Posts Tagged ‘beauty’

Golgotha

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Pale and brood­ing Golgotha

Built upon Aphrodite’s with­ered flesh

Her ancient bones seek­ing succor

Scorned, sup­planted in eter­nal rest

Loom­ing shad­ows pla­cate evil

Mes­sianic rum­blings chal­lenged death

Painted bosoms swell with passion

In orgas­mic shud­dered breath

Oh Gol­go­tha no light can pierce thy soul

Yet glo­ried in remembrance

Mak­ing maimed sin­ners whole

Oh Aphrodite in dream­less sleep you rage

Pri­apic Phallics engorged in adoration

Gather dust of a bygone age

Weary wan­der­ers wear­ing heartache

Their song a dam­aged howl

Pal­lid faces fash­ion tears

Hid­den by a sim­ple cowl

Gol­go­tha

No light can pierce thy veil

Death and mys­tery
Weaves the cloak you wear

Gen­tle Aphrodite

Is for­got­ten

Which is more than she can bear

She cries

Beauty fades

She cries

Beauty

Broken Crayons

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Broken crayons

Grasped by

Crushed fin­gers

Vainly

try

To stay inside the lines



Siz­zling tears

Burn

The inno­cent

Scorch­ing beauty

A flower

That

Shall never ever blos­som



Heart wrench­ing greed

Insa­tiable

Mono­lithic

Com­plete

Unde­ni­able

Total

The slaver­ing jaw of the Wolf



Who will take up sword?

Who will lend voice to this din?

Who will defend beauty?

Inno­cence?

Joy?

The weak?



I hear the trum­pets blaring

A call to arms.

The clank of amour

And the sweat of vis­cous violence

Lay not that upon my brow

I seek peace

Evap­o­ra­tion

Loss

Always loss



Yet

They cry for help

And their tears touch me.



“Your sword my Lord”



I hate what I’ve become…

Will the Night…

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Will… the night…

Hide you?

Or

Reveal you?

For who you are



Will you always hide

In shad­ows?

Alone



A slith­er­ing hematologist

Lay­ing belly to sand?

Wouldst you deny truth?

Are you the apple that rises

When dropped to the floor?

The Tear

That climbs?

The bro­ken toy

Cry­ing for mend­ing?



Nay

You are none of that.

Yet you play your life

Like a trick shot in a cheap par­lor game

A used tis­sue in a coughs for­got­ten dream



You shine…



The night retreats

When you arrive.

Find your Dawn…

Lady…

Sad Girl

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

I see your hid­den tears

Wrapped up in inner confusion.

I see your dreams and fears

Awash

Aban­doned

Amid the cheer of illusion.


Life assaults you

Yet, you fight

So pre­cious you are

Filled with all in which I delight

In you I find the light

That casts away the darkness

You still the pain

I

Always feel.

The joy…

I need.


You are the crys­tal­lized snowflake

The chill of a win­ter dawn.

The sooth­ing caress of sunlight

You heal this soul Oh so torn.


You are the unan­swered phone call

The silence that greets my cries

Oh unre­lent­ing sadness

Yet I try..

And try.

You are all…

all
I need

The Envelope

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

I AM SKIN STRETCHED TAUNT

I AM EVERYTHING AND NOTHING

BLOOD, GUTS, BONESINEW

AM I MORE THAN THE SUM OF MY PARTS?



I AM ENERGY’S SWIRLING DANCE OF ELECTRONS

I AM THE SCIENTIST’S CONFUSION

TO UNDERSTAND

THE UNDEFINABLE

WHAT CONTAINS ME?



MY EMOTIONS SEETHE.

A MAELSTROM OF NEVER FORGOTTEN DESPAIR

ROOTED LIKE CORAL

SURROUNDED BY TURQUOISE MEMORY

TRAILING TO AND FRO TOWARDS MYSTERIOUS LOVE

DESIRE’S MISTRESS, COLD HEARTED AND FAIR

ALABASTER

STONE

TASTELESS



I AM KINDLING

MATCHLESS,

CONSPIRING DRY

READY TO ERUPT INTO MAJESTIC DANCING TONGUES OF FLAME



I AM THE BLANK SLATE.

