"seranaea" poems
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i took no pleasantries in that adjustment
from the top shelf of Pastry Perfection
to the wicker-wire dust bunnies at the
"sole" level of humanity
after i mistakenly thought —you— took
some element of freeverse i had posted a
couple of years ago at one of the more-read
poetry sites on the internet-
then i realized something, Poet..
that for all those sleepless hours you
spent cramming for the SAT—
i posited on how many welding rods
could be burned down during a two
hour period of trade school
and with respect to those thousands of
words diligently packed into your
undergrad dissertation—
(*including that humorous description of a
knitted strap you used to keep the pencil
from rolling off the table*)
i wrote a brief essay of commonalities
on how much Gerald R. Ford and
Elwyn Brooks White
actually disliked
football,
and to those thoughtfully crafted lectures
in front of scores of distinguished
scholars and senior staff—
i was projecting shadow puppets onto a
screen during a slideshow while the
teacher excused herself to the restroom.
basically this;
as to the volumes of books
you have published
over the decades—
i have a few thousand words of
amateur poetry posted online
inside of a few years.
That Said,
for those carefully-placed words
(of mine)
you incorporated into your
latest masterpiece,
realizing poets will not always
happen upon the same instant
at any given intersection,
i recognized that most familiar sensation
we Both get when having correctly
delivered the punchline to the funniest
joke of the evening.
we —in fact— have only the readings
of fellow writers to blame for each
other's blending of creative impulses,
that during these miraculous,
yet humble birthings of verse—
i have it now on good authority,
that we all could possibly exist
within this capacity
as mere equals...
"The Lanyard of Amateur Poetry"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
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Oct 7, 2020
Oct 7, 2020 at 6:53 AM UTC
0100110110- etc..
0 & 1 & 2 is 3
" ? "
i know two numbers,
one and zero
though the "two" cannot exist here,
the inclusion of an additional
element becomes a necessary evil,
for zero once paired becomes
a paradox resulting from three
instances of enumeration
(presumably at once)
since the zero is involved in all this,
its very existence must count, even if
in fact it only represents a void—
to correct this numerical anomaly,
the two must exit this array by first
taking nothing with it...
"a binary mystification"
© 2010 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020 at 7:08 AM UTC
the moon is your element,
underneath it you alight
with its pure lunar dew
all senses become the air and
the water as your heartbeat
sends ripples into me
i can feel that and more as fingertips
trace my reaction to it gently
upon your bare skin back
but it seems beyond my capacity to
channel the energy and lift from you
the heaviness of your thoughts
so we sit still as i let you
bathe quietly within
your element
if you happen to glance and
catch me gazing upward,
remember—
the stars, they are
all mine...
"As stars eclipse the Moon"
© 2008 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Aug 29, 2020
Aug 29, 2020 at 9:01 PM UTC
my footfalls translate to mileage in the
way that feathers can be lost to a given
amount of wing beats—
each iteration of propulsion will shed
bits of material,
and these are mixed into the sands that are
splashed across beaches, bleached and
eventually broken down into elemental shapes
one of those grains flew and landed on a
boardwalk and then another one
kicked it aside many years ago
by some distant shoreline,
they now lie together in my path—
why i know this is anyone's guess,
but surely the math is in my favor
needless to say, even if my remains withstand
the sands of time there wont be anyone
left to recognize me,
yet i am certain a piece of me will always
be a few steps ahead somewhere,
either washed there from a recent gale,
or maybe blown from the nostrils
of a passing sea gull...
"shoes and feathers"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 at 8:40 PM UTC
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Just basically an accounting of
language as it is conveyed
between media types
namely,
Air, Silicone and Mail ;
in Air,
you have to
basically be ready to
respond within a reasonable
period, say about three or four seconds
upon Silicone, you could "afk" and then
mix a drink- rinse out the mixing
utensils and type a response
with some degree of
forethinking
in Air,
you could breath
in the real-time vibes that
trigger automatic subject sensitivity,
like, _(something too disturbing for me to detail here)_
upon Silicone, you would be able to digitally
sort and discard these disturbing elements
and then lie to yourself about the
true weight of the
conversation
in Air,
a comedian can
deliver a punchline in
order to impulse a laugh out of you,
even to the point of spitting out your wine
upon Silicone, latency can cause punchlines
to be misinterpreted as an offense, which
will likely sully those carefully
established digital
relationships
—
You
could encode
the Air in the fashion
that Native Americans did
with campfires and blankets,
but i would never suggest that
you try and breath Silicone____ !
nor pattern the "the ins and outs"
of breathing within the basic scope
of a vacuum in order to encode
it upon a microchip that
can only be read by
a machine—
either way, in case you
may not have noticed,
Personal Letters are —at this moment—
asphyxiating into blue screen
oblivion,
deep inside the
Lost Mailbags of Redundancy...
