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"watchers" poems
Calamitous collapse of structure forged With steel and concrete built for time, Since Roman times a formula endured With engineers additional design. Why, then, did this structure fail, Did mortar crack, did reinforcing strong, Shear and plummet in an instants time To crush and doom this bridges song. In teeming rain a  silence hung Where watchers gaped in stunned awe, A magnitude of devastation lay Pulverized in valley floor. Astonishing this expanse of space Where seconds past, huge edifice, Imbued with its’ charge of lives Unknowingly to meet abyss. Innocence has lost its’ life Blame resounds around the room Someone shall pay the price For negligence in causing doom. Truth be told it’s shared by all For Italy has lagged behind Cost cutting infrastructures’ purse Because of economic bind. Time to reassess the plan Time to weep and bury dead, Clear the rubble from the land Rebuild well then forge ahead. Blame not the engineer Nor the man who drew design, Blame not the hardhat Who poured the concrete in the line. Reassign the budget spend To infrastructure, pay its share For sentiment is running hot To axe the fool who pares the fare. M. Storeman Civil Infrastructure Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND
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Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 10:41 PM UTC
The Genoa Calamity
~weary weighted~ flummoxed are the sea watchers; the long rhythms of sea change reveal only minor modesties, difficult discerned are the tidal subtleties though repetitive thrashing extracts it toll, only the weary-weighted see the true meaning of the beating, knowing full well, it beats for them recalling their early day’d fascination with its endless chaining, now knowing all are similar detained-chained, and  the ******* churning but a cover up masque, they need not longer conceal, an unrevealed confess: water is heavy-weighted, you cannot forever float, constancy is of a thing to be wary, its sadder longevity, a chipping away erosion of wearing, *‘tis is the knelling noise of  sad respite, an unlight lighthouse* ~for Victoria, a year later~
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Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 3:21 PM UTC
weary weighted
THE BABY moon, a canoe, a silver papoose canoe, sails and sails in the Indian west. A ring of silver foxes, a mist of silver foxes, sit and sit around the Indian moon. One yellow star for a runner, and rows of blue stars for more runners, keep a line of watchers. O foxes, baby moon, runners, you are the panel of memory, fire-white writing to-night of the Red Man's dreams. Who squats, legs crossed and arms folded, matching its look against the moon-face, the star-faces, of the West? Who are the Mississippi Valley ghosts, of copper foreheads, riding wiry ponies in the night?-no bridles, love-arms on the pony necks, riding in the night a long old trail? Why do they always come back when the silver foxes sit around the early moon, a silver papoose, in the Indian west?
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Early Moon
I'm head starting the challenging life 12th grade decides my future strife. Herein lies the mystery of tomorrow Destiny of the mighty ship in my carefull row. Not asking for incredible flourishing results But delivering support for my stupendous work. Not asking for imaginative unreachable marks But holding my hands to provide the best of myself. Not asking to pour elixir for hardwork devoid outcome But strolling me through the gates of earnestness. Not asking for your substitution in me But to confront me with your intrepid grace. Not asking for grade ten replica But lending me the same earnest virtue. Help me ignore the incompatible watchers, To provide the least hope of comparing Falling in despair in other's successful fruits. But to help better and improvise my solitary results And shelter me in your house of modesty. No beneficial ranks but the submissive marks that lends a hair to my cognitive efforts To grant me light in the death of night. Let me blossom as tranquily as the sunflower Yet not vanish in the glory of jubliation But gradually offer me petals And extend the reliance day by day. Mindful and heeding my compatible hardwork Finally, let me conquer the glamorous colour Of my utmost individuality. Rehabilating the small hopes intro pristine reality Aware of the hunger turning to lime light To strike a chord for my year before. Take me on your hands, float me through legitimate mistakes, rip me apart in the wave of unquenchable thirst and finally wrap me out as a champion badge of jaded grade twelve. Finally, Bless me God, provide eternal marvels Bless me God, honour the righteous path As the testimony of your judicious grace Bless me God, I'm starting life (grade twelve)
