass, on the sidewalk, recalling the pleasured admiration, rain remembered from the prior priority of a life consisting of only perfect gifts so mean revert to the poseur question; this is how... remove the human from a fixed place, whimpering-threatened, you may hear clear the crackle cackling  of the innard shards against the misperception of a body intact, even if you do, no repair service you want,  can be found, see it nowhere, is it even anywhere advertised? the body presumed intact is secret’d under a tactile coverlet, holey scupperrd holy cuttered so that the cells and bicuspids, the threads no longer function in a tandem, you keep it in the closet closed, in the back, deep hid, where, when it screams why, it can be safe ignored, because  ‘betrayed’ is no longer a word, in your globe's dictionary, the parental controls activated by you to save your own inner child’s unconstrained confusion, it has been removed so the broken glass, the clothes you dressed each other, if not weep-well, well enough hid, the fit is off, the fit is off, the coverlet ripped so bad and neither cares
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I. Neptune’s Theater A rock spins through the universal tumbler and its warm blue pools calcify as turquoise Neptune in his cloudy blue bath bath builds a lace castle with his fingertips Sculpts a submerged eden of crimson and emerald where painted parrots chat up cardinals butterfly and angel fry sway with wave pulse and foliated coral fingers beckon from arched windows. Neptune’s children are flat and bright, spined and notched free yet entangled in lace mesh ecosystem beneath an array of bioluminescent stars as a gangly pretender watches and blows bubbles. II. Sapien Siege The hot acidic hand of death grasps the mesh rends and tangles the ecosystem shattered reef’s loosed children scream beneath planet’s stars. Butterflies impaled cyanide-swooning damsels mesh-tangled angels hauled heavenward coral to potash, corpses to coal. The pretender to the throne blinks rubs blurry lenses, kicks plastic fins and moves on to the next show Unseeing and unaware of the luminous filament in his wake. Self-appointed divinity, deus ex machina. ******************************************************************************************* Ann says: All of the animal and human characters in this poem (except Neptune and The Pretender) are named after coral reef fish. Coral reefs, one of the most diverse ecosystems, are expected to be largely extinct within one human generation. Deus ex machina is Latin for “God from the machine.” Copyright 2013 by Ann Marcaida.
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Jan 23, 2013
Jan 23, 2013 at 3:43 PM UTC
Children of the Reef
My neck is a nest The warmth in it an ever present creature that Oscillates and breeds and collects And attracts creatures that do not My neck is a nest That doesn't just need to nurture but To be nurtured and Touched and kissed and electrified In order to keep that warmth My neck is a nest That rests on an unsteady beating branch And hangs under a filament-ridden sky Neither of which can ever agree But to disagree on whether Niceness or smoothness or alcohol or hidden agendas Should have anything to do with How the warmth is kept My neck is a nest Full of hatchlings that have already Dropped and soared Dropped and stopped Dropped and swooped at the last second Where they are now I have only an inkling. My neck is a nest That wishes to blend with the Twigs and leaves and eggshells That become it and Be humbly content with who It wants to attract and collect and warm.
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 9:06 PM UTC
My Neck is a Nest
At night-the light turned off, the filament Unburdened of its atom-eating charge, His wife asleep, her breathing dipping low To touch a swampy source-he thought of death. Her father's hilltop home allowed him time To sense the nothing standing like a sheet Of speckless glass behind his human future. He had two comforts he could see, just two. One was the cheerful fullness of most things: Plump stones and clouds, expectant pods, the soil Offering up pressure to his knees and hands. The other was burning the trash each day. He liked the heat, the imitation danger, And the way, as he tossed in used-up news, String, napkins, envelopes, and paper cups, Hypnotic tongues of order intervened.
