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"somnolent" poems
Dear diabolic debutante / Spawn of the unfathomable abyss of blackness / Daughter of dreadful dead desire / Black-shrouded sinister sister of celestial gloom before whose imperious gaze the heavens fall silent / Whip-lash girl-child of the graves whose pallid visage kindles the myriad infernal fires / Autocratic vampiress of lunar doom whose winding-cloth enfolds the thousand horrors of blood-drenched nightmare / Thou that wanderest the cypress-crested hills of funereal necropolises / Whose icy glance cracks the ungraven tombstones of utter desolation / Empress of night and madness / Who stalks the locked and shadowed hallways of unhallowed thought / Whose burial-boat glides the still waters over Lethe’s silent depths to the unglimpsed isle of eternal mourning / Whose parapets tower above the fiefdoms of quotidian banality / Whose flying buttresses overlook the Stygian waters of the forgotten drowned denizens of damnation / Whose unshackled dungeons open to worlds of regal splendor / Whose spires pierce dark skies where oblivion buries the ruined cities of revelry under the drifting clouds of leaden time / Oh maiden of melancholic alchemy whose petrified passions transmute base metal into pure gold… May the gibbous moon of equinox shine its baleful eye upon you; may you tread in sacramental calm the winding starlit paths of somnolent cemeteries; may my unmixed metaphors unveil in delirium their parabolic mysteries before the smoldering altar of your uninterpretable allegory; may the favor of your scorn forever lay me out, embalmed, undead, on the cold stone of merciless reality. Behold: in cryptic script of spectral apparition, in tracery of coded illumination, amidst the dawning rays of torment I write thine unknown name on the threshold of daylight. And from within the mortared wall of self I speak forth from my sepulcher the Sibylline utterance, unsought, unheard, undreamt: JUST WANTED TO SAY ‘HI’ !
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 9:15 PM UTC
Ω Gothic Postcard Ω
Dear diabolic debutante / Spawn of the unfathomable abyss of blackness / Daughter of dreadful dead desire / Black-shrouded sinister sister of celestial gloom before whose imperious gaze the heavens fall silent / Whip-lash girl-child of the graves whose pallid visage kindles the myriad infernal fires / Autocratic vampiress of lunar doom whose winding-cloth enfolds the thousand horrors of blood-drenched nightmare / Thou that wanderest the cypress-crested hills of funereal necropolises / Whose icy glance cracks the ungraven tombstones of utter desolation / Empress of night and madness / Who stalks the locked and shadowed hallways of unhallowed thought / Whose burial-boat glides the still waters over Lethe’s silent depths to the unglimpsed isle of eternal mourning / Whose parapets tower above the fiefdoms of quotidian banality / Whose flying buttresses overlook the Stygian waters of the forgotten drowned denizens of damnation / Whose unshackled dungeons open to worlds of regal splendor / Whose spires pierce dark skies where oblivion buries the ruined cities of revelry under the drifting clouds of leaden time / Oh maiden of melancholic alchemy whose petrified passions transmute base metal into pure gold… May the gibbous moon of equinox shine its baleful eye upon you; may you tread in sacramental calm the winding starlit paths of somnolent cemeteries; may my unmixed metaphors unveil in delirium their parabolic mysteries before the smoldering altar of your uninterpretable allegory; may the favor of your scorn forever lay me out, embalmed, undead, on the cold stone of merciless reality. Behold: in cryptic script of spectral apparition, in tracery of coded illumination, amidst the dawning rays of torment I write thine unknown name on the threshold of daylight. And from within the mortared wall of self I speak forth from my sepulcher the Sibylline utterance, unsought, unheard, undreamt: JUST WANTED TO SAY ‘HI’ !
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Parenting organizing the day, while the baby room adjacent makes dreaming rock n' roll noises siren calls to lay in bed, semi-alert, on guard duty, scheming about dis n' dat, you are sleeping, dreaming, wide awake seeing, multitasking eyes closed simultaneously. lesser of a poet, more a notate-er, list keeper, note taker, arguing with yourself inside the head, actually feeling the thoughts coursing, lurking, seeing both sides now, parentally, washing the dishes of the hours and years ahead. while the woman-mother makes her soprano dreaming noises, you laugh at the orchestra of ******* sighing somnolent noises, a cadenza of love dancing in your irresistible wide awake dreams. paying the bills, lying in the dark, you wonder-worry about the agenda unknown that will overgrow you, fast creeping up the grain of your skin, ivy on stone skin walls. lala lala you borrow baby's lullaby, yourself calming, keeping time, silly rhyming, organizing the days ahead in you head, while, recording the harmonies of sensory inputs. the dark provides the cloak where you alone feel and hear the worry and laugh lines knitting into a single stitch of parenting. 1/20/2013
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 11:02 AM UTC
Parenting (the baby monitor)
belaboring hurt-bells of twilight outside there is a furious wind sweeping the sour-faced pavement. the helm of the morning fits through the pinecones. through the dandelion, the diadem of some mystic flower, the flurry of children and the fury of the populace. i know whence the wind stirs cold flame from the many a dead stones, sequined floor and the dreary stillicide of night. our bodies rise to the sun that is a full woman or a ripe apple or a half-bitten moon in glare and when her lips purse there is pang in the wind that blows austere beneath the foot of hills in ruin. let the night come later than a bird's secret sojourn, or the cicada's enigma. let the cathedral of my heart quiver later than the unsheathing of the night's bone but in the twilight, when the skies are bruised with silence and somnolent without voice my hands shall leap into the wind and make do, the belaboring hurt-bells of twilight. no more than a crepuscular twining of a sad vine on a melancholy hymn that makes fuller with its tender maneuvers, the trundling in love's wearisome vessel.
