"torrenting" poems
Remember the days when our shoes were stolen by the earth.
And false Truths could only be read
On purple stained Popsicle sticks.
When we were willingly kidnapped by the
antihero's of our Fantasy.
And Stockholm Syndrome devoured us whole.
When false prophets graffitied their wisdom onto bathroom stalls.
While we washed our religions down the sink.
And our purpose along with it.
When the letters of every books pages flowed into us
Like a torrenting river we struggled to make sense of
But reinvented us all the same.
When we didn't believe a friends last words
Could be spoken through a mouth in the neck.
And the whisper we'd hear would fall victim to our failing memories.
When we met the loves our lives everyday of the passing decade.
How our hearts shattered into countless parts.
Yet we loved through the pieces of it all the same.
Perhaps these recollections have faded.
Perhaps they still reside here.
Or are mixed in with catalogs of fiction,
So that we can learn to make sense of all these things.
Sep 17, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM UTC
I know the price
that I play with
everyday
gambling my life
my mind
with a toss of the dice
torrenting a storm of knowledge
from the well of the secrets of life
trying to find the code
to let me be free
its millions of exabytes
of incomputable ********
that clogs the systems of life
and yet it brings me no closer
to understanding her
I may find the meaning
of life and the universe
but that
is not what I want
I want to understand you
Us if there could be an us
But I know the price
that I play with
everyday
gambling my life
my mind
with a toss of the dice
I play with dice made of
bones from the old gods carved
by my mind and soul
as I slayed them with a blade
made from my heart
stronger than diamond
sharper than any steel
more powerful than black holes
brighter than the core of the stars in the skies
I was here when the universe was created
and I will be here when the universe ends
with a whisper and maybe then I will get my
answer...
Dec 12, 2011
Dec 12, 2011 at 11:24 PM UTC
Rains falls hard against the sheets of woven tile roofs,
torrenting down off their sides and flooding
the narrows in between the houses.
Two new lovers splash up a good deal
of water,
running gaily into and out of sight,
a shrill shriek of excitement and a deep laugh still echoing against the gray-blue bricks, lit gold-green in places by hanging lamps on wires,
higher up, above the thin, many windowed walls.
White purple flash. Crack of lightning.
Thunder rattles the sobbing windowpane.
A baby upstairs cries out and is soon soothed.
I think only of dinner and of you.
I will eat bulb-onion soup, with freshly picked mint.
And I will consume you,
raw.
Aug 21, 2017
Aug 21, 2017 at 8:53 PM UTC
Tiny, does the sun go
Followed by the snow down
Ever as a shower in steam
Shallow, goes the systems
Out like a fire, rising
Sparks and they spread throughout the brain
Mythic, misting asteroids are crashing on the brakes
Swerving and you’re missing but you’re christ-like all the same
Glyphs are losing meaning on displays of melted grass
Gasses matronize a pattern, tanning on the mass
Squirming, does the chimp go
Crashing through the planet
Taking selfies with the blood and its core
Comment on my face
See, stressing for this weekend
Acting like you’ve been to space at all before
I would be an astronaut but who would beam me back
As it’s clearly known that Texas ain’t now on the map
Piling into a void, a horror seldom met
Practicing a breathing technique as it’s time for bed
Forward can we all go
Float and look away from
The past as none can spin themselves awise
Sky’s black in eye
And masking in between
A passing glance of our in-passing souls demise
Mourning what’s a bed of little matter accidents
Morning corks the breath in which we sigh its savageness
Storming takes the moon across our bodies limp orbit
Torrenting that morbid, now red heavenly orphan
The tears look dried
We exercise
Our broken, fated pioneer
This sense, this blear
We’ll all ascend
In death us surely owed a new frontier
Nov 7, 2018
Nov 7, 2018 at 10:51 AM UTC