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Burning Trash
Deplorable and horrible;                 Despicable, abhor-able; It reiterates, evaluates,               Desiccates, and exacerbates . . . It never fails, to fall too short, But always fails as a support . . . In an attempt to be freed, it misleads to bad deeds And creates a hunger -- vacuous,                                Yet, impossible to feed. It chases the light away,                                And it longs to be alone. So I am so ashamed to say,                                That in my skull,                                It found its home. So I'll fight and fight against it, . . . But I'll always lose the battle. It seems that even as I trudge ahead, That somehow I still straggle. It is the artist, I am the instrument. Like a light bulb to its filament. Every day I'm at the bottom, Forced to climb back up the hill again. But I think the day has come . . . When I've finally stopped walking. I've reached a door that can’t be opened, And decided to stop knocking . . . It's me and who I've become; It's my actions and what I've done . . . So, as much as I despise it, It seems my brain, and I, are one.
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Mar 8, 2013
Mar 8, 2013 at 3:12 AM UTC
One
The sun tipping over the horizon Lifts my lids each revolution of this Shady green sphere... And for a few brief seconds The fingers of sleep Drag me back. Warm pressure on my eyes, Pooling, (re)opening them to the last Paradise; The only oasis where your eyes are not closed And your bones are not dust somewhere Mingling with the soil in Pittsburgh. Just the same, I know you're the product now Of some hypnagogic state; Of the last traces of theoretical DMT swirling in my brain As is leaves Morpheus behind in the shadows. You're just the most beautiful hallucination The truth in the chaos of dreams Cluing me into what I've been denying For 13 years. Impossible that I've preserved you better Than any mortician could have In the recesses of my mind You are a perfect replica An unholy copy of the original All creamy skin And ocean eyes, Full-lipped smile tipping somewhere between Arrogance and joy. "I'm gone," you say. "I'm dead." Repeating what I already know "I'm dead, I'm not coming back." On repeat like the worst kind of ear worm; A carousel of sound that dips and weaves through every filament of Unconsciousness. Denial; like reaching out my hands I shove against the reality, against the unreality Against the prison sleep has woven And crash forth Damp and gasping Like breaking the surface once more Teetering over the horizon with the sun Into the waking hell of another day. The carousel makes another revolution. See you on the other side tonight.
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Nov 11, 2015
Nov 11, 2015 at 10:08 AM UTC
The Last Paradise.
A noiseless patient spider, I marked where on a promontory it stood isolated, Marked how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launched forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, Till the bridge you will need be formed, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somwhere, O my soul.
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A Noiseless Patient Spider
It is nothing, a mordant of the soul, an elixir, a panacea, a placebo for my lesions, there in the thistle, grows our drastic garden of red posies and hyacinths, such little things, on the verge, lilting as the decorum begins to bobble and slump sideways, and murmur, on Mondays I can swallow the octave of your absence, tendrils and all, red quince limbs parting from the deluge and in its wake, the wreckage of black pumpkins and purple corn, hanging pendulum at our door, the Autumn lights summon a lavish song to harvest, thirty seven colours in the brocade you gift me, tangled and heavy the years upon my bones begin to spur and flower into cunning disruptions, and stratify upon my body like rinds of ricepaper, vellum for another wish in the complacent burial of mango flesh, listen, as my song liquefies, drowns you, inundates each alveoli, and our love in the swallowing gush, perched, begins to shudder, devoured by its symmetry, stem cells all akimbo in the shallow pitch of days bound in a nostrum of wine and liquorice it is nothing, really, a mordant for the soul, a tulle filament twitching in a raincoat of lightning....
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Oct 21, 2012
Oct 21, 2012 at 4:35 PM UTC
The Biography of a Wish:
Sociopathic spiritualist Confused by this? Ya gettin' the jist Years in a green mist Gorilla ****** at the sight of poachers hi-viz Blatant thievery Gettin' me irate & militant Conductin' information like a cobalt filament Hippocracies imminent If you don't know the deal look at Africa's innocents The future for a fee Monitory Cold as the Chukchi seas If your wonderin' where they be? Let go of Albert Square & check your geography Menace to sobriety Rudarellis playin' tennis with the moods it's supplyin' me Preachin' no class As Hittin' the mirror like the mans buyin' me
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Apr 23, 2012
Apr 23, 2012 at 7:27 AM UTC
Con-fusion.
