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"obelisks" poems
A star of blood you fell from the point of the hypodermic singing of fabulous beasts & spitting out the *** of vowels Your poems explode in the mouth like torrents of ***** on a night full of zebras & bootheels Your ghost still cruses the river- fronts of midnight assignations in a world of dead sailors carrying armfuls of flowers in search of your unmarked grave Your body no sanctuary for bees, Death was your lover in a rain of broken obelisks & rotting orchids In the tangled rose of a single heartbeat I offer you the shadow of a double profile, two heads held together at the bridge of the nose by a nail of ***** smoke in the long night's dreaming & memory of water poured between glasses In my mailbox I find a letter from a dead man & know that for every shadow given one is taken away Yet subtraction is only a special form of addition and implies a world of hidden intentions below a horizon of lips thin as your fingernail sprouting mysteries in the earth … The ace of spades dealt from the bottom of the deck severs the hand which retrieves it & the eyes of Beauty sewn together peer over a black lace fan in the ****** sunlight of a Spanish morning without horses The Belt of Orion is loosened before you as you remove the silver fingerstalls from your mummy hands & kneel to plunder the nightsky in a shower of bitter diamonds. (Somewhere under a blanket someone weeps for a lover.) Peace to your soul & to your empty shoes in the dark closets of kings with no feet!!!
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Apr 17, 2013
Apr 17, 2013 at 4:06 PM UTC
An Act of Jeopardy for Garcia Lorca by Ira Cohen
A star of blood you fell from the point of the hypodermic singing of fabulous beasts & spitting out the *** of vowels Your poems explode in the mouth like torrents of ***** on a night full of zebras & bootheels Your ghost still cruses the river- fronts of midnight assignations in a world of dead sailors carrying armfuls of flowers in search of your unmarked grave Your body no sanctuary for bees, Death was your lover in a rain of broken obelisks & rotting orchids In the tangled rose of a single heartbeat I offer you the shadow of a double profile, two heads held together at the bridge of the nose by a nail of ***** smoke in the long night's dreaming & memory of water poured between glasses In my mailbox I find a letter from a dead man & know that for every shadow given one is taken away Yet subtraction is only a special form of addition and implies a world of hidden intentions below a horizon of lips thin as your fingernail sprouting mysteries in the earth … The ace of spades dealt from the bottom of the deck severs the hand which retrieves it & the eyes of Beauty sewn together peer over a black lace fan in the ****** sunlight of a Spanish morning without horses The Belt of Orion is loosened before you as you remove the silver fingerstalls from your mummy hands & kneel to plunder the nightsky in a shower of bitter diamonds. (Somewhere under a blanket someone weeps for a lover.) Peace to your soul & to your empty shoes in the dark closets of kings with no feet!!!
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Russian black grass and an ornate pattere  garden, pheasants basking in uncertainty culpable designs eyeing towards. Yellow book inclusion, asks more than the obelisks shadows casting down the acers, the mia crocus still a red mist before laying the asphalt driveway.
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Feb 1, 2014
Feb 1, 2014 at 5:23 PM UTC
New Garden owners.
Singing on the roof tops dancing with the owls preying on the ocean wandering through the comets soul by soul we devoured plagiarising every thought typhoons and their memories pummelling every heartbeat Choppy moments And finding secrets Blending on the side walks chasing the tail of Mars leaping from the aether coughing up the stars rain of rain we let roar sipping every shadow deserts and their reveries pummelling every heartbeat Colder summers And clearing skies Poems on the sunset obelisks on the edge triremes in the universe clocks in our heads hell by hell we traversed loving every essence clusters and their eulogies pummelling every heartbeat Changing meadows And healing wakes We watched the cows graze.