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 2:52 AM UTC
Bless me God, I'm Starting Life
I'm head starting the challenging life 12th grade decides my future strife. Herein lies the mystery of tomorrow Destiny of the mighty ship in my carefull row. Not asking for incredible flourishing results But delivering support for my stupendous work. Not asking for imaginative unreachable marks But holding my hands to provide the best of myself. Not asking to pour elixir for hardwork devoid outcome But strolling me through the gates of earnestness. Not asking for your substitution in me But to confront me with your intrepid grace. Not asking for grade ten replica But lending me the same earnest virtue. Help me ignore the incompatible watchers, To provide the least hope of comparing Falling in despair in other's successful fruits. But to help better and improvise my solitary results And shelter me in your house of modesty. No beneficial ranks but the submissive marks that lends a hair to my cognitive efforts To grant me light in the death of night. Let me blossom as tranquily as the sunflower Yet not vanish in the glory of jubliation But gradually offer me petals And extend the reliance day by day. Mindful and heeding my compatible hardwork Finally, let me conquer the glamorous colour Of my utmost individuality. Rehabilating the small hopes intro pristine reality Aware of the hunger turning to lime light To strike a chord for my year before. Take me on your hands, float me through legitimate mistakes, rip me apart in the wave of unquenchable thirst and finally wrap me out as a champion badge of jaded grade twelve. Finally, Bless me God, provide eternal marvels Bless me God, honour the righteous path As the testimony of your judicious grace Bless me God, I'm starting life (grade twelve)
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These are the hard times, the long stretch of coal-shed days, the corrugated nights of the antinomian. I retch at the old doubts and the panoply of dustbins clattering bright, their watchers simian in the morning **** I dress as though dredging up greys, monotone deep in the GB tradition: now sandpit tea with oil stain floats silt dreads the mass of a seven year clay. Four weeks of shadows drown wind in a storm. And dreams of my cottage in days of such calm and late summer happiness as brought cut corn and strawbs and horse manure in hugs until like Zulu tribesmen the birds appeared. Hunched with expectation Spears smiling like baddies they rushed me. I woke pouring sweat like a workhorse the weakest of defences laid up my face pulling cellophane over French windows.
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Feb 6, 2012
Feb 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM UTC
February, from which there is no escape
I've watched too late; the morn is near; One look at God's broad silent sky! Oh, hopes and wishes vainly dear, How in your very strength ye die! Even while your glow is on the cheek, And scarce the high pursuit begun, The heart grows faint, the hand grows weak, The task of life is left undone. See where upon the horizon's brim, Lies the still cloud in gloomy bars; The waning moon, all pale and dim, Goes up amid the eternal stars. Late, in a flood of tender light, She floated through the ethereal blue, A softer sun, that shone all night Upon the gathering beads of dew. And still thou wanest, pallid moon! The encroaching shadow grows apace; Heaven's everlasting watchers soon Shall see thee blotted from thy place. Oh, Night's dethroned and crownless queen! Well may thy sad, expiring ray Be shed on those whose eyes have seen Hope's glorious visions fade away. Shine thou for forms that once were bright, For sages in the mind's eclipse, For those whose words were spells of might, But falter now on stammering lips! In thy decaying beam there lies Full many a grave on hill and plain, Of those who closed their dying eyes In grief that they had lived in vain. Another night, and thou among The spheres of heaven shalt cease to shine, All rayless in the glittering throng Whose lustre late was quenched in thine. Yet soon a new and tender light From out thy darkened orb shall beam, And broaden till it shines all night On glistening dew and glimmering stream.
