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Poetry

Latest Archive
  
  • Poems I
  • Poems II
  • Poems III
  • Poems IV
  • Poems V
Poems IV

 boplines #2

 

 costumed in flagrante

 

         maneuvered delicately, armed and red faced

         with luck, less monstrous than live-evil

         brewed ha-ha strang(e)(led) day’s plan

         evincing more than do(g) go(o)d-evoking

 

festooned in regalia 

 

         cantilevered in motion, frightened and deadpanned

         as(sass)in dazed off-loads, facing more than collapse

         planet in advance of decline - the de-voted,

         disenfranchised miss u.s…allotted crusts of bread

 

redressed indignantly

 

         felled consciousness razed, fill esteem(ed) core ghost riders

         specious, sophistic-(n)-ation, death(‘s) in vocation(= snug-guns)

         (m)angled views (whose) radar is askance, hidden mews

         notes, pale in drones – tap sharp, level  (under)tones (pat dry)

 

former life’s work

 

         disaffected incarnate, re: min(e)d scrap(p)(l)ed re-va (r)nished

         light d(el)oused sub-texted/dued /strata/ merged-mind-body

         junk-sank-shunned-boxed, of: nature; by: law; at: one’s digression

         incept w/o, in withered acceptance finally honed in memory…

 

 

surfaced post mayhem

 

         surety doubtful - a tight-fisted ourvre, surfeit of maidens/madness

         re:cant_or sing on to logical tenets, any_one(’s) gues(s)(t) may be god

         ensnared sans guile, flecked with slivered diamond’s char, back draped

         sanguine-less coup, led from within – daze into  windowpane’s ac(r)id divertimento  

 

fool(‘s) circle

 

         torn etiquette tightly w)rapped knocked twice, knuckled utterance

         under trance it’s systems down, end out-wired shut

         forsooth sate(d) voyeur miss tick-tock, time insensitive-seconds from deep rapture

         partitions multiply, to rend fringed patchwork – vanquished; taken out; flatte(n)(r)ed       

 

addendum repl(a)y sits centered

spectrums narrow, color p(u)r(o)posed

it feels things, (like) damnation defi(n)es gratuity

sibilant whispers swirl gracefully toward silence

(f)ire swells, expands consequence/de-cadence(ed), step(child) like motion

well-nigh assured fated twists, unfold insecure worr(y)(ied) lines…

       

           

 

Poems IV

 (f)ear marks

 

acrid lyrics work deep grooved impressions

of late, the dead are discounted as traitors

early on, the living made the rules

 

 3-4 colors primarily set a pall, upon which torrents rend horizons to splinters

tempered with rainwater gathered in inkwells

edits outnumber axioms

 

mercifully, we proceed in life unaware of our modularity

replaced by oneself, innocently enthusiastic  & hopeful

the foregone conclusion feigns mystery, to dissimulate the fix

 

mutinous notions, pre-regulated as hangdog depravity

swirl in dervish-like ambiguity, permitting only tacet isms

the crime of mentation carries with it the punishment of consciousness

 

nascent armistice, archaic in concept, weak willed in nature

cobbles together disparate, ideologically crazed soul-splitters

latticed jet(s) stream(ed) cross thatched, fractal patterned clusters

 

surprisingly vacant, not withstanding a ¼ century education

urbane, erudite, egg-cartoned,  web-windowed, frozen – pacified

àgod closes around the clubhouse turn…

 

little remains to (in)fantasize – algorithms sculpt feelings ÷ expectations

the last page of every story awaits our morbid curiosity

seek, & you will find your horror…

 

contrived reasons to be present, themselves of dubious motive, (m)ask imminent surrender

a surfeit of true ardor, once soul-tattooed – replaced by a yen for,

a cold glass of water…

 

  sighting love:

                                                 absolution+a supreme 'be in'…

 

 

                             with no ending insight,

 

                                                                    words play on...

Poems IV

 for after

 

after a mirthless giggle

 

                          comes a wide scream

 

 after purposeless protests

                    

                           replete with tell all vanities

 

after seamless shakedowns

 

                           timely measured responses withstand

 

after moon phased outings

 

                           dreamless castings about, though not now

 

for(e) ever I asked

 

                          after waiting longer than required

 

fortune(’s ) telling smile(s)

 

                           pre-date(s) organized religious crime

 

in advance of birth

 

                            the sequence of events unfolds unpredictably

 

after schooling, serpentine illogic

 

                          floods the causeways with remorse

 

between outings planned yesterday

 

                          insincere wishes conflict with untruths

 

in good stead, conformist revolutionaries

 

                           seize ransomed moments of clarity

 

without asking I think of more than this

 

with no reply comes my answer