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Sep 14, 2015
Sep 14, 2015 at 11:20 PM UTC
Belabouring Hurt-bells Of Twilight
Plant a Woman "When a woman plants a tree, she plants herself." John Muir See the photo, on a stone walkway in a park on an island, somewhere in New York State *Years after first encountered, Returned this day, purposely, To trod this bricked-path Where a solitary brick, these special words carved. This brick, a patient lady-poem in waiting, Required a search-and-locate mission, To verify my memorized eyesight, Freed to release these words, Years in the forming, from whence first espied.* **When a woman plants a tree, she plants herself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** Much less than obvious, Import of said statement, Complex, notes, scents, questions... Perhaps this is the thus, the why, Why this po-effort, somnolent, yet disquieted, In recesses, drew lines on the wall, with one line Slashed across, for every month, It gestated, unborn, but not offering to die, It did not come effortlessly. I am seed of man, Planted within woman. I am a tree of  iLife , My seed planted within You, iReader. I am as much woman as man, Perhaps more so... Wrote you, told you, I Speak Woman^ Perhaps more so... Even better than man. No shame, I rise with the dawn, To bake the bread, Alongside her, her secrets, she has, need learning, Her bread, raisins, cinnamon and secreted inside, Wisdom of loving kindness. She scatters seeds with recklessness, Who can know where wheat will be needed, Someday, her children exiled? Forest investor, tree planter, Futures she sees, where others see but wood, I follow her lead, for I cannot but fail to Prosper, when on paths tread, Formed, excavated by her footfalls. I give her rubies, I give her gold, When I ask where it be, She laughs and says adorning the tongues Of the hungry and in need. So I give her more. Indeed, I plant my seed inside her daily, Let her plant trees as she desires, Her forest, the refuge of my old age, So she plants trees, as I Plant a Woman. Thanks be, that her trees, Come from her ***** Now I understand Mr.Muir.
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Sep 2, 2013
Sep 2, 2013 at 3:02 PM UTC
Plant a Woman
Plant a Woman "When a woman plants a tree, she plants herself." John Muir See the photo, on a stone walkway in a park on an island, somewhere in New York State *Years after first encountered, Returned this day, purposely, To trod this bricked-path Where a solitary brick, these special words carved. This brick, a patient lady-poem in waiting, Required a search-and-locate mission, To verify my memorized eyesight, Freed to release these words, Years in the forming, from whence first espied.* **When a woman plants a tree, she plants herself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** Much less than obvious, Import of said statement, Complex, notes, scents, questions... Perhaps this is the thus, the why, Why this po-effort, somnolent, yet disquieted, In recesses, drew lines on the wall, with one line Slashed across, for every month, It gestated, unborn, but not offering to die, It did not come effortlessly. I am seed of man, Planted within woman. I am a tree of  iLife , My seed planted within You, iReader. I am as much woman as man, Perhaps more so... Wrote you, told you, I Speak Woman^ Perhaps more so... Even better than man. No shame, I rise with the dawn, To bake the bread, Alongside her, her secrets, she has, need learning, Her bread, raisins, cinnamon and secreted inside, Wisdom of loving kindness. She scatters seeds with recklessness, Who can know where wheat will be needed, Someday, her children exiled? Forest investor, tree planter, Futures she sees, where others see but wood, I follow her lead, for I cannot but fail to Prosper, when on paths tread, Formed, excavated by her footfalls. I give her rubies, I give her gold, When I ask where it be, She laughs and says adorning the tongues Of the hungry and in need. So I give her more. Indeed, I plant my seed inside her daily, Let her plant trees as she desires, Her forest, the refuge of my old age, So she plants trees, as I Plant a Woman. Thanks be, that her trees, Come from her ***** Now I understand Mr.Muir.
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It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine, Tugging at banks, until they seemed Bland belly-sounds in somnolent troughs, That the air was heavy with the breath of these swine, The breath of turgid summer, and Heavy with thunder's rattapallax, That the man who erected this cabin, planted This field, and tended it awhile, Knew not the quirks of imagery, That the hours of his indolent, arid days, Grotesque with this nosing in banks, This somnolence and rattapallax, Seemed to suckle themselves on his arid being, As the swine-like rivers suckled themselves While they went seaward to the sea-mouths.
