"liquidizing" poems
Symphonic
My fist was first five fingers
Flowing Favonian into the palm of my radiant mother
As cheeky as a sprite, soon I revelled in the
Crisp light of the fridge and all its chilled visitors,
A skin-deep draft last week, a raging harmattan yesterday,
Barren among the fruitless lands of Mesopotamia.
Crawling, my sergeants and I led the way through our childhood fantasies.
Ali Baba's fortress, the ruins of Babylon, and up to the lately perturbed Euphrates.
I dropped my automatic rifle,
hurriedly snatched it up in the unforgiving desolate,
just in time to
narrowly dodge the absent onslaught of enemy gunfire
Only to witness a serpentine strike and an explosive splash
Of metal violating my infantile hand, a hand that was trusted and was caressed
Now merely a bludgeon to satisfy the steel-clawed slash of the shrapnel
A buffer to the skin of my wide-eyed physiognomy.
Waking up in the loose sheets of a completely unremarkable beige bed,
With the deoxygenated breath of the novice surgeon liquidizing in my veins,
It was almost too much to handle (if you'll pardon my pun).
These days it is
The good hand with which I
Uncork, pour, and serve.
It's with the utilizable limb with which I
Ignite, shift, and steer.
It's with my brain that I
seethe
And it's with my stump
That I knock.
Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 12:16 AM UTC
Last night I dreamt her,
I went near
To hold my dear,
And to embrace,
Alas, I could see at her face,
For her heart was a sea,
And her eyes its shore,
i could see something more,
Shining crystals of pure sadness,
She was liquidizing her madness,
And the essence of grief,
Was running down the twin springs of sorrow,
I wish, her those springs,
her madness,
her untold lament,
and her sorrow,
all that I could borrow,.
I wish the brine flowing,
through her eyes,
could wash away her rues,
for tears are the summer showers to the soul,
I Wish I could tell her,
love your ‘life’ more and more
Let nothing intimidate you anymore,
i wish i could sail your heart to the core,
love u, dream u more and more.........
Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 9:38 AM UTC