"Comm_Check"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
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Oct 15, 2020
Oct 15, 2020 at 10:45 PM UTC
my ears soak inside-out in a seltzer
filled glass on my bedroom nightstand
each evening so that the ringing will
hopefully dissolve and settle to the bottom
they dream of wingtips that the
maple can hear through the leaves
as they stir the breeze upon landing,
the patter of avian claws gripping
the bark in short scoots,
the stretch of a twig bending downward
with the slightest brush of a feather, the
splitting noises of a newborn’s egg,
and even the breath taken before
the whoosh of a dive—
they awaken this morning with
words and imagination bringing
forth a new voice,
one which reads aloud to them
about the simple sounds
that birds can make...
"a whoosh unheard"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Jul 30, 2020
Jul 30, 2020 at 8:44 PM UTC
i used to throw bread crumbs into
a pond full of minnows next to a
place where i worked years ago
it kept me cool in the summertime,
pulling the heat out of me and
feeding it into the winds as
a turtle snapped up dozens of fish-babies,
transforming the vision of my frame into
maybe the size of a praeternatural feather
and for a moment,
i dreamt that on a clear night through the
eyes of a barnyard owl that i could
navigate the dark foldings of
space into the beating
hearts of praying
rodents—
blinking back to a view of
disturbed green waters—
i commenced
to waking...
"the frenzy, at rest"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Sep 5, 2020
Sep 5, 2020 at 6:27 PM UTC
a large hand from outer space
descended to the Earth's surface
and with a finger and thumb,
grabs me by the belt at the seat
of my pants,
hoisting me straight up like
a fish out of water for
viewing with a great
concern...
He turns my tinyness toward Him
and looks me eye to eye, frowning
in disapproval—
"I dunno, maybe You should
just,
toss me away??"
His face then smiled a little,
and with a sigh ,
i was gently lowered
back down...
"Intervention"
©2007-2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Jul 23, 2020
Jul 23, 2020 at 9:04 PM UTC
She had a dream many years ago of moon fish in the sea
as the Mermaids sang, the moon fish swam happy and carefree
the moon began to shine
the sky turned April wine
sweet moments of eternity,
in a sweet poetic voice of poetry;
She had a vision of the ocean, filled with moon fish of every shade
and as the dolphins danced the sky turned emerald Jade
Then the stars appeared
as evening slowly neared
when the wind did veer
the moon fish quickly cleared
She longed to see the moon fish swim by a sky of midnight blue
and so a vigil by the sea, brought moon fish of every hue
Written by: Mystic Rose
Apr 25, 2021
Apr 25, 2021 at 8:11 PM UTC
my panic sack would have
contained enough breath
to blow out most of this
year’s birthday candles
inverted,
a mask tumbles out like
some kind of lung-wallet,
hinting whispered
passwords
i hyperventilate into it
with resignation upon
each casting of a socially
distant wave
splashing between crests—
a sense of security swells
in my chest as i drown in
absolute safety...
"pest bag"
©2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020 at 9:34 PM UTC
a keeping of structure framed into the confines
of expectations for readers who are by far more
educated and better read than if i can just keep
to writing within those experience perimeters of
uhhh, someone else—
who claims to have seen that the world is about
roughly the size of a really really big asteroid,
hiding behind the thumb of an astronaut floating
some distance away from the pad i wrote my
last poem on a quarter-sheet of tissue paper
with a china marker.
*As per the vocational experts of my youth;
i may well have qualified for the position of
"document shredder",
or even the author of small gift books—*
—had ANY of this material fallen into
the wrong hands...
"freeverse"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Aug 10, 2020
Aug 10, 2020 at 6:55 AM UTC
dark fluids unwelcomely
invade relentlessly into
materials unprepared
creeping brisk black hot
indiscriminant and unbound
consuming lust for gravity
over the edge
down the legs
onto my lap
down my legs
over my edge
into me—
offensively...
"coffee-brake"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Aug 25, 2020
Aug 25, 2020 at 7:08 AM UTC
i felt a presence as i walked
past its shadow between
restless sunbeams and
lazy dark patches
too small to fill a stadium and
too light to resist a breeze,
it could not muster the most
muted sigh of thunder
still, it singled me out from acres
of trees and multi-laid squares
of rooftop hide-aways
and followed—
to send a message of being
to an insignificant recipient
through a small break within
divided thoughts, into a brief
opening underneath—
a single drop, into a
downpour of
tears
"the cloud"
© 2008 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Sep 7, 2020
Sep 7, 2020 at 5:58 AM UTC
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Among the constellations
sail upside-down
the vessels of old men who
have risen from their
earth bound material
keeping with them the footwear
they had on in that final moment
when each saw their remains
through The Divine Mirror:
two are embracing the masts
for unrenewable security
one grips the railing, convinced
he may fall back
still another holds tightly to the
chains of his anchor
But one lies face up on the deck,
content that his reflections will
never haunt him
he holds his hand out, extending
fingers into a celestial calm,
causing wakes
a destiny uncertain,
he flings his shoes
downward—
back into the sky...