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Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs.
She came into my life a karmic explosion over a pristine midnight blue upstate New York lake, its breath damp and warm and sweet. Gasping, labored efforts expelled a preganant breath, a prelude to life. Blackflies engaged in rutualistic seance. Lethagic mosquitos emerged from the evening's sweet mist. But then raged into frantic spirals, squealing out futile messages. Timid pines, guardians of the ancient site, loosed their rigid stance, Prickly spines shivered to the ground. Anxiously, they awaited rumors that would quell the fetal dread that flowed through veins, invading their bliss. A bulky mass stirred from somnolent state in that mud-lined basin, releasing brown ribbons of agitation, and inciting a ravenous hunger. Friendly galaxies, former guides in his dream state, abandoned his cause, flickering a vague adieu. Having cradled him for so long, the slick muddy floor now sent him flailing to and fro, an ungainly dance, embarassing to watch. Where once he thrived, he now gasped for air.
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Sep 10, 2012
Sep 10, 2012 at 12:10 AM UTC
For Bob
*He is My Azure Dreambird, (The Sovereign of Songbirds) That soars upon Skies of Resonance. His sapphire wings Weightless by valor, Hallowed every doubt That Cursed my shadow Until credence reigned. He is The Musicality of my Soul, That I climbed as A stairway Into Gates of Aether Upon Porcelain keys Of an impearled Grand Piano. His sound emittance Ascended in frequency until Pitch became subliminal For height ceased to be Height, And depth, Ceased to be Depth, It was Ineffable harmony And resolution became effortless With The touch of his hand. He is The Wings of the Dawn, A Sweeping Rapture That raised Me Beyond the stratosphere Until graced by Untarnished embrace Of the Baptistery of the Sun. I burst From Light’s Intemerate Womb, Renewed and Gazed upon Terraqueous Gaia Then for once, (Yes, for all eternity) Succumbed to Faith in the Transcendence Of his tender affections. Woe was existence Before His lightwaves radiated Within my heart, For when I purged my pulse Of that quaking rhythm And Hollow cries Upon his ears, He stood moved And remained Doughty in his devotion To me. In that moment I fathomed his soul Glistened O, for he had not forsook me. I bear a pilgrimage. One sought to be Heard, Seen, Felt, Breathed, And Divined By my Once Somnolent spirit Been Roused By the incendiary thew of His ardor. My revenant soul Hath emerged from The Chrysalis of Time as The Apotheosis of Astral Flame (A Reverberation of the Cosmo-Plexus of Love) That since The Days of Time Immemorial Guided by the Whisper of the stars, I now cleave To that celestial susurrus: To the solace buried beneath The Soil of Afflicition (For anguish was all I knew) In repose Yet yearning to be Resurrected In The Dream of Acquisition, To for eternity behold The timeless fervor That doth layeth In His heart*
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Aug 14, 2016
Aug 14, 2016 at 11:52 AM UTC
The Apotheosis of Astral Flame (Originally Written on August 18th, 2016)
*He is My Azure Dreambird, (The Sovereign of Songbirds) That soars upon Skies of Resonance. His sapphire wings Weightless by valor, Hallowed every doubt That Cursed my shadow Until credence reigned. He is The Musicality of my Soul, That I climbed as A stairway Into Gates of Aether Upon Porcelain keys Of an impearled Grand Piano. His sound emittance Ascended in frequency until Pitch became subliminal For height ceased to be Height, And depth, Ceased to be Depth, It was Ineffable harmony And resolution became effortless With The touch of his hand. He is The Wings of the Dawn, A Sweeping Rapture That raised Me Beyond the stratosphere Until graced by Untarnished embrace Of the Baptistery of the Sun. I burst From Light’s Intemerate Womb, Renewed and Gazed upon Terraqueous Gaia Then for once, (Yes, for all eternity) Succumbed to Faith in the Transcendence Of his tender affections. Woe was existence Before His lightwaves radiated Within my heart, For when I purged my pulse Of that quaking rhythm And Hollow cries Upon his ears, He stood moved And remained Doughty in his devotion To me. In that moment I fathomed his soul Glistened O, for he had not forsook me. I bear a pilgrimage. One sought to be Heard, Seen, Felt, Breathed, And Divined By my Once Somnolent spirit Been Roused By the incendiary thew of His ardor. My revenant soul Hath emerged from The Chrysalis of Time as The Apotheosis of Astral Flame (A Reverberation of the Cosmo-Plexus of Love) That since The Days of Time Immemorial Guided by the Whisper of the stars, I now cleave To that celestial susurrus: To the solace buried beneath The Soil of Afflicition (For anguish was all I knew) In repose Yet yearning to be Resurrected In The Dream of Acquisition, To for eternity behold The timeless fervor That doth layeth In His heart*