~dedicated to the old poets here~ the addictive pairing of certain words, a line, a lyric, slap-snapping you to full attention, unfailing decades of instant recognition, an adrenaline + caffeine shot that powers a chance, a tensile injection that causes the lips to commence a new choreography, the fingers to tap, a jumbled, hurried, embattled disorderly mess that regenerates, reformulates, concords into agreement, a harmonic consistency a geometry of many differing angles that equate a hard physical, a soft mentality in a singled work, coexisting in a sacred state of singed confluence, though imperfect, satisfies mathematical boundaries of a random outpouring, crowning the stripe inspiring the spark that finally satisfyingly silences an ignited filament a-glowing for years, that holy happens to cross your antennae, fulfilling the need to honor, the sacred geometry of chance, the honor to need, the joy of saying, at last, this unwritten debt, paid! ————————————————————————- (1) a favorite of many years, a lyric from “The Shape of My Heart” by Sting (2) Dec 3 2020 2:53pm  NYC
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Dec 3, 2020
Dec 3, 2020 at 2:59 PM UTC
“Sacred Geometry of Chance” (1)
I lie strategically in place Innocent framework fused With royal carapace Frail and allknowing fingers clenched and intertwined, Mimicking the honest silver circuit in the night sky As candid as the shore Each slumbered and delicate breath Vitally delivered from those sublime lips Both damp and potent I get a candied wind of An accidental consolation To my crippling worry Sorrowful, I am, my love For eavesdropping, but My reveries are your keepsakes And I, Watching you sleep, carefully In A placid coma, caging waves of covenants And exhaling tokens of a life once dreamt of I envisage the unvarnished truth, your marrow as my sustentation, Your veins, My lifeline Where each filament of platinum and sorrel remain entangled and sprawled in forever, impeccably And how drawn out and vexing My intervals of lingering for you Have been And then you leak a sigh in a dream And exhale a veil of whispers Directly to my ribcage And I simper, cradling you tighter So you can breathe my craving, My contented tribute To my one veritable sentiment. And I seal it all in the midst, Of a drifted and slumbered and deathless Kiss.
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 7:24 PM UTC
007.
I'm afraid.  Simple as that. Just irrational fear. Complex in the cracks. The dark envelops me. Blinding me and quickening my heart. Even though a game, I start to scream. Trying to rip this closet door apart. The tears dampening my face. My breathing changing pace. My mind plays games just like the others. I cant even steady my hands. Then light.  Sweet, forgiving, white knight in the form of a filament. I wipe my face, realizing the blood that covered my fingers. Where was this savior that had been sent? His smell lingers. He stood tall.  Dark. Faceless. His hand brushes my face, My neck, *****  I look up to see a familiar, yet unnamed, face.  His pernicious smirk haunts me. Swift air brushes past my face followed by sharp sting. He leans into me, his lips touching my ear, His tone is sarcastic and grave. "Welcome back, slave"
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Sep 25, 2012
Sep 25, 2012 at 11:05 PM UTC
Fearful Return
Murky water, Depthless mud, Drown by chains, Bound by blood. Onlooker, the key, History, the judge, Neglect, the decision. Doomed to the sludge. Filament of algae, A shaky explanation. The onlooker runs, Blood left to damnation. Onlooker lives, Lacking of blood. Drinking away his memories, Of the murky water, and depthless mud.
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 11:56 AM UTC
The lake
A capricious young mind alive with reveries of vistas and granite hues, enthralling nocturnes and his touch in the night air. Disparate and removed you contemplated the stars, a life lived with arms outstretched beckoning the notional. Beneath the ceaseless sky you yearned for his warmth, to feel your ashen flesh adhere to his every fissure raising your arms to his celestial vantage you beckoned, once more. From the dimming light, above the distant horizon he rose - like the smoke of an ardent fire that resided within, ascending through your being, coming to rest upon your weary head, he suffused each lissom filament with a fragrance, eternal. ©Thomas Gabriel
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Dec 2, 2011
Dec 2, 2011 at 10:41 PM UTC
Ophelia.
