poetry – Page 66 – Poétique

Orotund

Orotund feelings leading
Up to exasperation
Hungry for a calm moment
Petrified and waiting for
One I think will never come
Probable and unlikely
Striking a deep nerve
Looking for a noble citizen
Someone to take me seriously
Someone who can laugh
At themselves and at
My ridiculous nature
I need to take a breath
My sleep is disenfranchised
Suspended like a pendulum
Swinging back and forth
Over the memories I’m creating
Pretty compelling I’m so
Exhausted I hope I can
Remember who I am tomorrow

Knots

Untie me
Loosen up my knots
All the perplexity
My spiraling contortions
Whorled around a
Broken heart that’s
Been mended and
Braided back together
By the hands of my
Ancestors in my
Dreaming life
Ancient hands that
Will comfort the man
That’s inside
Unsure of what a mother
Looks like in person
I can sense what one
Would be like subconsciously
Weaving my soul with
Threads of compassion
Twirling the kinks out
Unhitching the headaches
A helix connection
Between us entrusted
A rosette nexus of
Unwinding and loosening
My earthling coil
My living soul
When you open your eyes
To expose the window
Where I see you unfold
Looking back at me
Can I ask you to
Find me unbind me
Untangle unwind me
Untie me and disjoin all
My knots allowing
My lungs to expand
And breathe in
All the love from within

Fool

The world is a mess
A little less desire
Maybe nothing to crave
I’m not sure of my
Own tastebuds
Legendary fantasies
Dreams of manic screams
More or less
Searching for a light
That cracks us open
With the mystery
Of countless people
Remarkable times
Memories fade
The truth is a lie
And I am
My own fool

Who Knows

You feel like you’re falling apart
Like everything you have
Maybe means less than you
Thought it would or does or
What does it mean to be
Too much around the edges
Crispy and hard to digest
What a nap could most likely fix
Is also not totally guaranteed
I can smell the faint smoke
Of the neighbors cigarette
Lingering in the air
The thought of moving to a
Different town smelling
Someone else’s smoke
Lingering in the air perhaps
Even Greece appeals to me
In a way that sort of forgives
This avant garde way of living
A sip of redemption and
Perhaps an escape along the
Edge of a cliff not pretending
To be alive or escaping
Reality but just wanting
To be fiercely honest about
Who I am and now gravely
Entangled by some betterment
Of what doing well for or
As well as a person could be
At living life; ejects me into what
Would give up some deeper
Resolution to the meaning
Of life or at the very least
Help release the grasp I
Have so tightly gripped
Onto thinking I was going
About it in some especially
Wonderful way but
Who knows

Together

We’re better not together
I wore out love like
A sweater now the ties
Are severed no more
Binds no more fights
No more arguing
As you slam the door
Behind you it seems the
Only thing you’re good at
Is to fight for nothing
Because when I have
Asked for you to fight
For us the only time
The gloves are off is
When you want to win
For yourself not for us
And so we’re better
Not together and the
Birds they sing much
Sweeter and even the
Sky is so much bluer
Because the fog has
Finally lifted and
The heralding begins
As all the forest creatures
Sing and dance to
Celebrate our final end
Happy anniversary to
Goodbyes let’s celebrate
With our abilities to smile
The end has never been
So delicious to truly
Finish up and put a bow
Onto our personal
Beginnings there’s no
Regrets because we’re
Better off forever now that
Finally we’re truly not
Together

Perfect

Maybe it’s too perfect
The way that you could fit
Is it too perfect
That you could slip right in
Maybe it’s too perfect
Too good to be true
There’s not enough wine
In the world to soothe
Feelings of not being
Loved enough… Maybe
You can do the trick
From the outset you
Appear as though you
Might have a magical
Wand in your pocket
Click your heels sort
Of person- I wonder if
The way that I see you
Is too perfect or
Maybe I’m reading it
Exactly the way that
It is… Are you a wizard
Are you casting a
Love spell I can’t tell…
Is it the way you look
At me- Is it the eye
Contact that’s melting
Me- Is it the fantasy
That I’ve imagined
You so perfectly
Maybe it’s too perfect
The way that you could
Slip in here so naturally

Minds Eye

Your photo seems to match up with an image in my mind,
My heartbeat blasts in the same way volcanos do.
Like a dream I can’t wake up from for to find;
From what I gather birds are flying backwards today-
Still water resilient fish are swimming upside down,
Moving in time with every muscle in my body;
Twitching with rhythm that is strangely cathartic
Though the humming of the earth should bring him joy
Nature makes a way to metaphor
Even our feet can’t tread away from what will be;
Inevitably the wind will take us by the hand
Spinning is the sensation of possessing
Every little thing the planet has to offer.
A pure intent for post arrival is returned
And we are learned only to be what we are limited to be,
For we can only transcend what we know to see.

In the Dark

Could you identify me
If we locked eyes on the street
Would you recognize my
Shadow or see my outline
Backlit across the drapes
Along the wall
I see the candlelight
Flickering beneath the sheets
Open your mouth
Let the light shine out
Sparks between us
Starlight enters through the
Windows and there’s a demon
Up ahead maybe we should
Reconsider getting out of bed
Disappear without a trace
Touch me now
Kiss my face
There’s a devil dancing
In the field below
Just past the edge of the
Rooftop you can see a
Pale moon beaming
Over a trail of tears
Fire and fears footprints
Burned into the years
Before us the past is ours
To let go of much like the
Emotions we’re desisting
Heat between us
Still persisting crawl onto
The roof with me breathe
And feel the mist of destiny
Beneath our naked bodies
Would you recognize me
If you saw me on the street
I’d recognize you in the
Way you speak even if I
Saw your shadow passing
Silently in the dark

Wanted

Disingenuous doubt
From now on out
Nobody’s victim
No strangulation
I’m issuing a reward
For anyone who can
Lead me to my lover
Wanted this hunger
Crave the thirst
Ready to burst
I’m your greatest
Suspect better than
Any drug persistent
To love every part
Of you take the side
Street with hovering
Lamps and shadows
Fragrant mimosa trees
I’ll be waiting to meet
You there open hearted

Love Spilt

Take me to the comfort zone
Grab your smile and
Ditch the phone
Resplendent and puffy
Soft like the clouds
You know how you wake up
One morning and realize
You don’t have to go out or to
Work that day?
Yeah like that
Pushing your face back
Down into the sheets again
Back into my chest and then
Pure pareidolia
Meaningful images in the
Portraits of our minds
Landscapes that imitate clouds
Shape the invention of our romance
Resemblance to what blue sky and
Dynamite enflamed eyes have
Carved by a laser beam into a statue
A stone shaped love spilt heart