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reposting a poem from 3 1/2 years ago, when I knew how to write    <> organizing the day, while the baby room renter in the adjacent,, makes dreamy rock n' roll noises, siren calls to stay~lay in bed, tho status of semi-alert, ready to relieve Ernie and Bert, who have the first shift covered soon on guard duty, scheming about dis n' dat, you are sleeping, dreaming, wide awake seeing, multitasking with eyes closed simultaneously. lesser of a poet, more a notate-er, list keeper, note taker, arguing with yourself inside the head, actually feeling the thoughts coursing, lurking, seeing both sides now, parentally, washing the dishes of the hours and years ahead. while the woman-mother makes her soprano dreaming noises, you laugh at the orchestra of ******* sighing somnolent noises, a cadenza of love dancing in your irresistible wide awake dreams. paying the bills, lying in the dark, you wonder-worry about the agenda unknown that will overgrow you, fast creeping up the grain of your skin, ivy on stone skin walls. lala lala you borrow baby's lullaby, yourself for to calming, keeping time, silly rhyming, organizing the days ahead in you head, while, recording the harmonies of sweet sensory inputs. the dark provides the cloak where you alone feel and hear the worry and laugh lines knitting into a single stitch of parenting. 1/20/2013
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Aug 30, 2016
Aug 30, 2016 at 4:39 PM UTC
Parenting (the baby monitor)
then one somnolent night she danced under the misty light her face coated with delight an escape from her petty plight reassuring herself it was alright i rolled my eyes and let out a sigh a twitching smile i could not hide as the feeling landed with a smite it was easier if i just denied falling in love with her at first sight
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021 at 2:52 AM UTC
her
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 4:47 PM UTC
A Funebre In Plaridel, Bulacan
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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when the world within me is loud - constant cacophony, clanging, clashing - I hastily throw pieces of my soul into large, nondescript bags, and I take a trip outside of myself as my heart races and my legs shake. but when the world is soft - silent, somnolent, soothing - I arrive home from the trip and slowly unpack my bags. I take deep, cleansing breaths  as I put my soul back together.
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Dec 27, 2021
Dec 27, 2021 at 12:57 PM UTC
coming home to myself.
Your soul; all its liberation. Amorphous, I see it in my dreams in the form of its purity. Crystalline. I can never catch it But it captures me. My only caprice is to love and chase after it. The feeling I feel from all your presence; Your dulcet soul Encompassing me, I am enraptured, and can not let go, You're the light You are ethereal. The energy you bring to me is exuberant. Finally I've found my felicity. And I am free. The way you just exist in your form , On your own Incorporeal in your world. Thanks for letting me in. You fly and so naturally just exist, Contentedly pleasing, So beautifully incandescent. In all my dreams where you are my vision, I see you absolutely quiescent. All your raidiance giving me what I needed. I can't find on earth What I find in you. You in your power defying gravity, In a sapphire mist, in your own portion of the world, where darkness never lives Nor visits. A place so serene, That is why I only see you in my dreams. When I am somnolent, and bound to fall down and lay silent, Witnessing your spherical tranquility with no vestige when I awake, You take me to my highest point when I am destined to break. You are transcendent and truly amazing. I love you in all your lilt sussuration.
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 5:21 PM UTC
Untitled
My greatest fear is that my mind will become languid all these nerves that buzz and fill will someday become a vegetable somnolent times will set upon me a spell from which I cannot recover lazily and languorously I shall dwell an intellect without vigour too much comfort too much praise too much ease shall push me off the cliff of complacency and I shall fall without cognizance a mental suicide, awareness in deep freeze a hardened blank consciousness that needs to be broken through excavated from a  grave of self-righteousness pushed beyond self-set limits melted until the core is seen I need to feel the pain and hurt cry briny tears and experience grief need to feel unsure undecided obscure myself in anxiety make sure the inner ocean stays unfrozen - Vijayalakshmi Harish         12.09.2012 Copyright © Vijayalakshmi Harish
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 4:35 AM UTC
Axing the Frozen Sea
Sa pamamagitan ng kabutihan ng Kanyang Kabutihan ~~~ *the message arrive by private telegraph line, "write," she behests, more than a mortal's requests, an authoritative pleading, an urgent prompting with an element of divinity attached, almost a command by virtue of her virtue, who am I to refuse, though the writing gene/genie, somnolent, suppressed, quiescent, melatonined by the pills the life force feeds us from a bottle lonely labeled, "whether you like it or not" reckless explore the venues you would prefer to never venture, so, this poem becomes her, this poem be comes her, this poem be comely for and because of her unbare chambers that have rusted shut, be unafraid, she seances me telepathically, in the poet's way, a crying smile accentuated with "write of the titles you have confessed to the body's mind inquisitor that be stored in the warehouses of thy heart" this irrecusable, willing bidding, sneaks in the back door, so easy oiled opened by virtue of her virtue seven years of grain Pharaoh stored in preparatory for the lean ones that inevitable come yes, have so many would be's gestated, but not fully formed, none adequate to honor sufficient her comely behest thus commissioned, my purposeful mission, to honor her once more, with a simple honorific, her wish, no matter how couched, t'is my duty to fulfill so here, full and filled I grant her wishes, with impoverished verses inadequate, for you know her too, as she full and fills us all* ***by virtue of her virtue***