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The Waning Moon
Sitting in labyrinths of cobblestone intestines I’m learning to eat the entrails of sacrifice only domestic, never hunted. pick up spoon. put down put down. put-down. pick up. um . spoon. um… putdown. there are motions for eating and I do them. soothsayer, look down pay attention to positions, shapes knife. butter. um… bread. no. breadth. better. no. butter-better. focus. knife. better. bread. knife, knife of haruspex. knife breadth. okay… deep breath. I have divided the livers and the watchers of victims. I have written on the anomalies in my bronze living, what I should look for, what they should allow for. my protruding viscera, my ancient autopsy of starving. Starving made me easier to tie. easier to lift. made me feel gutted out like finished ice-cream containers but, starving made me full of household gods. made me divine. made sheeps fly. made days disappear and made cold cold cold seem like simmering. made staying out of sight a piece of cake. cake. starving made me rich when I found little boys betting quarters for eating bowels of goats. made me small enough to fit through playground gates so I could swing swing in earthquakes, and portents. now, I listen to Memor, a man who knows nothing of starving talk about how starving I am. tomorrow I have to advise tomorrow I have to weigh tomorrow I have to swallow tomorrow I have to tomorrow I have tomorrow I am half and starving made me whole.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM UTC
Starving
I will walk with you in dreamland, and verdant trees will brush our brows with hoary leaves, and silvered fish will swim in untouched seas. The sun will warm our hearts and kiss our cheeks as does the doting father. I will walk with you in starlight while the incandescent crescent marks the ground with dappled light, and the night watchers will peer at us through leaves up, up away where they are secreted and safe from sun’s harsh glare. I will walk with you in meadows where the peonies and bluebells prosper, soft and slow, kissing sweetly as their petals brush our skin. And the meadowlark shall sing for us, her song of joy sent forth in notes of gold. I will walk with you forever, down the path untamed and tangled up in brambles, and also down the road so clear and straight and gilded by the sun with bricks of gold. Wherever you shall go, my darling, I will walk with you.
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Jan 23, 2012
Jan 23, 2012 at 1:11 AM UTC
I Will Walk With You
75. 85. 90. windows down. open road. scene stark night, moonlight contrast. stars: the watchers: no passing cars to block the path to oblivion.                                                                                     /fly/ arms spread wide, wind whipping ripsrustlesslipsslidesslices unfurled fingers cutting ribbons in the fabric of the atmosphere. acrid scents of city pollution fuse with mown grass and night dew and waking trees: a cocktail served through the nose over the breeze--                                                          fresh air in a dead man's lungs. here is life lived on high giddy wheeling 85 and 90 not a soul in sight enveloped in the music dazzled by the starlight drunk on speed delighted dizzy to die. this is release
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Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015 at 12:12 PM UTC
speed
the season-change of the vagrant pole-star easily picks up a sip from the list of ducks of the night-watchers standing on the bye-lane of the horse-race … by the weight of the confession made by the spelling-mistakes of a moonlit night to the lotus-leaves … the amputated tongues of the night-bulbs gradually rolls down to the banyan-pods of the side-characters the sharp archer of the star-apple moves away some furlongs from the usual word-stairs and swallowed a whole grammar with fumes by spoon thus with the number of velocity-poems that the punjabi with boutique prints can produce… or will produce … gluttonous flower-vase of the magic-painter can make cool the slaughter-ground … spread to the horizons of the krishnachura that is deviated from its own track
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Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM UTC
the precipitation relating to slaughter-land
She can feel The thought Blooming within her Flowering mind That will never wilt, Dew of life On her Crown of petals Hiding the thorns Within her soul, She'll spill nectar Hungry hummingbirds Static watchers Of this beauty, Releasing sweet Her aroma Upon the breeze, But careful you Lest her truth be She's a Venus flytrap Ready to ensnare you, Handle with care... © okpoet
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Feb 9, 2013
Feb 9, 2013 at 11:51 PM UTC
Blooming...
Lady of dance so eloquent, Flamenco born from her wombs' true intent, Castanets clatter, as tambourine rattles, with excitement, accrued within whirls, she prances and dances within circles, all flashing, to reach her prince charming, was truly so dashing, her hair rolled up in a tight fitting bun, As she swirled up to reach her finale, twas said, she was here no longer, she was truly dead, she deceased many years, hence past, For every so often her vengeance she cast, Prince so vain, found another sweet lover, left her alone with her pain, left her mark on the spot, where her true love stopped, Gave her no attention, well too little to mention, took her life with such a harsh knot, when the moon is bright, on one sorrowful night, She'd appear to dance for the crowds, The watchers looked on, not terrified, by the sight of the tragic flamenco bride! Copywrite, Olivia Kent 24/03/2013.
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Aug 25, 2013
Aug 25, 2013 at 12:10 PM UTC
The Flamenco Bride!