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Sep 1, 2012
Sep 1, 2012 at 11:11 AM UTC
Prairie Axis
Gray mountain concrete        elephant underpass groans on six foot wide legs               bones of steel        re-bar bend and break As it all begins to crumble in the cold November sun Leviathan highways    strangle the hills       with cold grip- They             spill steel and smoke        blood on the city streets Delivering poison      to your door Robot brain control center Oversees the operation from tall towers         geometric shapes                    Obelisks & Skyscrapers Father Culture thinks with                                 his ****
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Sep 10, 2012
Sep 10, 2012 at 5:01 PM UTC
Obelisks & Skyscrapers
They walk aloof among us Three percent of the population They reluctantly dine with us Quietly, stifling their frustration They don't look back as you pass They don't want your conversation Empathy is just an alien concept They focus only on self preservation But here's where it gets strange We worship them with huge salaries We beg them to lead us the way We ignore their blatant deceptiveness We hand them our hard earned pay If they say bail out the banksters Or send your kids to a dubious war We offer them our kids and cash Knowing that they will ask for more Stranger still Our history has been sculpted by them We raise bronze statues proudly in their honor Through our plain idleness and cowardice They can reduce this planet to a nuclear goner "How did this madness occur?" We question Why do psychos run banks and governments Checking world history offers a suggestion To why we (the population) are slaves for rent We are simply afraid of those That successfully navigate life With reckless irresponsibility Unchallenged by others strife It is those destructive characters We plead to take political risks In return for obedience and cash To buy more power and obelisks
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Aug 4, 2014
Aug 4, 2014 at 3:04 PM UTC
****** Worship
One autumn day in Providence I opened up a door, And entered into a stuffy room Called "Edgar's Nevermore", A curio shop with things forbidden, And things bizarre and perverse, And obelisks of ancient books Occult, arcane, and diverse. I poked around the pint-sized potions, Inspected a petrified eft, But made no purchase; and empty handed The merchant's lair I left. Returning home, to my surprise, Like one who'd broken the law, I found I'd taken a good unpaid for: A little monkey's paw. It tightly gripped, with fingers curled, A flap of baggy sleeve; And there it stayed, upon my jacket, When I hung it up at eve. For many days it didn't move, And seemed the perfect pet; But never trust a monkey's paw, Or this is what you'll get: I went to bed a drunken evening, And slept as though I were dead; And I didn't hear the monkey's paw As it crept beside my bed, The monkey's paw that had bided its time, And waited, still as could be, To choose this night to strangle it— My voodoo doll of me! (Why did I have a voodoo doll Of me, you ask? Well, I... Well, let's just say...well...I can't tell you... I'd blush to tell you why...) I awoke (with bleary, blurry vision) To the monkey-fisted grip, Then died without a single curse To swear upon my lip. And in my town I'm still remembered As that quintessential loner Who died alone with a mangled throat, A creepy doll...and a ***** O.O
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 3:13 PM UTC
A Pet Appendage
I hunt antelope in human hordes. I haul three brooms on one shoulder. I don't clean up. I dance with specters and minuscule magenta men. I am the precocious girl in fuchsia heels and charcoal dress. I am the humble man with stark white tails. I pull drops of food from the ether. I pinch seeds from flower's eyes. I touch like feathers and embrace like mountains. I take leave when I want to. I am the shaggy oak watching his youth flash past. I am the alabaster orb and the effervescent waves. I eat the wind with a dash of cinnamon. I exude thunderstorms from every pore. I sleep with stingrays and the smell of wet hay. I spend blood-soaked bills without a second thought. I am the sinless murderer. I am the woman with eyes that mend bones. I fly with eagles in the cerulean. I fight Irish brawlers with my eyes closed. I capture hearts in nets of lavender and silk. I climb towering opal obelisks. I am the painter's muse and the singer's breath. I am the hoary frost on ancient limbs.
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May 12, 2010
May 12, 2010 at 11:07 AM UTC
Lavender and silk
A personable person propogated passion Beneath my heavy heart Alas, cried the caterpillar You are not dead! Though I have spent hours molesting your windowsill Rapeseed! Huckleberry! Gingerbread Pie! All these things and more have I maliciously misunderstood But the lies of the soothsayer are frequently true They are passionate pomegranates from me to you The obelisks of oppression overpower your heartstrings And there's nothing you can do My villain! My thief! The princess of my misery! The fiery orb and the blasphemous pirates! Staring at your shoulders I see only my reflection Turning on your heel my eyelids sparkle and linger at your doorstep It's Goliath's head Salmon and bread Those deathly ideas which you purposely said Tic tac guru Just what is he to you? And which of my words have you read?