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Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 4:54 PM UTC
Behest: By Virtue of Her Virtue
Sa pamamagitan ng kabutihan ng Kanyang Kabutihan ~~~ *the message arrive by private telegraph line, "write," she behests, more than a mortal's requests, an authoritative pleading, an urgent prompting with an element of divinity attached, almost a command by virtue of her virtue, who am I to refuse, though the writing gene/genie, somnolent, suppressed, quiescent, melatonined by the pills the life force feeds us from a bottle lonely labeled, "whether you like it or not" reckless explore the venues you would prefer to never venture, so, this poem becomes her, this poem be comes her, this poem be comely for and because of her unbare chambers that have rusted shut, be unafraid, she seances me telepathically, in the poet's way, a crying smile accentuated with "write of the titles you have confessed to the body's mind inquisitor that be stored in the warehouses of thy heart" this irrecusable, willing bidding, sneaks in the back door, so easy oiled opened by virtue of her virtue seven years of grain Pharaoh stored in preparatory for the lean ones that inevitable come yes, have so many would be's gestated, but not fully formed, none adequate to honor sufficient her comely behest thus commissioned, my purposeful mission, to honor her once more, with a simple honorific, her wish, no matter how couched, t'is my duty to fulfill so here, full and filled I grant her wishes, with impoverished verses inadequate, for you know her too, as she full and fills us all* ***by virtue of her virtue***
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After Epiphany 1 Epiphany is the door into winter Into those bleak, grey days, into the cold When time itself is huddled in the dark Asleep, suspended in the drifting mist In clouds of icy mist among the trees Above the somnolent, shivering earth The brief, pale sun in silence disappears The moon in silence rises high to watch Over a world asleep until far spring Epiphany is the door into winter
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Jan 7, 2017
Jan 7, 2017 at 6:07 PM UTC
After Epiphany 1
In the morning, I gather my thoughts of yesterday Like the foraging chipmunk, collecting acorns And stuffing them miserly in my jowls The past is sustenance for a somnolent soul As age condemns my faculties I pull, from my once copious jowl A jewel of sorts A garnet set in fool’s gold My memory is manufactured Assembled and disassembled No longer what was or is or will be But was and is and never has been I confine my thoughts to winter Where barren fields and sterile trees Offer less to recollect And empty my jaws of these useless reminiscences
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 7:11 AM UTC
Alzheimer's
They had *** everywhere. In the car, Parked at Costco, She teased him, Bra-less under an unbuttoned shirt, Her agile hand coated with a thin primer of Vaseline, She stroked him slowly, precisely with a twist, As somnolent sad faced suburban Sherpa, Their neighbours and fellow citizens, Hauled their apocalypse supplies   Across pristine acres of fresh asphalt, Doped by fear, Trapped inside the pixels of an infinite routine, Unaware and Unable to imagine life as a movie. Out on the highway, as he drove, She pulled up her skirt And pulled down her tube top Trucker’s horns roared their musical approval, The benefits of a long haul driver were scant and skimpy, Her ***** alive and anonymous, Guilt free and aroused. They ****** in washrooms, Molested each other on escalators, Texted friends while they copulated half clothed, Shared their pride with angels dressed as ****** And counted their ******* like winnings at a casino, Excited by the number and the game, Their brains hot-wired, Life a blur of alternating currents of sensation. Death is constant state of ****** he told her, When we leave this organic realm, When we have finally turned the oceans into pudding, And caged all of life, When it is over, We will enter into a cosmic stream of pleasure. This is why the universe is expanding, he told her, Pleasure is a colossal force, The big bang was God’s ****** after all, Her consequence the stars, the galaxies, The dark palette of her entropy. He was ******* her on a balcony while watching the moon And waving to the woman with binoculars When she asked, Why is it so difficult, Why do so many ignite pain and cant despair, How did the curl and cling of hate Take such deep root, she asked. We fear death too well, he said, And Within the quick boundary of this moment As they searched their waft and scent for clues, They heard a whisper. Inside the swell, On top of a crest of acid clear thought And without regret, They forgave destiny, Only to fly to the ground and beyond.