My memory is filled with icy thoughts so chilled I begin to stammer, loss of breath, like a ghost That follows me, my teeth chatter,  so many Of my warning words that no one ever heard, Locked away in fear, the watchers always near, Thoughts flooding with grief, the darkness fraught, Ever filled with thieves so fast they seem to disappear. It would seem I am beyond what some deem a good guy in the end, Every time my breath catches, I seem to feel on the mend. Then it begins again, a waking crash like flashing light, Well I never get much rest, before it's over, twilight pests. They follow me at dusk, this rain, and hail it must, Until I am lost in thought, I awaken to this unspoken fact, That if I had not been poor, friends would be at my door. Blind with broken dreams, this is quite a scene, It seems that money spoke, it made my life a joke. Still I ask why oh why oh why? And I get the same answer, It'll come to you some day, boy, you're getting old, tisk tisk, This world is cold and full of holes, your worries are absurd, Not a word, NOT another WORD, your logic is absurd...
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Feb 16, 2015
Feb 16, 2015 at 3:46 AM UTC
Wicked Witches
The bench Supporting cast Men of few talents The star watchers Few know their names "No skill", they say Trading tokens in the money game Roster holders for the next star Only put in to give others rest Pass the ball, set the pick, take a flop Help the star look good, give him a chance Never to take the ball and make the shot Unknown, Unsung, Underrated Until the big play The highlight reel The game winner ESPN's fifteen minutes of fame Talk of the town The hero Until the next game Then it's the back to normal Sitting on the bench
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Jun 10, 2010
Jun 10, 2010 at 4:24 PM UTC
Bench Warmers
A poet is not perfect although some claim to be Scribblers of thought watchers of humanity Pen every emotion fill it with devotion Ride waves of passion chaotic like the ocean A poet is not perfect with more than eyes we see What's hidden what lies between prophecy Future unfolding the past we keep holding Now keeps rolling do you remember where you're going? A poet is not perfect hmm what does this mean? From life experience write a scene Words forever blending combinations never ending Translation of thought keeps message sending A poet is not perfect neither is humanity Speakers of truth live on edge of sanity Recognize what's broken book wide open Read between lines multiply the hoping A poet is not perfect many strive to be Most fall victim to vanity Born reactive to the attractive Divided emotion feeling subtracted A poet is not perfect or what you might think One universal mind flowing in sync Alarm goes off wake from sleep Piece together broken with perfect poetry we speak...
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Mar 2, 2016
Mar 2, 2016 at 6:24 PM UTC
A Poet Is Not Perfect...
Oh by all means Please do go on! When I asked how things are going, This is how I hoped you respond! I wanted to know your recipe for chicken tenders. No **** Coconut flour, huh? Well I’ll. Be. ****** I wanted to know that you’re just trying to get through the doldrums of Day 11 & 12. I’m just trying to get through this conversation! We have something in common! What I wanted to talk about? What I wanted to talk about was Weight Watchers. I only have 13 more points left this week! Have I told you my recipe for air “fried” cauliflower crunch bites?
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Apr 14, 2018
Apr 14, 2018 at 12:49 PM UTC
Whole30
Cold winds killing the breath of life; Lands saturated with the bones of the dead. Pondering the meaning of so much destruction; Touching the spirits of mindful watchers Gazing at the signs. Thieves waiting for the house to empty. Words buried beneath poignant sensations Hidden from the living; Wishing to resurrect sentiments to share With the deceased. Death promised the caterpillar its wings. Sleep stolen in the midst of regrets; Situations ferried by the unexplained Within the fog of nightmares. Remembering her spirit Leaving without saying “goodbye”.
