"minatory" poems
I walk down the street whisked by the fragrant aroma of a ***** floating above the clouds
Encased in venom but dismantled plumes of disembodied hair gave her a shroud
I saw in her minced reflection the swindled lust of a happy conclusion
To years of isolated rebarbative delusion
To serenade with penultimate swaggers as though I have been fully swooned
Too soon to aim my praise at an adoring moon
Tugging on mutual hearts entwined with the summer breeze
Trying to garner the summer heir and the summer flair
A panache to clothe every armed bear, disarmed by a propitiated care
A crisp lament crashes the party as a heckler gouging for blindness
I clinch a ****** anger as a riotous engine crafted from wineskins
Belonging to an ageless agelast scurried in dismay
I warp the warbled marble sleet a craven disarray
Then I clamber, risqué in fleeting moments a criminal repartee
I wallop the emerging consensus as the 16th hands me over dumped tea
And a ****** tree laughs as the whitewashed sanity of sanitarium ******
I swerve away from the indecency of a pepper enclosed in chosen wax
A gibbous shackle crumpled on a concrete semaphore
An erratic blithe minatory metaphor
Saturnine clout sweeps the dusty apron from the desuetude of homespun lethargy
Rampant clovers distilled from a dreamscape a raspy sea
Trespassing whisper surmounts the lambent alpenglow of a newborn sun
A sleek potter’s spell encumbered by a lapsed pun
Doors ajar and vats wed with an aimless spar
I finally see the fullness of majesty adorned as a breathing star.
Jun 30, 2016
Jun 30, 2016 at 7:42 AM UTC
She’s a flower of burned dirt
with pale and bony legs
- her emaciated thighs
etched with scars.
She’s been cutting to the music
of an inner, minatory choir
- a song of spite-filled sorrow
and perpetual farewell.
Christmas in the shadows
the hopeless hollow-days
in the kind of barren places
where our savior made his way.
The angels mark your passing
and they understand your pain
- when the roll is called in heaven
seraphim will speak her name.
Dec 11, 2021
Dec 11, 2021 at 8:26 AM UTC
Entombed on the outskirts
of hero township
sits a once Arcadian jewel
turned relic
its vast wings spread
as an eagle
but the days of flight
long exhausted
sullen close-down signs and banners
hang minatory from
a fractured glass ceiling
-- a terminal remainder
spots of rain fall thru strewn wreckage
along the counters of a fossilized department store
inchworms journey down
the massive teeth of a frozen
escalator descended from
the empty heavens
creepy crawlers move about
remnants of a food court
in search of morsels
like the droves of
holiday shoppers
that once haunted this place
before betraying it
for the shiny new toy
across the highway
Feb 25, 2020
Feb 25, 2020 at 9:14 AM UTC
Nobody knows the the minatory storms that dwell within; or why I remain altruistic continuously reaching for the horizon
The quandaries I've shouldered will never define me; my soul too serene for melancholy to blind me
These eyes still see the stars even through all these tears; my journey has yielded scars but I no longer wallow in fears
Inside me an intrinsic luminous core stowed deep within; never to be darkened never becoming grim
Benevolent I will remain my spirit never to be razed; absolved of all my blunders no allegiance to the pain
Nostalgia crept in like potent medicine unwittingly fickle heart remembers where my roots begin listening to the voice inside me resurgence of who I am
Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017 at 7:07 PM UTC
My depression had become hypostatized.
What had once been an apathetic disquiet
That trapped me in a chasm of my own despondent mind
Like a listless anesthetic
Was now a minatory wraith.
Haunting my every heartbeat and permeating my sanity,
Feasting on my solicitude and
Lusting for any coruscant yet scarce threads of faith
That held my hope together.
Like an avarice.
This assault on my being enervated me.
Paralysis.
Coupled with sporadic bursts of frenzied nerves.
When I felt that insidious gnawing on my humanity,
Sending spasms along sinew.
Brutally awakening this cadaver from the endless malaise.
I used to dance in the wind, but never like the others.
Branches heavy,
Floriferous with empathy,
Roots delving deep to drink in the truth,
Trunk dense to defy the gale of calamity.
Lost inside the thicket of deciduous oak,
I danced against the others,
Against my brothers.
Accursed willow.
I wept as the winds tore at my blossoms
And the worms nibbled at my feet.
My river went dry.
My knees went weak.
Infernal rampike.
I mused bitterly that if a tree should ever fall in the forest,
Not even his brothers would give audience to his demise.
May 24, 2017
May 24, 2017 at 3:38 PM UTC