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Feb 22, 2016
Feb 22, 2016 at 2:28 PM UTC
******
They had *** everywhere. In the car, Parked at Costco, She teased him, Bra-less under an unbuttoned shirt, Her agile hand coated with a thin primer of Vaseline, She stroked him slowly, precisely with a twist, As somnolent sad faced suburban Sherpa, Their neighbours and fellow citizens, Hauled their apocalypse supplies   Across pristine acres of fresh asphalt, Doped by fear, Trapped inside the pixels of an infinite routine, Unaware and Unable to imagine life as a movie. Out on the highway, as he drove, She pulled up her skirt And pulled down her tube top Trucker’s horns roared their musical approval, The benefits of a long haul driver were scant and skimpy, Her ***** alive and anonymous, Guilt free and aroused. They ****** in washrooms, Molested each other on escalators, Texted friends while they copulated half clothed, Shared their pride with angels dressed as ****** And counted their ******* like winnings at a casino, Excited by the number and the game, Their brains hot-wired, Life a blur of alternating currents of sensation. Death is constant state of ****** he told her, When we leave this organic realm, When we have finally turned the oceans into pudding, And caged all of life, When it is over, We will enter into a cosmic stream of pleasure. This is why the universe is expanding, he told her, Pleasure is a colossal force, The big bang was God’s ****** after all, Her consequence the stars, the galaxies, The dark palette of her entropy. He was ******* her on a balcony while watching the moon And waving to the woman with binoculars When she asked, Why is it so difficult, Why do so many ignite pain and cant despair, How did the curl and cling of hate Take such deep root, she asked. We fear death too well, he said, And Within the quick boundary of this moment As they searched their waft and scent for clues, They heard a whisper. Inside the swell, On top of a crest of acid clear thought And without regret, They forgave destiny, Only to fly to the ground and beyond.
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Our moments collect in concentric rings about the nexus Of a first embrace, adorned with Autumnal colors and scents - We lovers blend, cupped gently below the stir of flecks and dapple. Each leaf high up quivers in the bouquets and knows when to let go, Fly and fall to earth. Whispers from a rustling canopy climb down the bark encasements Of these tall and somnolent trees, thirsty leaves that clatter and kiss, Wink awake – brilliant – hold our gaze and suspend our hearts. In a pirouette amidst the amity of recollection and premonition - We shimmer in an iridescence of saffron on copper – remember this. Moments light up, each one, for just an instant, the last of our lives; Each conveniently the beginning of forever and forever smiles at us. Rippling across the cycles of solstice and equinox, we radiate – A nostalgic procession toward unmade memories, like tree rings. We fly and fall in love.
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 9:04 PM UTC
tree rung
In Africa the lissome eucalyptus leaves Sharply ovoid, a washed celadon, Turn their silvery backs, yield, bend with The promise of on-coming rain. You taught me this Sign, this tree-voiced prediction, long ago, among The tenderly sloping, densely viridian hills And heavy, somnolent, rolling fogs of Iowa. And so, I turn my back. I yield, oh, how I yield. But, you didn’t foresee, didn’t know How, much later, my heart would Flake and flay How great sheets of myself Would peel, would fold Would slough off just like The bark, the back of those massive whitened eucalyptus trunks, you Didn’t, couldn’t foretell how this long union Scars, clings, sinks so deep, tattoos itself so that eucalyptus-like, despite Repeated rain lashings, leaf bowings, droopings and sun decimated leavings My heart, my soul sheds, molts, reforms, renews itself and just as those Sharpened leaves arch and curve and arc and sway So I bend, I turn, I give in, I give in To the chafing wind, to the scouring hurt, to The on-coming African Rain.