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Oct 31, 2013
Oct 31, 2013 at 9:12 PM UTC
Hades
I would like to think of myself as an intellectual, but really I’m just a regurgitation of the adolescent caste system with academic anxiety and a learned fear. Well, I suppose that is a bit harsh. I used to be social ***** now I am a lowly intrapersonal custodian (let us never mind my inter-personal mess-managing, please?), though I am far from clean. __________ I have found myself flitting back to this page from time to time and mentally inserting here a terse, self-degrading statement that could re-catalyze my pitiful little verse, but never actually writing it. I hold it heavy in my head where it shall remain, apparently. Apparently I don’t feel the need to read my flaws, transgressions, and fallibilities back to me. Perhaps I haven’t yet articulated them, and they’re just skulking around—hunched apparitions haunting my subconscious. (Death smells like dog treats: perplexing, but you want to touch your tongue to it so long as no one will know). I must slay them all, eventually, or else perish. But! It is not the transgression itself that I fear—my behaviors are observable, even tangible, I can stare at them for hours. It is the dark implication of the transgression—the churning matter only detectable for its outline of illumination—that gives me trepidation. How will I move-on? How will I grow-here? Like an impossible little spur that nestles between resistant skin and unknowing fabric? Can I penetrate the protection? My security is maniacal; it is evidence of crazed disillusion. I am the raven clawing through infinite veneers; I am tangled… Out ****** spot! Out, I say! I must regress to becoming the white blanket. I must know nothing but God. A simple cloth. A towelette. Rags! Rags! Rags! … …. …God? …Hello? …Is it too late to become …plain?
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 10:40 AM UTC
"The Fall of the Watchers"
I would like to think of myself as an intellectual, but really I’m just a regurgitation of the adolescent caste system with academic anxiety and a learned fear. Well, I suppose that is a bit harsh. I used to be social ***** now I am a lowly intrapersonal custodian (let us never mind my inter-personal mess-managing, please?), though I am far from clean. __________ I have found myself flitting back to this page from time to time and mentally inserting here a terse, self-degrading statement that could re-catalyze my pitiful little verse, but never actually writing it. I hold it heavy in my head where it shall remain, apparently. Apparently I don’t feel the need to read my flaws, transgressions, and fallibilities back to me. Perhaps I haven’t yet articulated them, and they’re just skulking around—hunched apparitions haunting my subconscious. (Death smells like dog treats: perplexing, but you want to touch your tongue to it so long as no one will know). I must slay them all, eventually, or else perish. But! It is not the transgression itself that I fear—my behaviors are observable, even tangible, I can stare at them for hours. It is the dark implication of the transgression—the churning matter only detectable for its outline of illumination—that gives me trepidation. How will I move-on? How will I grow-here? Like an impossible little spur that nestles between resistant skin and unknowing fabric? Can I penetrate the protection? My security is maniacal; it is evidence of crazed disillusion. I am the raven clawing through infinite veneers; I am tangled… Out ****** spot! Out, I say! I must regress to becoming the white blanket. I must know nothing but God. A simple cloth. A towelette. Rags! Rags! Rags! … …. …God? …Hello? …Is it too late to become …plain?
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*The cordons of existence are constricting For the keepers of the dream have let us down, Who will buy tomorrow if performances are hollow Causing all the global spectators to frown? American has been the silk pyjamas Since ’45 they’ve lead the world’s display In health and wealth and brandishing the muscle But in recent times it seems they’ve seen their day. For since Clinton’s time the National debt has spiralled They’ve departed brushfire wars in disarray, Default now looms obscene with disharmony supreme With Congressional leaders ranting in the fray. The fiasco of a Government held to ransom By a faction of extremist’s from the right, Whilst the greenback in decline won’t change water into wine The dire threat of fiscal chaos causes fright. So global confidence is fading in the dollar And the watchers shake their heads in blank despair, For the willingness to follow is now a bitter pill to swallow When the USA’s rock steadiness aint’ there. So, what’s around the corner for tomorrow? What aspirants are waiting in the wings? With a fading USA perhaps it’s China’s turn to play Though that’s going to mean adjustments made to things. Of course we’re venturing into territory’s unchartered And the crystal ball consulted, isn’t clear But one thing I can assure, if this is what we must endure, Is that our tomorrows will be something, now, to fear.* Marshalg Auckland N.Z. 19 October 2013
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 8:01 PM UTC
Pygmalion
LOUD trumpets blow among the naked pines, Fine spun as sere-cloth rent from royal dead. Seen ghostly thro' high-lifted vagrant drifts, Shrill blaring, but no longer loud to moons Like a brown maid of Egypt stands the Earth, Her empty valley palms stretched to the Sun For largesse of his gold. Her mountain tops Still beacon winter with white flame of snow, Fading along his track; her rivers shake Wild manes, and paw their banks as though to flee Their riven fetters. Lawless is the time, Full of loud kingless voices that way gone: The Polar Caesar striding to the north, Nor yet the sapphire-gated south unfolds For Spring's sweet progress; the winds, unkinged, Reach gusty hands of riot round the brows Of lordly mountains waiting for a lord, And pluck the ragged beards of lonely pines- Watchers on heights for that sweet, hidden king, Bud-crowned and dreaming yet on other shores- And mock their patient waiting. But by night The round Moon falters up a softer sky, Drawn by silver cords of gentler stars Than darted chill flames on the wintry earth. Within his azure battlements the Sun Regilds his face with joyance, for he sees, From those high towers, Spring, earth's fairest lord, Soft-cradled on the wings of rising swans, With violet eyes slow budding into smiles, And small, bright hands with blossom largesse full, Crowned with an orchard coronal of white, And with a sceptre of a ruddy reed Burnt at its top to amethystine bloom. Come, Lord, thy kingdom stretches barren hands! Come, King, and chain thy rebels to thy throne With tendrils of vine and jewelled links Of ruddy buds pulsating into flower!