Ethereal and Base a harmony so diametric a solid. Wisdom's forgiveness lands to the unyielding new, white spray on black lava, merging elemental minerals in salt water. Life the mediator, yearns for compromise algea harvests sunlight at the hard shore, grows into plants fish munch coral creating sand washing up, a tree's foothold creating soil...   can rock become Earth any other way? Mother's beauty, an unknowable generous smile and confident grace from the sun. Ages sitting wrinkled and depleted to her waist, beauty transforms into unknowable generous laughter alighting graciously from wise eyes, like a flock of Heaven's doves so close to home stirred by her running children: daughter and son. All the while all the yearning is unrequited. For her children, Beauty is vertigo, painful reality rooted to the shore. Eyes long for the horizon, Vision Country between sky holding its breath and water measuring out patience, The heart spills out futile on the crystalline sea, but Sadness, belonging to clear water, lightly buoys lonely Ecstasy, Completes the voyage. The Vision pairs selfless love with unmet desire, opposites' harmony the firmament, but the sound breaks from tension and the echoes fade, and the senses footing gives way; vertigo with dove's wings tied shut. Descending minuscule between dissipation falling through molecules of bliss, and diffusing atoms of despair, to the last remaining positive and negative and the tension's silver thin wire between. It cuts tied wings free, slingshots the dove's soul back up, at the last second, the tension's iridescent thread tangles loosely on her foot. She hurtles back up through the scales of size: Microns, amoeba, minnows, birds, primates, people, over trees, looking down at cities, mountains, yet higher borderless nations, green and sand continents, and again all the crystalline blue seas. The silver filament draws taut, holds the dove's ascent, wings slowing in awe as she views Mother Gaea her intensely brilliant sphere accompanied by vivid tiny stars. in a cold cold soundless night... Grandmother teaching her children to fly; Beauty's yearning realized complete.
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 8:52 PM UTC
Gaea
Ethereal and Base a harmony so diametric a solid. Wisdom's forgiveness lands to the unyielding new, white spray on black lava, merging elemental minerals in salt water. Life the mediator, yearns for compromise algea harvests sunlight at the hard shore, grows into plants fish munch coral creating sand washing up, a tree's foothold creating soil...   can rock become Earth any other way? Mother's beauty, an unknowable generous smile and confident grace from the sun. Ages sitting wrinkled and depleted to her waist, beauty transforms into unknowable generous laughter alighting graciously from wise eyes, like a flock of Heaven's doves so close to home stirred by her running children: daughter and son. All the while all the yearning is unrequited. For her children, Beauty is vertigo, painful reality rooted to the shore. Eyes long for the horizon, Vision Country between sky holding its breath and water measuring out patience, The heart spills out futile on the crystalline sea, but Sadness, belonging to clear water, lightly buoys lonely Ecstasy, Completes the voyage. The Vision pairs selfless love with unmet desire, opposites' harmony the firmament, but the sound breaks from tension and the echoes fade, and the senses footing gives way; vertigo with dove's wings tied shut. Descending minuscule between dissipation falling through molecules of bliss, and diffusing atoms of despair, to the last remaining positive and negative and the tension's silver thin wire between. It cuts tied wings free, slingshots the dove's soul back up, at the last second, the tension's iridescent thread tangles loosely on her foot. She hurtles back up through the scales of size: Microns, amoeba, minnows, birds, primates, people, over trees, looking down at cities, mountains, yet higher borderless nations, green and sand continents, and again all the crystalline blue seas. The silver filament draws taut, holds the dove's ascent, wings slowing in awe as she views Mother Gaea her intensely brilliant sphere accompanied by vivid tiny stars. in a cold cold soundless night... Grandmother teaching her children to fly; Beauty's yearning realized complete.
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Left alone on this makeshift raft, Drifting further into the wake - All I see is darkness... Slowly collapsing upon my bones, Waiting to be resolved - To be encapsulated with meaning, A filament of hope to define our love... Show me my life is not insignificant.
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Apr 29, 2013
Apr 29, 2013 at 9:21 PM UTC
Insignificant
Are you alive? Tendrils tickle the surface And billows Bloom from the core, Ribboning thinner than those things which breach seawalls, Seeping impermeable To flirt with all sides of this vessel. I saw in him the beauty The same as I saw the beauty of suffused ink, mingling In delicate patterns of fluidity and filament. His release quivers momentarily, Hung in fluid stillness, and Flushed with a desire to saturate. In saturation, one may think it Possible to be falling Up through a falling surge. We two coalesce at the bottom.