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Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012 at 6:24 PM UTC
Between My Lines
It's 11:11 make a wish Look out the spotty window See all the frowns And boring towns See how powerful the words we use are They can cut deep Deeper than the most violent assault Buildings and obelisks of befuddlement Pressed for time Lemon scented tiles Scrubbed No mold Personal preference Common courtesy And common sense     Scarce but invaluable A face only a mother could love And a father can lie to Coulda Woulda Shoulda Didn't Searching for carrion Give way To the wayside ECNALUBMA In the rear view The worms eat us The early birds catch the worms The cat nabs the worm After being resurrected by satisfaction And the night owl writes the tell-all Put the ear to glass Put the glass to the door And listen closely To sound of knuckles cracking And the chattering of coffee shop patrons Indian givers going back on their word Fingerless gloves Prim and proper Promptly pummeling Tunneling to tomorrow Well done Slim to none Fat chance The local native's tongue Sold fresh and farm raised On any given day You can find demi-gods Playing a a pick up game Matchbook Matchbox Mismatch socks Pick up sticks and stretchmarks Just stay the night So we can wish this all away together It's 11:12 open your eyes
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Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 1:22 PM UTC
The Synchronized Coincidence Of Mystical Numerology
Begins foot tall grip- mountain brain to it of and tall his shapes crumble in poison operation from bend and strangle mountain to bones strangle and operation from **** foot underpass groans begins They smoke wide legs city and tall the streets Delivering the cold grip- and bend crumble in of his tall bones the foot with on blood blood highways and all of concrete smoke They with on center Oversees poison
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Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 2:43 PM UTC
Obelisks & Skyscrapers [Cold Grip Remix]
I was there before the beginning Before the conception of time and space, when nothing was everything and everything was nothing. In vain I waited for you to materialize from the ether of emptiness But you never came. So there I stood, waiting... I was there at the beginning At the conception of time and space when everthing came from nothing. I saw the sun, or that condescent swirling cloud of dust that was to be the sun. I saw the earth, a miniscule ball of molten, boiling, writhing anger I was there when everything, but you emerged from nothing. So there I stood, waiting... I was there at the edge of an undulating mass of the pimordial ooze, that sea of everything and nothing. I saw pleaseasaur ribbon its long, shiny, black body through the fathomless depths of the sea Searching, as was I, for something. I saw stegasaur, that lumbering hulk of muscle and scale take its first precarious steps onto land looking, as was I, for something. Every creature, but one-the one I wanted, stepped forth from that roiling soup. But you never came. So there I stood, waiting... I was there when neanderthal first discovered fire. I saw that temptress dance across the contours of his rough, wind hewn face. I saw his eyes sparkle as he and I gazed longingly into the yellow, red dancer's lair. Both searching for something or someone. I stared and stared hoping to catch the slightest glimmer of your eyes. But you never came. so there I stood, waiting... I was there when Egypt and Rome first peeped their heads from the cold ground surrounding their feet. I was there as those stone goliaths, pyramids, grew block by block layer by layer stretching, reaching, longing for heaven's basement. Just as I longed for you. I saw Rome's aquaducts, seemingly endless terracota snakes, slicing through the eons blindly feeling for something. Just as I searched for you hoping you were searching for me. But you never came. So there I stood, waiting... I was there when we almost killed the human race, for the second time. I stood at the entrance to Auschwitz scanning the multitude of worn, sullen,destitute face hoping, praying you weren't there. Thank God you weren't there. So there I stood, waiting... I am here. In a cold place made of lifeless, emotionless steal and glass. I watched as heartless obelisks devoured the cozy bricks of ancient neighborhoods. Signaling the undaunted march of father time. His harried pace, defies his antiquated frame, drains my fortitude. but step for step night and day day in and day out I will wait for you. So here I stand, waiting...
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Oct 19, 2011
Oct 19, 2011 at 4:20 PM UTC
Here I Stand...