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An Interregnum
LOUD trumpets blow among the naked pines, Fine spun as sere-cloth rent from royal dead. Seen ghostly thro' high-lifted vagrant drifts, Shrill blaring, but no longer loud to moons Like a brown maid of Egypt stands the Earth, Her empty valley palms stretched to the Sun For largesse of his gold. Her mountain tops Still beacon winter with white flame of snow, Fading along his track; her rivers shake Wild manes, and paw their banks as though to flee Their riven fetters. Lawless is the time, Full of loud kingless voices that way gone: The Polar Caesar striding to the north, Nor yet the sapphire-gated south unfolds For Spring's sweet progress; the winds, unkinged, Reach gusty hands of riot round the brows Of lordly mountains waiting for a lord, And pluck the ragged beards of lonely pines- Watchers on heights for that sweet, hidden king, Bud-crowned and dreaming yet on other shores- And mock their patient waiting. But by night The round Moon falters up a softer sky, Drawn by silver cords of gentler stars Than darted chill flames on the wintry earth. Within his azure battlements the Sun Regilds his face with joyance, for he sees, From those high towers, Spring, earth's fairest lord, Soft-cradled on the wings of rising swans, With violet eyes slow budding into smiles, And small, bright hands with blossom largesse full, Crowned with an orchard coronal of white, And with a sceptre of a ruddy reed Burnt at its top to amethystine bloom. Come, Lord, thy kingdom stretches barren hands! Come, King, and chain thy rebels to thy throne With tendrils of vine and jewelled links Of ruddy buds pulsating into flower!
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Out there in every tree Each and every leaf a face Watching, waiting Judging my every thought And there, deeper out back Watchers clad in camouflage I gear up knife in hand I approach them where they stand With my snow dog companions As brave as I am they disappear Not even a footprint in the snow There under the door A shadow passes Yet I am here alone I search the back room closets Under each bed Checking the locks on each window Where in the hell did that shadow go What do they want with me I attempt to lay down to sleep But the shadows of unrest Swerve and swirl around me Images appear in the darkened mirror Upon the dresser without blinking I stare waiting for my ****** To slowly close the veil Between the worlds
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 10:43 AM UTC
PTSD
Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace you climb, skittish kite ... What do you know of the world’s despair, gliding in vast solitariness there so that all that remains is to                                               fall? Only a little longer the wind invests its sighs; you stall spread-eagled as the canvas snaps and ***** its white rebellious wings, and all the houses watch with baffled eyes. Originally published by Poetry Porch. Keywords/Tags: Icarus, flight, flying, hang-gliding, kite, glider, wind, canvas, South, southern, truck, unspooled Note: The following poem unites Icarus with Tom O'Bedlam in a final, magical quest ... Finally to Burn (the Fall and Resurrection of Icarus) by Michael R. Burch I. Athena takes me sometimes by the hand and we go levitating through strange Dreamlands where Apollo sleeps in his dark forgetting and Passion seems like a wise bloodletting and all I remember —upon awaking— is: to Love sometimes is like forsaking one’s Being—to glide heroically beyond thought, forsaking the here for the There and the Not. II. O, finally to Burn, gravity beyond escaping! To plummet is Bliss when the blisters breaking rain down red scabs on the earth’s mudpuddle... Feathers and wax and the watchers huddle... Flocculent sheep, O, and innocent lambs! I will rock me to sleep on the waves’ iambs. III. To Sleep, that is Bliss in Love’s recursive Dream, for the Night has Wings pallid as moonbeams— they will flit me to Life, like a huge-eyed Phoenix fluttering off to quarry the Sphinx. IV. Riddlemethis, riddlemethat, Rynosseross, throw out the Welcome Mat. Quixotic, I seek Love amid the tarnished rusted-out steel when to live is varnish. To Dream—that’s the thing! Aye, that Genie I’ll rub, soak by the candle, aflame in the tub. V. Riddlemethis, riddlemethat, Rynosseross, throw out the Welcome Mat. Somewhither, somewhither aglitter and strange, we must moult off all knowledge or perish caged. VI. I am reconciled to Life somewhere beyond thought— I’ll Live in the There, I’ll Dream of the Naught. Methinks it no journey; to tarry’s a waste, so fatten the oxen; make a nice baste. I’m coming, Fool Tom, we have Somewhere to Go, though we injure noone, ourselves wildaglow.
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Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020 at 3:57 AM UTC
Southern Icarus
Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace you climb, skittish kite ... What do you know of the world’s despair, gliding in vast solitariness there so that all that remains is to                                               fall? Only a little longer the wind invests its sighs; you stall spread-eagled as the canvas snaps and ***** its white rebellious wings, and all the houses watch with baffled eyes. Originally published by Poetry Porch. Keywords/Tags: Icarus, flight, flying, hang-gliding, kite, glider, wind, canvas, South, southern, truck, unspooled Note: The following poem unites Icarus with Tom O'Bedlam in a final, magical quest ... Finally to Burn (the Fall and Resurrection of Icarus) by Michael R. Burch I. Athena takes me sometimes by the hand and we go levitating through strange Dreamlands where Apollo sleeps in his dark forgetting and Passion seems like a wise bloodletting and all I remember —upon awaking— is: to Love sometimes is like forsaking one’s Being—to glide heroically beyond thought, forsaking the here for the There and the Not. II. O, finally to Burn, gravity beyond escaping! To plummet is Bliss when the blisters breaking rain down red scabs on the earth’s mudpuddle... Feathers and wax and the watchers huddle... Flocculent sheep, O, and innocent lambs! I will rock me to sleep on the waves’ iambs. III. To Sleep, that is Bliss in Love’s recursive Dream, for the Night has Wings pallid as moonbeams— they will flit me to Life, like a huge-eyed Phoenix fluttering off to quarry the Sphinx. IV. Riddlemethis, riddlemethat, Rynosseross, throw out the Welcome Mat. Quixotic, I seek Love amid the tarnished rusted-out steel when to live is varnish. To Dream—that’s the thing! Aye, that Genie I’ll rub, soak by the candle, aflame in the tub. V. Riddlemethis, riddlemethat, Rynosseross, throw out the Welcome Mat. Somewhither, somewhither aglitter and strange, we must moult off all knowledge or perish caged. VI. I am reconciled to Life somewhere beyond thought— I’ll Live in the There, I’ll Dream of the Naught. Methinks it no journey; to tarry’s a waste, so fatten the oxen; make a nice baste. I’m coming, Fool Tom, we have Somewhere to Go, though we injure noone, ourselves wildaglow.
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When it seems as though The human coil is unravelling And we have peaked Our REM of creativity And we seem awash In half-baked positive negativity And the whole world seems To be drowning in self-induced sleep While even the watchers Seem to have both eyes closed... Turn this thing around And open bloodshot eyes. Stop your own unravelling And delve deeper into creativity. Strengthen the bonds Of your own exclusive and non-exclusive spheres. Allow your peaceful world to dawn Even though the outside world drowns In its own exclusive and non-exclusive pool of fears.