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Feb 1, 2011
Feb 1, 2011 at 7:23 PM UTC
The Squid
Life’s a trip aint it? Cause I can see myself there. In the courtside of movement with my daughter Teaching her the fundamentals to this foreplay break form we call top rocking See, cause we all started while still in the fetus of knowledge, dance was our way out far sighted to the violence was most important My neighbors enriched themselves a devil’s deal with other advocates Sold their souls to hate, Gun play, drugs, **** and discriminate……tion. Since that first get down on my auntie’s wooden floors, Or since seeing the smooth criminal himself steal the encore, I became the Xerox copy, mirroring my master like a parrot, I studied more and observed a new culture. Not even knowing this family was my narrative teen story. **** I devoured every second. Danced till my body couldn’t stand it. I danced in the light and were steps away from my own shadows. Sometimes the shadows were heavy a filament that needs to be observed and cleansed--- go figure huh A self-judgment clinging to aura. A child crying who felt unloved. A beings dependent on promises from Ones outside self. Suddenly, light shines and the dancer feels the power-- A breath that aligns inside grace. A moment where ones heart expands with love. A moment where a dancer meets melody Hip hip is a masterpiece, hip-hop is you, me, him and her, and because of this masterpiece is a dancer inside of me. His movements created mists around his company, I didn't need to tell hip-hop I loved her. I gave her all my love with this dance.
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Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 3:38 PM UTC
Hip-Hop
Life’s a trip aint it? Cause I can see myself there. In the courtside of movement with my daughter Teaching her the fundamentals to this foreplay break form we call top rocking See, cause we all started while still in the fetus of knowledge, dance was our way out far sighted to the violence was most important My neighbors enriched themselves a devil’s deal with other advocates Sold their souls to hate, Gun play, drugs, **** and discriminate……tion. Since that first get down on my auntie’s wooden floors, Or since seeing the smooth criminal himself steal the encore, I became the Xerox copy, mirroring my master like a parrot, I studied more and observed a new culture. Not even knowing this family was my narrative teen story. **** I devoured every second. Danced till my body couldn’t stand it. I danced in the light and were steps away from my own shadows. Sometimes the shadows were heavy a filament that needs to be observed and cleansed--- go figure huh A self-judgment clinging to aura. A child crying who felt unloved. A beings dependent on promises from Ones outside self. Suddenly, light shines and the dancer feels the power-- A breath that aligns inside grace. A moment where ones heart expands with love. A moment where a dancer meets melody Hip hip is a masterpiece, hip-hop is you, me, him and her, and because of this masterpiece is a dancer inside of me. His movements created mists around his company, I didn't need to tell hip-hop I loved her. I gave her all my love with this dance.
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My Poet: *tho evening draws nigh, on this our wedding day, the stars, guardians of our canopy, reminder twinkle it can never be fully complete, for you always make a moment in time for me, today we wait, synchronizing seconds until both pronounce, I do let my hands, in my tenderest embracing grasp, perforce, when I hold you face, still cannot hold your entirety, for you always make and leave a space for me to seal our universe today, you need me to fill you, so together, ever forward, we will define and explore the edges of our redrawn, now, single unified line, our ever expanding contiguous boundary our blood is not commingled but when our bodies unified, the physics of our conjoining, illustrates that those in our surround of time and space, in the aura we create, not so very great,   and yet our oneness 'tis a shining upon the countenance of our place, a luminous emittance upon this earth when you write your poetry, it always finishes with me, I am the native child of thy words, I am the filament webbing illuminating the spaces between each line but more than this, I am your beginning, you are my destination, together we make, The End they ask me to vow, demand I swear, make promises, certify, preserve, record and store the solemnity of this marriage born, in ledgers of the city, before an invisible god I eschew all this for nothing in life ever guaranteed by words secured, but this I know true* My Poet: *what I shall give to you, and you to us, cannot be spoke, the words, not yet, have we originated for each day will we compose anew, each day, shall be a new combination under new stars, our canopy unfolded, our joining sanctified, by the simple truth of us*
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 11:30 PM UTC