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 9:18 AM UTC
Eucalyptus Revised
I am addicted to your velvet fatigue Hypnotize me with your somnolent eyes Leave me with nothing but intrigue I swear I could move a mountain in my sleep In our liquid mercury dream is where we shall always meet Polaris guides our hearts tonight In a silent conspiracy A plight we might never see As fate would make it be Again I’m falling asleep beneath your sheets A dream so warm and so complete Let there be no boundaries No barriers to mark where one ends and the other begins Let’s move as one shape in the shadows And invite the darkness to come in Your landscapes compete with those of Eden I must be lying beside a god veiled as a man I want nothing more but to taste you Never let the night waste you The once forbidden fruit that is now mine You’ve opened your heart’s doors so wide And I can’t wait to get inside The hands of the clock strike the darkest hour I feel the pleasure of being held within your power And just as you protect me The moon hangs vigilant in the sky Your gentle whispers are a lullaby And I wish the sun would never rise Let there be no boundaries No barriers to mark where one ends and the other begins Let’s move as one shape in the shadows And invite the darkness to come in I’m addicted to your velvet fatigue And Polaris guides our hands tonight Hold me beneath your dark sheets And lead the way to eternity
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Jun 10, 2010
Jun 10, 2010 at 8:58 AM UTC
Polaris
i am a survivor, i am a scavenger, i am a man with no shame. i am an artist, i am a writer, i am an iconoclast. i am a lover, i am a creator, i am a destroyer. i am quality, i am worthless, i am absence. i am man, i am conqueror, i am world-ender. i am an addict, i am old, i am wizened. i am free, i am young, i am unnurtured. i am secret, i am becoming, i am a wreck. i am a shadow, i am oblivious, i am obvious. i am obscene, i am abhorrent, i am hidden. i am a seeker, i abstain – i am a liar. i am a deceiver, i am an actor, i am unknowable. i am entirety, i am citizen, i am insolence. i am thought, i am concept, i am revoked. i am wanderer, i am thoughtless, i am lost. i am undying, i am inured, i am fleeting. i am alive, i am mythologized, i am end. i am a thief, i am a monster, i am alive. i am a philosopher, i am a thinker, i am superfluous. i am good, i am evil, i am unaligned. i am pragmastic, i am irrational, i am common sanity. i am emotional, i am withheld, i am interred. i am new, i am ruined, i am interregna. i am proper, i am erased, i am discrection. i am sought, i am not, i am simple. i am somnolent, i am erratic, i am errancy. i am abstinence, i am uncontrolled, i am the world. i am fraught, i am emptiness, i am humanity. i am dandelion, i am magnolia, i am an albatross. i am talent, i am intelligence, i am fettered. i am here and now, i am then and when, i am done. i am malice, i am harm, i am self-destruction. i am a fighter, i am encephalic, i am lost. i am alone, i am alive, i am free.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 2:46 AM UTC
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i am a survivor, i am a scavenger, i am a man with no shame. i am an artist, i am a writer, i am an iconoclast. i am a lover, i am a creator, i am a destroyer. i am quality, i am worthless, i am absence. i am man, i am conqueror, i am world-ender. i am an addict, i am old, i am wizened. i am free, i am young, i am unnurtured. i am secret, i am becoming, i am a wreck. i am a shadow, i am oblivious, i am obvious. i am obscene, i am abhorrent, i am hidden. i am a seeker, i abstain – i am a liar. i am a deceiver, i am an actor, i am unknowable. i am entirety, i am citizen, i am insolence. i am thought, i am concept, i am revoked. i am wanderer, i am thoughtless, i am lost. i am undying, i am inured, i am fleeting. i am alive, i am mythologized, i am end. i am a thief, i am a monster, i am alive. i am a philosopher, i am a thinker, i am superfluous. i am good, i am evil, i am unaligned. i am pragmastic, i am irrational, i am common sanity. i am emotional, i am withheld, i am interred. i am new, i am ruined, i am interregna. i am proper, i am erased, i am discrection. i am sought, i am not, i am simple. i am somnolent, i am erratic, i am errancy. i am abstinence, i am uncontrolled, i am the world. i am fraught, i am emptiness, i am humanity. i am dandelion, i am magnolia, i am an albatross. i am talent, i am intelligence, i am fettered. i am here and now, i am then and when, i am done. i am malice, i am harm, i am self-destruction. i am a fighter, i am encephalic, i am lost. i am alone, i am alive, i am free.
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Stars scintillates in the sky in this somnolent night while i muse upon my plight with bated breath, i sigh There's no sign of gaiety only a flamboyant sadness in a state of anxiety that's difficult to suppress My eyes becomes misty with tears that fall like rain Trying hard to refuse self pity in order to cope up with this pain I can no longer paint a smile and my eyes fails to shine My heart cease to throb for a while 'cos you're now no longer mine Tears dripping from my eyes Swelled with too much bitterness Here, my tormented heart lies As i wandered in gaping loneliness..