AN ARTISTS HUMBLING YEARNING TO BECOME



I AM DEVOTION TO RITUAL

I PLAY OUT IN ENDLESS SCREAMS OF FRUSTRATED CONSTRUCTS



DEATH WHO DO YOU SEEK?

IF NOT ME



I AM THE VAGABOND

HOMELESS

BEREFT OF KINSHIP

WHAT I EAT OTHERS HAVE NO NEED FOR

NO CHARITY

SIMPLE EXCESS



I AM THE BLADE OF GRASS

THE LENGTH OF MY LIFE

DETERMINED BY THE TILT OF THE EARTH

AND THE PARCHNESS OF THE SOIL



I AM THE MISFIT

NO DESTINY

NO FATE

MERELY A CONFLUENCE OF UNRELATED EVENTS

A MUTATED STRAND OF DNA

REPLICATING

BECOMING

ME



DEATH SMILES AND OPENS IT’S ARMS

HE SMILES PLEASANTLY

OLD FRIEND

WE SHALL MEET SOON

I GOT NOTHING BUT TIME

I DO NOT FEAR THEE, REAPER

AM I DIFFERENT THEN THE FALLEN LEAVES THAT FEEDS THE TREE?

OR THE CARCASS THAT THE LION DEVOURS?

SUCH A SMALL PRICE



I AM ILLUSION. YOU CAN NOT SEE ME

I AM THE CHILD READING HESS, CAMUS, FREUD AND DOSTOEVSKY

SEEKING TRUTH

NEVER FINDING



I AM ODIN’S THUNDERBOLT, HERCULES STRENGTH, THOR’S HAMMER AND DIONYSUS LAMENT

I AM THE CASTRO’S BALLS

ROLLING

TOWARDS CHANGE AND REVOLUTION



I AM THE FORGOTTEN POEMS OF LOVE

I AM BEAUTY NO ONE WILL SEE OR HEAR

LONELIER IS THE WORLD WITHOUT ME



HOPELESS REFRAIN

FEEL WHATFEEL

SUCH HURT

SUCH PAIN



I AM A MISTRESS’S BEAUTY

LUST SO PURE

LEAVING HEART’S BROKEN

TEARS

AND PAIN



I AM THE ONE EYED JANUS

I SEE THE PAST

NO FUTURE

NOTHING

BUT DARKNESS



I SEEK MY SOUL

THERE MUST BE MORE TO THIS

AM I BUT WORM FOOD?

OR A WEAVE IN THE UNIVERSAL CLOTH.



I AM INFINITELY FINITE

I AM LOVE’S LAMENT

I AM GUTS AND BLOOD

COVERED BY SKIN

STRETCHED SO TAUNT.

The last Poet

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Blinded by tears

And mem­ory

I stum­ble

Over

Dead bod­ies



The Sun

Beg­ging forgiveness

Envelopes

Me

And tries

To warm

This cold soul



Bro­ken children

Arms and legs

Spread

At impos­si­ble angles.

Stab at my heart



The scent of lilac

Com­petes

With the decay of flesh

Always scream­ing

In mute agony



The world is not a kind place

It cares little

But for

Sun­rises

Sun­sets

Ticks of an

Unfor­giv­ing clock



Amid the rubble

Of our col­lec­tive sins

I found her

She smiled

And broke the heart

I though I no longer

Had



I would never kneel before any God

But I knelt before her

She was the last Poet

The faint hope

Of a dying race



With an innocence

That broke my heart

She said

You are the scarred man”

You are here to die for me?”



Words

Had long since left me

I shoul­dered my pack

And began the journey

To

The long and dark

Lonely road



She clutched my hand

I fought off

The momen­tary revulsion

I for­got the touch

Of another

Human being

It’s alright”

Are we not friends?”

Her know­ing smile

Belied her youth



We walked

In silence

You know”

You don’t have to die”

I didn’t answer

I was already dead



I scanned the landscape

For

Ene­mies

The howl­ing of wolfs

Sang

With heart rending

Lone­li­ness.

Such a sad song they sing”

I gripped

The unfa­mil­iar touch

Tighter

Child of Apollo

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

I met her.
A woman with a child’s eyes
Filled with won­der and questions.

She danced through the snow
Cold could not touch her.
Her heart burn­ing pas­sion.
Her soul a prism
Where she shaped dreams.