Wedding Vows to a Poet (May 2014)
My Poet: *tho evening draws nigh, on this our wedding day, the stars, guardians of our canopy, reminder twinkle it can never be fully complete, for you always make a moment in time for me, today we wait, synchronizing seconds until both pronounce, I do let my hands, in my tenderest embracing grasp, perforce, when I hold you face, still cannot hold your entirety, for you always make and leave a space for me to seal our universe today, you need me to fill you, so together, ever forward, we will define and explore the edges of our redrawn, now, single unified line, our ever expanding contiguous boundary our blood is not commingled but when our bodies unified, the physics of our conjoining, illustrates that those in our surround of time and space, in the aura we create, not so very great,   and yet our oneness 'tis a shining upon the countenance of our place, a luminous emittance upon this earth when you write your poetry, it always finishes with me, I am the native child of thy words, I am the filament webbing illuminating the spaces between each line but more than this, I am your beginning, you are my destination, together we make, The End they ask me to vow, demand I swear, make promises, certify, preserve, record and store the solemnity of this marriage born, in ledgers of the city, before an invisible god I eschew all this for nothing in life ever guaranteed by words secured, but this I know true* My Poet: *what I shall give to you, and you to us, cannot be spoke, the words, not yet, have we originated for each day will we compose anew, each day, shall be a new combination under new stars, our canopy unfolded, our joining sanctified, by the simple truth of us*
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I don’t want you to go fishing For salmon, when you can get ray; If you’re fast enough, you can shoot – – A hook around a horse’s tail. If you’re patient, You could weave through the jelly’s glow, Glimmering softness through each filament, Calming your senses from morbid to mellow. I don’t want you to go fishing For make-believe, when you know it stings; If you’re strong enough, hold on – – Gills and fins are just as brave as wings. If you’re yearning for more and more, Boundaries are all you’ll see; If you’re ready to stop waiting, Why are you telling me?
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Nov 4, 2015
Nov 4, 2015 at 8:45 AM UTC
Fishing For One
We gave the infant our features; the babe got a bulb nose passed on by its grandfather, jet-turf of hair like a wave of soft sulphur from the other, but the eyes, tungsten grey set in firm lids, burnt out like incandescent light bulbs as it left their filament fingers gasping mine.
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 7:30 PM UTC
Infant
398 I had not minded—Walls— Were Universe—one Rock— And fr I heard his silver Call The other side the Block— I’d tunnel—till my Groove Pushed sudden thro’ to his— Then my face take her Recompense— The looking in his Eyes— But ’tis a single Hair— A filament—a law— A Cobweb—wove in Adamant— A Battlement—of Straw— A limit like the Veil Unto the Lady’s face— But every Mesh—a Citadel— And Dragons—in the Crease—
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I had not minded—Walls
Memories diffuse, like sunbeams glint off a lake, become phenomena, evade the tangible. In unsteady light I see my father rowing toward our favorite fishing cove, the wavelets of our wake real as that late August evening. We bait our hooks, conversation merely phatic communion\ I know he's cheating on Mom. Words anchor heavy. As my face turns into the wind to dry tears without his seeing, questions rise in my throat, like a volcano about to erupt, but I have no voice to ask them. So we sit, dangle mono-filament thoughts in dying twilight. Father and son, brooding statues of Buddha, mute as bullhead on the bottom.
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Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012 at 1:51 PM UTC
Bottom Fishing
Jumping high, She stretched with all her might Fingers passing inches below The first firefly of the night It flew deep into the woods She chased it far into the night But she was not afraid Following that firefly's bright light In fits and bursts, It grew dim, then bright And as it led, she fearlessly ran Deeper and deeper, into the twilight The night grew darker But the firefly brighter The girl ran on as, The forest grew quieter This part of the woods She had never explored "Come follow me, follow me" Her beacon implored She followed yet further The beasts of the forest grew near But still she followed And felt no fear A last turn she was led on, Then onto a beach A pond, long held secret She stopped, flushed as a peach Soon she had to go back With her the firefly stayed To light up her soul And forever brighten her days
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Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015 at 9:29 PM UTC
"Firefly" Collaboration with 'W. Filament'