"finding grace above the seas"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
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Oct 3, 2020
Oct 3, 2020 at 8:22 AM UTC
they float in rusty rouge waters
as fog steams upward, obscuring
various uncanned flotsam
white shapes of vocabular form
disperse into random orientations
entangled by processed seagreens
i saw the letter 'k' rise to the surface,
only to slip below again as other
consonants recomposed
with a single dip of my spoon,
seven of these lifted from
their salty wakes form
a simple line of
characters—
spelling
nothing...
"unremarkable soup"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Aug 28, 2020
Aug 28, 2020 at 7:21 AM UTC
to be a bird of great wing,
pulling across the folds
of cloudy space
intimately familiar of each
turn between misty
white finials
with a quick flap—
out of reach,
into the opening of a
grey mountain—
evading the glimpse of
all but the sharpest
earthbound
eye...
"that space between mists"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Aug 23, 2020
Aug 23, 2020 at 10:52 AM UTC
im not forty-five just yet~
the picnic table to celebrate this
occasion was likely constructed
in the 1960's just as the illusion
of security began to unravel
it will have marks cut into it from
a paring knife some kid snuck out
of his mother's napsack to
scratch in a few here-and-there notches,
juvenile swirlies and crisscross patterns
expressing out with what little language
he could muster at the time
and —of course— some initials
two letters representing a presence
which will later metamorphosize this
simple gathering point into somebody's
threshold between the sky and the grave—
a horizon cruel, unyielding and
dead straight
i wonder how many have sat there, pondering
the timelines carved into this rest area where
forty-five years of inertia will be spent in a
long venting breath
the picnic basket will be packed light when my
day comes, observing in the company of old and
weathered timbers, feeling the etchmarks with
worn fingertips for a name i never was...
"forty-five"
© 2009 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Aug 22, 2020
Aug 22, 2020 at 12:07 PM UTC
One day i had a detailed look
at a 24 inch machine scale and
pondered some new ways to
relate to the sizes of things
some "inch" scales are in gradients of
decimals and i see them divided into
tens, those tens in turn divided to
even smaller tens, thus~
1.00 = 1 inch
0.10 = 1/10 th inch
0.01 = 1/100th inch
1/100th of an inch is very small but i see
certain things that my mind can measure,
like the size of the Earth— a little less than
eight thousand miles in diameter.
i can see a mile, but not thousands,
so my magic scale says:
1" = 1,000 mi, thus
Earth = about 8"
i imagine holding Earth in my hand
like a small beach ball, then i figure
that the moon is about 2 1/4" big.
how far away is it, i wonder ?
let me grab a tape measure :)
given what i have on hand, now there
is a basketball and a tennis ball lying
some 20 feet apart from each other
in the back yard
i look upon all this and fathom it in—
but this vision now zooms upon my "Earth" ball
with the scale situated conveniently next to it.
detailing the texture of its surface, my eyes
become disproportionately larger than my brain—
observing the Space Station
cruising about 0.15 above it,
the clouds hovering at 0.01,
and further still through the winds of upper distances,
descending between the smallest of lines to my
mere figment of a presence at
1/100th the size
of this tiny
period
dot
.
— leaving me to wonder how
i could possibly have even
glimpsed all of this—
from way down
Here...
"Scale"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Aug 8, 2020
Aug 8, 2020 at 9:19 AM UTC
second hand pushes up
the weight of minutes,
in turn lifting hours
it struggles climbing
from seven to eight
slipping back a bit
by nine it trembles
but inserts itself
notch by notch
the last fifteen seconds
are desperations of
loud ticks
and when the twelve is
reached, it brief rest
is pushed overtime—
plunging straight down
to the six again,
loosely swinging.
the minute felt a slight
nudge forward, but the
hour paid little attention...
"the inertia of a moment"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Aug 26, 2020
Aug 26, 2020 at 6:29 AM UTC
.
lights spin backwards in the awakening
of midnight with all the youthful bodies
moving in reverse to it's rhythm
one moves naught because of his wish
to step forward against the flow and
is thus fixed
stationary
a too-late-to-adjust suspension, the view
from his seat for the upcoming show
is his only companion
he is most eager to be drawn into the
perimeter of the stage with his bouquet
of wrinkled dollar bills
stripping down to a personal submission,
he presents to her his graying embers
and with a grin~
she takes the green from the blush,
exchanging it for a golden touch
he smiles,
with a wink, she spins away with
a quick stomp of her heel
he smiles,
he returns to his seat to sip down
a drink that fizzled out years
before she was born—
he grins...
"a dance for the humble"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Sep 17, 2020
Sep 17, 2020 at 8:33 PM UTC
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a total instrument package
constructed with all of the
brain's carefully deliberated
intents channeled into them,
one transmits to another what
words will never enunciate
without a multitude of
sentences—
that which spoken
will never touch...
"the hands"
© 2020 by Seranaea Jones
all rights reserved
Sep 30, 2020
Sep 30, 2020 at 7:07 AM UTC