I was there before the beginning Before the conception of time and space, when nothing was everything and everything was nothing. In vain I waited for you to materialize from the ether of emptiness But you never came. So there I stood, waiting... I was there at the beginning At the conception of time and space when everthing came from nothing. I saw the sun, or that condescent swirling cloud of dust that was to be the sun. I saw the earth, a miniscule ball of molten, boiling, writhing anger I was there when everything, but you emerged from nothing. So there I stood, waiting... I was there at the edge of an undulating mass of the pimordial ooze, that sea of everything and nothing. I saw pleaseasaur ribbon its long, shiny, black body through the fathomless depths of the sea Searching, as was I, for something. I saw stegasaur, that lumbering hulk of muscle and scale take its first precarious steps onto land looking, as was I, for something. Every creature, but one-the one I wanted, stepped forth from that roiling soup. But you never came. So there I stood, waiting... I was there when neanderthal first discovered fire. I saw that temptress dance across the contours of his rough, wind hewn face. I saw his eyes sparkle as he and I gazed longingly into the yellow, red dancer's lair. Both searching for something or someone. I stared and stared hoping to catch the slightest glimmer of your eyes. But you never came. so there I stood, waiting... I was there when Egypt and Rome first peeped their heads from the cold ground surrounding their feet. I was there as those stone goliaths, pyramids, grew block by block layer by layer stretching, reaching, longing for heaven's basement. Just as I longed for you. I saw Rome's aquaducts, seemingly endless terracota snakes, slicing through the eons blindly feeling for something. Just as I searched for you hoping you were searching for me. But you never came. So there I stood, waiting... I was there when we almost killed the human race, for the second time. I stood at the entrance to Auschwitz scanning the multitude of worn, sullen,destitute face hoping, praying you weren't there. Thank God you weren't there. So there I stood, waiting... I am here. In a cold place made of lifeless, emotionless steal and glass. I watched as heartless obelisks devoured the cozy bricks of ancient neighborhoods. Signaling the undaunted march of father time. His harried pace, defies his antiquated frame, drains my fortitude. but step for step night and day day in and day out I will wait for you. So here I stand, waiting...
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2 am Land, luggage, end reality. Bad weather means delayed flight, glued in tonight still, adventure beckons from glass pane separating airport and New York City; Our escape. 5 hours till next flight. Sheer immensity of silver obelisks, so cleanly cut edges like razorblades, have grasped our curiosity, slicing binding adhesive of bad weather, anchoring our release into the cold mist. We wander beyond our time limit. Bright, despite night. City never sleeps, still peaceful on the other side of day. Making way street by street, exploring what we can while we can. The amount of exploring one gets done with a time limit. 4 hours Alleyways, streets, parallel zigzag back and forth up and down. Some lit, others bleeding darkness, over pouring with lost souls. With a clouded sense of direction, one tends to find lost at every corner. 3 hours Like bugs at night, we stick to the light. We strive to make it back before our time is up. Nervousness settles in as sight seeing becomes partial. New objective, return to airport. Mental maps being yelled back and forth. Still nobody knows which is right. 2 hours left. Familiar street or frame of block, memory shoots through mind like lightning arcing through the sky providing the route back to salvation. The Scarlet Speedster known as The Flash has never known speed comparable to my brothers and I nervously rushing back to JFK. With our last hour we check in our baggage and board our plane. Though not our destination, it would be pointless to pass up the late night delicacies of New York City.
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Feb 13, 2013
Feb 13, 2013 at 11:21 PM UTC
Red Eye Flight
2 am Land, luggage, end reality. Bad weather means delayed flight, glued in tonight still, adventure beckons from glass pane separating airport and New York City; Our escape. 5 hours till next flight. Sheer immensity of silver obelisks, so cleanly cut edges like razorblades, have grasped our curiosity, slicing binding adhesive of bad weather, anchoring our release into the cold mist. We wander beyond our time limit. Bright, despite night. City never sleeps, still peaceful on the other side of day. Making way street by street, exploring what we can while we can. The amount of exploring one gets done with a time limit. 4 hours Alleyways, streets, parallel zigzag back and forth up and down. Some lit, others bleeding darkness, over pouring with lost souls. With a clouded sense of direction, one tends to find lost at every corner. 3 hours Like bugs at night, we stick to the light. We strive to make it back before our time is up. Nervousness settles in as sight seeing becomes partial. New objective, return to airport. Mental maps being yelled back and forth. Still nobody knows which is right. 2 hours left. Familiar street or frame of block, memory shoots through mind like lightning arcing through the sky providing the route back to salvation. The Scarlet Speedster known as The Flash has never known speed comparable to my brothers and I nervously rushing back to JFK. With our last hour we check in our baggage and board our plane. Though not our destination, it would be pointless to pass up the late night delicacies of New York City.
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Upon the hilltop Far over the golden horizon Where the sun peeks out From behind the blue crystals Lining the cloudless sky, There sit gray Obelisks, towers of fractured stone And gleaming silver flowers That chant the distant melodies Of those who lay below the grass. The obelisks line in circles And weep silently for what age Has brought upon their faces; Moss and cracks, dirt upon bouquets, Names weathered down to pebbles Vast plains of unturned soil. At nightfall, winds break Upon the hilltop's gates And send forth siren calls That plead for silent harmonies Somewhere deep underground, Below the grasses, below the tombstones That rise and fall like waves That sit silent, immobile, As time strikes its silver chisel Upon the forgotten markers of those Who have been locked Inside its ticking crypt.