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Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 1:53 AM UTC
Flamboyant Sadness
gather up the things you lust to love and become the world's loneliest human just for a night in a room with blue lights where so many others have once slept as simple cloud sheep when the eyelashes filled themselves with hypnagogia late late late at night ad slowly poured (and poured, and poured) somnolent paint onto the walls which fainted and licked the floors rabbit and ft
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 6:29 PM UTC
ambivalence
***Book One (∞The Psalm of The Star Child∞) The Precursor's Psalm I-V To the Child of The Empyrean. For ye valleity stars shine. (I) ―En Fortissimo 1 Tender with sentimentality, I fathom you, 2 That you draw closer, nigh’ with every waking moment, Closer to ensconce ‘twixt my embrace, 3 That your towering arms May aegis these benighted bones. 4 The Vestibule of Our Souls shall be Assoiled by an Arcadian Eternity, 5 Shall scintillate in my every blooded tear, shed garnetiferously, ―Upon my crucifix, our crucifix: 6 A penance, pardoning our transgressions prognostically Before by romance, we touched erringly. (Se'lah) (II) Celestial Communion 1 O, Star Child, May your beckoning 2 Sow the Seeds of Somnus upon the sanctimony Festering in my faith, 3 (A besmirched hope) Tarnished by my reverenc’d doubt. 4 O Minstrel of Manumission, Will ye sing unto me ye SoulSong? 5 The Womb’d Aethers bleed, The Terraqueous Mother conceives, Gaian a dream, 6 Her Luminous Brethren yearn For the Arbiter of Fates. (Se'lah) (III) Song of Wishes 1 Velleity speaks, It whispers, 2 In the twinkling of the stars. When shall it end, 3 When It has yet to begin? 4 Be still― and become one with all things, As time fades, consciousness begins, 5 The Experiential Cascade: All that was, all that is, & all that shall be, 6 Circular & Cycling, Forevermore. 7 Know that there is a reason, Know that there is a place, 8 Know that there is a person, In this world for you. 9 Open up your heart and see, All you were meant to see. (Se'lah). (IV) Spiritus de Tempus (Zeitgeist of the Future) 1 ―Blooming in Reminiscence The Dreamscape glistens, 2 A Redolent Reverie wafts The Tenuous Air amidst 3 Her Zephry'd Lightwaves & Crystalline Pulsations. 4 Ardently I pine, For thine visage, groping for a rhyme, 5 Whence I can gaze once more upon thine Countenance sublime, 6 All desperations been defied, For thee I reverberate Love, The Spirit of the Times. (Se'lah) (V) Bastion Heart 1 The agony in existentiality Unravels undying piety 2 And Cloistered in cadence of solitude, 3 I, the Somnolent One, Am roused by The Heart’s Resonance. 4 In wanting, there is life, In desirelessness, wanting still, 5 Know thine Power, Indomitable Will: 6 The Couer & The Amour of the Spirit Are immortal. (Se'lah)***
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May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019 at 8:05 AM UTC
The Precursor's Psalms, Book One, Chapters I-V: The Psalms of The Star Child (Originally Written on Saturday, May 18th, 2019)
***Book One (∞The Psalm of The Star Child∞) The Precursor's Psalm I-V To the Child of The Empyrean. For ye valleity stars shine. (I) ―En Fortissimo 1 Tender with sentimentality, I fathom you, 2 That you draw closer, nigh’ with every waking moment, Closer to ensconce ‘twixt my embrace, 3 That your towering arms May aegis these benighted bones. 4 The Vestibule of Our Souls shall be Assoiled by an Arcadian Eternity, 5 Shall scintillate in my every blooded tear, shed garnetiferously, ―Upon my crucifix, our crucifix: 6 A penance, pardoning our transgressions prognostically Before by romance, we touched erringly. (Se'lah) (II) Celestial Communion 1 O, Star Child, May your beckoning 2 Sow the Seeds of Somnus upon the sanctimony Festering in my faith, 3 (A besmirched hope) Tarnished by my reverenc’d doubt. 4 O Minstrel of Manumission, Will ye sing unto me ye SoulSong? 5 The Womb’d Aethers bleed, The Terraqueous Mother conceives, Gaian a dream, 6 Her Luminous Brethren yearn For the Arbiter of Fates. (Se'lah) (III) Song of Wishes 1 Velleity speaks, It whispers, 2 In the twinkling of the stars. When shall it end, 3 When It has yet to begin? 4 Be still― and become one with all things, As time fades, consciousness begins, 5 The Experiential Cascade: All that was, all that is, & all that shall be, 6 Circular & Cycling, Forevermore. 7 Know that there is a reason, Know that there is a place, 8 Know that there is a person, In this world for you. 9 Open up your heart and see, All you were meant to see. (Se'lah). (IV) Spiritus de Tempus (Zeitgeist of the Future) 1 ―Blooming in Reminiscence The Dreamscape glistens, 2 A Redolent Reverie wafts The Tenuous Air amidst 3 Her Zephry'd Lightwaves & Crystalline Pulsations. 4 Ardently I pine, For thine visage, groping for a rhyme, 5 Whence I can gaze once more upon thine Countenance sublime, 6 All desperations been defied, For thee I reverberate Love, The Spirit of the Times. (Se'lah) (V) Bastion Heart 1 The agony in existentiality Unravels undying piety 2 And Cloistered in cadence of solitude, 3 I, the Somnolent One, Am roused by The Heart’s Resonance. 4 In wanting, there is life, In desirelessness, wanting still, 5 Know thine Power, Indomitable Will: 6 The Couer & The Amour of the Spirit Are immortal. (Se'lah)***
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think I shall be springtime; such clumsy scent of the world collapsing not with nets but hands not upon trellis but bodies – sleep shall carry us to inches of terrible speech such somnolent world senses quietness in the rivers of our blood; how murmurously veritable moment leaps forth ripe in the air of such splendidness when it was not mountains but your breasts deep within the Earth of me and I rain cleaving the scent of the world into two separateness until the enormously nude moon plunges within; I shall be a tree and you, a rose or springtide, or everything that blooms, withers, dances – new beginnings;
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Jan 19, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 at 8:39 AM UTC
Nudes: I