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Jan 24, 2017
Jan 24, 2017 at 1:57 PM UTC
Human Coil Unravelling
Designs and Equations Was it the ****** Void filling or Pandora's box opening? Was it Victoria's secret or was it the intellect of victors? Was it the prowess of Hector/Hercules was it? Was it the influence of Arthur or Har-Thor was it? What shapes this world? Ancient Egypt, Pyramids and the Sphinx? Stonhenge and oblelisks? Mystery Schools and occultism scrolls? Crystal technology shifting poles? Perhaps the hips and curves of a voluptuous African Queen Perhaps the fall of Atlantis or the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle Perhaps the enthralling dynamics of the Photon Belt Perhaps the mystery of Shamballa or maybe underground bases where vortex points are Perhaps the missing Eyepods Maybe ancient and present advanced civilizations Maybe it was the fall of Mars or the destruction of Maldek Maybe the hope of Terra par DOMA Or a design from distant super universes or the amphibian watchers of myths Maybe you, maybe me, maybe we The I I I I I's of this world however our eyes blind for we ruin this world If we looked long enough at the light would we burn out? If we truly listened could we hear the music of the verses unison - universes created by the Divine Creator? would we join it/him/ness? Would we hear then Sophia being played as a harp and worlds conceived Would we see a billion pictures as the cosmos are breathed? and Karma come to be... Would we learn of all life forms? Would we learn that there is more structural design than form? Would we learn that there are other mediums of activity apart from life? Would we learn that structure is part of a larger paradigm of concentrated design? Would we learn that universes are gardens and that there are worlds beyond the multiverse based on a hill and mountain orientation not dependant on planes? Who shapes the world? Our Souls from the ocean of love reincarnating? The keepers of sacred knowledge at the temples of Golden Wisdom? Walk-ins and starseeds? Cryptids and hybrids? Wars or the Sun? The Peoples of the Moon or the base in Venus? The underground bases of Mars or The Order of The Phoenix? Maybe royal and mob families? Maybe government with all its true lies Maybe the networks sustained by the simple minds of you and I Whoever or whatever is responsible, either through sonic beams and energy manipulation, it is not so much the power of the Empire but rather the power we surrender.
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 9:11 PM UTC
Where is the Creation Station?
Designs and Equations Was it the ****** Void filling or Pandora's box opening? Was it Victoria's secret or was it the intellect of victors? Was it the prowess of Hector/Hercules was it? Was it the influence of Arthur or Har-Thor was it? What shapes this world? Ancient Egypt, Pyramids and the Sphinx? Stonhenge and oblelisks? Mystery Schools and occultism scrolls? Crystal technology shifting poles? Perhaps the hips and curves of a voluptuous African Queen Perhaps the fall of Atlantis or the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle Perhaps the enthralling dynamics of the Photon Belt Perhaps the mystery of Shamballa or maybe underground bases where vortex points are Perhaps the missing Eyepods Maybe ancient and present advanced civilizations Maybe it was the fall of Mars or the destruction of Maldek Maybe the hope of Terra par DOMA Or a design from distant super universes or the amphibian watchers of myths Maybe you, maybe me, maybe we The I I I I I's of this world however our eyes blind for we ruin this world If we looked long enough at the light would we burn out? If we truly listened could we hear the music of the verses unison - universes created by the Divine Creator? would we join it/him/ness? Would we hear then Sophia being played as a harp and worlds conceived Would we see a billion pictures as the cosmos are breathed? and Karma come to be... Would we learn of all life forms? Would we learn that there is more structural design than form? Would we learn that there are other mediums of activity apart from life? Would we learn that structure is part of a larger paradigm of concentrated design? Would we learn that universes are gardens and that there are worlds beyond the multiverse based on a hill and mountain orientation not dependant on planes? Who shapes the world? Our Souls from the ocean of love reincarnating? The keepers of sacred knowledge at the temples of Golden Wisdom? Walk-ins and starseeds? Cryptids and hybrids? Wars or the Sun? The Peoples of the Moon or the base in Venus? The underground bases of Mars or The Order of The Phoenix? Maybe royal and mob families? Maybe government with all its true lies Maybe the networks sustained by the simple minds of you and I Whoever or whatever is responsible, either through sonic beams and energy manipulation, it is not so much the power of the Empire but rather the power we surrender.
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