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 8:33 PM UTC
Upon the Hilltop
The debate is on I want to perform but first I must humidify my guitar Ate dinner now there's a lump in my throat so I'm gonna sit here drinking tea 'till I feel paradoxically soothed and energized hamburger and homefries the summer dish perfect for outside but here I sit in my A/C winterland conditioning myself for hats and gloves The water's warming and rising the mosquito larvae have won Itching in Yellow Fever delirium These grassy hollows were once a worthwhile place The new wonders are now grotesque animistic anomalies Today, face-to-face with rabid rabbits Tomorrow, the white light angels with hyper beam cleansing      they could no longer bear to watch from porcelain obelisks the human media screen of indoor inexploration fail to hide the sins from the scale holding counters Justice, the lucky one with bandanna over eyes still heard the profit wrenching semantics get drowned out from screaming harpies Responsible gods stopped their foray in fear humans will survive Dark matter engulfs all in fear humans will survive
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 1:11 AM UTC
Prometheus Lights the Fall
I'm a tool pondering skyscapes. Fondling a memory Left behind On sunset marquees. It raced into the horizon like A toad on the road. A neon dream waving farewell. Exploring mindsets: An act in caressing Bloodbath tesseracts. A roundhouse rollercoaster, Spinning at velocity of perfume Hitting nasal perforations. Core memories surface along spine cutlets, No longer intrinsic Doubt. I'm settling for more. Time is a moment Too long to endure. Hindsight is A parson's lake passage; A mad monster yet to be tamed; A grain of salt to a fresh wound made; Moments of grace from a fake great ape. Blue morons slide Into Mormon jovial footsteps. Derided ice forestry into King's cloaked ancestry. A sad fisherman sailing Ceaselessly out to sea. And yet here I am Talking to you, Eyelight through obelisks In hotbox barricades. Hiding behind A past of newspapers. Headline reads 'ONLY DEVINE' 'TRADE REIGN WARNS JEWELS' 'PRINCE THREATENS ECONOMY ... AND CROWN.' Wipe the frown, Draw the sword. Don't be ignored anymore.
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Aug 22, 2017
Aug 22, 2017 at 5:17 PM UTC
Momentary Overture
when i cordoned you off with Gorilla Tape and lilac vine once i was done attaching encrypted files of pearls upon that sultry salt of your inner-thighs once i’d borrowed bonds off my favorite banker’s portfolio so i could waste myself in their earned interest ratios of blood bourne by centuries of hapless gathering oppression so i could use them in mosaics of swollen sand that i could lay like sea-glass shards under your ebbing feet as useless parchments i swallowed you in all your swollen spasms of fragile oblivion until that bottom of this tongue lept amidst surfacing juices obliterating and obligating all that ever decayed amidst obelisks your whispers (hatched from your breathy endorphins) shook me into mine own desperate shudders astride our gathering humidity and i gathered in your needle-nosed plier eyes -rust encrusted grey incisors- wrought from melted andirons mixed with slug trodden soils of hinterlands i was never to penetrate as if i ever slammed you with yore spinning flails into night’s emerging chasm of charcoal sprinkled with inner-orange peels and their attempts toward all that is illuminating, wistful, brief, and precious— i am your son, i am birthed from your sal i vations. i am twisting, still, amidst these rudiments of brine...
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Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 2:20 AM UTC
Gorilla
The endless sands bulging over and breaking in undulating form shifting in the winds language of low wolf whistles and sensual whispers stretches as far as the minds elasticity into a sheltered cove where sits, a desert prophet dreaming of strange rituals in the mirage of waters and wastelands. Come time and temperament he will rise in the chill night to gaze upon the stars moving within the spangled galaxies between The Milky Way and Cassopeia,Andromeda, with Sirius suns rising in a another world where secrets lay buried in the papyrus of ancient astrologers who understood how the earth was born and other peoples left their mark for a discovery of millennium future. The prophet was here once. Twelve feet tall and striding between giant obelisks and pyramids walking oceans, crossing land bridges and land masses escorting his forbears to seed the earth. "I will return in time ten thousand years after the Aztecs Machu Pichu, Indus and Empires built on carved gods and seven headed hydra, to rule again unquestioned, as before. Think. Till then -leave what I have left behind for you to caretake. Stay still. Understand. Author Notes Return? © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, a month ago
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 12:10 AM UTC
The Desert Prophet
In a while, in a second and rain is pouring down. One expectation like an Alpine horn and you hardly, hardly are alive. With your little hollows you're listening to the Labyrinth. And I have no knowledge. And I have no map. But the long movement of moss on the skin of obelisks. The calm waters are unleashing into me and the chestnuts are putting white candles on (and the autumn is a palm). Wings, raising upwards and upwards... I'm calling you by name. The original: Викам те по име След миг, след секунда и руква дъжд. Едно очакване като алпииски рог и ти едва, едва си жив. Със шепите си малки слушаш Лабиринта. И нямам знание. И нямам карта. А дългото движение на мъх по кожата на обелиски. Спокойните води изливат се във мен и кестените се обличат в бели свещи ( и есента е длан. Криле, издигащи се все нагоре, все нагоре… И викам те по име. Translator Bulgarian-English: Vessislava Savova rarebird © bogpan - all rights reserved.
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Dec 15, 2010
Dec 15, 2010 at 5:50 AM UTC
I'm Calling You by Name
I wish I could erase the moments before this I wish I could be born again My mind no longer tainted My bare feet upon the dirt covered wooden floor As I gaze out into the thick warm jungle The fog of morning hangs I would dream perfectly as they Nightmares would entail Yellow jungle cat eyes watching from the shadow Dreams of a beautiful girl bathing in the river We are God's do you know this? We all came from the same river All of us float in the same pool of algae Instinct Some push away while others attract Until we all become one The eternal circle At death the great being Stands His left foot in a vast green sea Great and wonderful creatures Swim in it's depths They seem to sing as they swim His right  foot rests upon a great desert Pyramids and obelisks rise up from the hot planes Snakes with scales shining as a rainbow living streams of diamonds That dance across the dunes Out of his mouth flows a great river Time flows from it Eternally onward it flows after me As it has flowed for the eternity before me The great being speaks to me in a voice like thunder It's words move my bones I put my finger into the cool water I know the place of my consciousness Among the raging seas Time I will be born again At the moment of my death The leaf-the bird-the cicada all beings singing the endless song of life
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 1:02 AM UTC
The Snake Eating It's Tail
She was not old enough to have graduated high school, nor aware enough to notice how many eyes were on her, sympathetic or disdainful or hungry, as she struggled to push a cart full of pull-ups and cleaning supplies in a cart with a broken wheel through the warm and somniferous glow of ill-maintained streetlights, those obelisks of granite. Don't call it pity, but something stirred my gut, and burned my eyes, as she trudged past me, pushing a cartload of motherhood, trailing a warm autumn breeze, an aromatic telegram; lilac and lavender, a diffident bouquet, accented by spritely vanilla, withering before bleach-fumes and mordant disinfectant.
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Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 at 7:16 PM UTC
In a Parking Lot, Outside Wal-Mart
A flower blossoms in the desert on a cactus where there's no one to see it. The beauty mark upon the oasis. Candlelight in the darkness, lit outstretched hands hold reminders puzzle pieces with no remainders; a ghost alone without pension. Obelisks withstand the seasons of a troubled, turbulent heart resistant to the call of reason as gravitation pulls us apart. The talisman will guard the flower from its persistent self-destruction. Even though it has no power, Its psychosomatic, deep within.
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 11:18 PM UTC
Talisman
Seven stone obelisks Seven stone walls cover the valley floor in silver and sapphire Monoliths Sentinels watching and absorbing Things live and things grow while They stand unwavering Every year the valley floods and They disappear beneath the lake And every year They emerge from their slumber; Their deep thoughts
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Dec 8, 2011
Dec 8, 2011 at 1:58 PM UTC
The Valley of Seven
I carry this pit With me everyday Sometimes it's in my Stomach My back My neck The bottoms of My feet The back of my Mind It never goes Away It just moves It seems to grow Barbs when my Thoughts shift To it As they usually Do seemingly Out of nowhere Sometimes early In the morning Or late at night Depending on how You look at things I can feel the pit In mid transit Looking for the Discarded trash and Snapped twigs of A new nest A new perch to Take up residence There is no point To the pit It is absurd Because it exists It is the Materialization Of all the Rejected submissions Sideways glances Passing snickers Passive aggressive emails Shelves of unread books Dust bunnies in the corner Creaking of floor boards Board meetings Clenching of teeth behind Closed lips The fading din of a Conversation as you Enter the room Obelisks of junk mail That choke the Arteries of the earth Lies that canoe through Your teeth into The sea of Pointless small talk Time A peach rotting In a ceramic bowl In a watercolor kitchen Until the only thing left Is the pit
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Oct 5, 2016
Oct 5, 2016 at 6:33 PM UTC
Peach
It was humanity that was the mixed bag of jelly beans at summer camp that spilled out into the scorching sun restless for *** and sun-tans. All before they melted away into Kandinsky paintings pretending that happiness was something of a virtue. And while the paintings ignited into a righteous firestorm of white men in white robes with hope and faith, flying out the church doors and taking to the sky, morphing into airplanes to destroy the great peace in the form of two obelisks pointing to Allah. To the american hypocrisy that we drink like cough syrup to cure nothing. While pretending everything was alright. While dead men are worshiped more than a word of the past that is the future. Let us forget about innovation. Let us look back onto the great circles of cycles that we overturn on the great history of the 4th of July flagpoles that I grasp, feeling the pulse of the blood-filled stripes. Let us look to the cold-blooded blue square that we plant ourselves on as stars, making our marks in this smooth and creamy void. Let us walk into the white absences were color is uninhabitable to the Negroes or the Latinos who used all of their angry fixes in activism and cigarettes that burn holes through eternity. To the Chinese who were thrown out of our stars like mutts in order for our stars to shine the plastic glow that stays illuminated in the lights of Chick-fil-A that sells homosexuals with a side of Leviticus. Taking, taking, taking to the past and somehow justifying death to natives, then scalping the land as some sort of victory of great imperialism that still hangs to our hearts like a collective tumor. But I have been kind, I have been free. To the breath of foreigners breaking the normality that is conformity. Let me scare you with your greatest fear which is locked away in gravestones and darkness. Locked away in Kerouac, Whitman and Ginsberg For that which is change. I speak directly to the inner gashes that are your soul. Change before the fireworks turn into mutually assured destruction. And you won’t. Change before the feminists shoot me with their trigger warnings. And you won’t. Change before the immigrants last breath murmurs **** dreams”. And you won’t. I am America and my flag is paper, white paper.
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Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015 at 10:48 PM UTC
White Paper
It was humanity that was the mixed bag of jelly beans at summer camp that spilled out into the scorching sun restless for *** and sun-tans. All before they melted away into Kandinsky paintings pretending that happiness was something of a virtue. And while the paintings ignited into a righteous firestorm of white men in white robes with hope and faith, flying out the church doors and taking to the sky, morphing into airplanes to destroy the great peace in the form of two obelisks pointing to Allah. To the american hypocrisy that we drink like cough syrup to cure nothing. While pretending everything was alright. While dead men are worshiped more than a word of the past that is the future. Let us forget about innovation. Let us look back onto the great circles of cycles that we overturn on the great history of the 4th of July flagpoles that I grasp, feeling the pulse of the blood-filled stripes. Let us look to the cold-blooded blue square that we plant ourselves on as stars, making our marks in this smooth and creamy void. Let us walk into the white absences were color is uninhabitable to the Negroes or the Latinos who used all of their angry fixes in activism and cigarettes that burn holes through eternity. To the Chinese who were thrown out of our stars like mutts in order for our stars to shine the plastic glow that stays illuminated in the lights of Chick-fil-A that sells homosexuals with a side of Leviticus. Taking, taking, taking to the past and somehow justifying death to natives, then scalping the land as some sort of victory of great imperialism that still hangs to our hearts like a collective tumor. But I have been kind, I have been free. To the breath of foreigners breaking the normality that is conformity. Let me scare you with your greatest fear which is locked away in gravestones and darkness. Locked away in Kerouac, Whitman and Ginsberg For that which is change. I speak directly to the inner gashes that are your soul. Change before the fireworks turn into mutually assured destruction. And you won’t. Change before the feminists shoot me with their trigger warnings. And you won’t. Change before the immigrants last breath murmurs **** dreams”. And you won’t. I am America and my flag is paper, white paper.
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