Oth­ers fal­tered.
Her steps were ordained.
A child of Apollo.
She was her own Muse.

She spoke to the world
In a lan­guage
That caused won­der.
Armed only with quill and ink
She changed worlds
Shaped hearts
Made tears obsolete.

Her words were like songs
Indeli­ble
Unfor­get­table.
They vibrated in time to a uni­ver­sal clock
Tick­ing truth and beauty.

Poetry was her art
Her pas­sion
The altar where she shed
Her life’s pain.

All were amazed.

But no one saw the sad girl
Behind the beauty
The words…

She was a child of Apollo.
Her steps were ordained.

My Butterfly

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

I sit in my gar­den why I don’t know
For it is steeped in blan­kets of new fallen snow.
Naked trees clothed in sheets of ice
The land­scape is beauty filled with sun­light and white.

Win­ter doth grips my heart so
The tears and the sad­ness from my soul flow.
But the beauty and promise.
That soon… my sweet but­ter­fly will show…

I am not given to speak­ing words that are sweet
I am blacker than mad­ness from the demons I meet.
The bat­tles that rage alone that I fight,
There is no moon in the dark­ness of my night.
It is beauty and love that I do indeed seek…
Where is my but­ter­fly? So humble…so meek.

Win­ter unclenches its furi­ous grip
It is sweet spring from whose cup I now sip
Fer­vently I wish from the seeds that I sow,
Soon…yes soon my sweet but­ter­fly will show.

I patiently wait alone in my chair
My gar­den has grown at which now I do stare
The flow­ers they bloom, through love and my care
But where is my but­ter­fly? so pretty so fair.

Her gos­samer wings alight on my plants,
My heart races to a beat that enchants.
I am stricken by mad­ness, with a heart that so yearns
My beau­ti­ful But­ter­fly indeed has returned.

You can not touch beauty; it is but a wisp of smoke
Clutch as you may tis but a dream you invoke
It can only be seen and loved from afar
Alas…..if I could… share the words that we spoke.

I watch in sweet bliss as she does her dance
Hop­ping from flower, from flower to plant
I smile and nod as her beauty unfolds
Ahhh the story of love that she told.

The trees cry leaves which tum­ble to the ground
With a wist­ful, wish­ful, whis­per­ing sound.
Autumn has come it can­not be denied
The green of the grass cries as it dies

The sea­sons impose their will upon all.

My eyes which do tear
And a heart that does yearn
That my sweet, sweet, but­ter­fly will some­day return.

I will guard your Dreams

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Sleep free my lady
Let thy trou­bled brow
Sooth in safe dream

Let the pranc­ing cloud hoofs
Of child­ish toys
Bring smile
And joy
And bend your lips
In too unfa­mil­iar ways

Let not men­da­cious lovers
Assault thee
Nor
The love­less toil
Of fruit­less search­ing
Scar your beauty

I know your heart

I shall never allow you to shed false tear
No water shall
Ever stain your visage

Again

My lady I love thee from afar
Can there be truer love?
More Forthright?

With­out need for self per­ceived advan­tage
Like an onion seller in the mar­ket
Lay­ing digit on scale
To improve the weight of purse?

I seek no recompense

Just

Tonight

You sleep free

Tonight

I will guard your dreams.

Guinevere

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Guin­e­vere
Lay beside me
Let us lie upon sil­ver clouds
Hud­dled in Blan­kets of rain­bow
Bathe in essen­tial starlight
Each point of light diaphanous­ness por­tals
To what never was
But might yet come to pass
Where this bit­ter world does not exist
Where tears are never shed
Each new day a mys­tery
An unopened present
A child’s con­tented heart



Guin­e­vere
Do not speak
Words are clumsy use­less con­structs
The mere cack­ling of crows
Let the quick­en­ing of our hearts
And the trem­bling of our flesh
Sing our song



Let angelic choirs sing rhap­sodic coun­ter­point
Let the mae­stros of yore
play celes­tial instru­ments
Shak­ing the heav­ens
In thun­der­ous melody
Where even the dour Gods smile and nod
Know­ingly



Guin­e­vere
I am lost in your eyes
Falling help­lessly to an essen­tial core
The eye of the storm
The cen­ter of all things
I am no longer who I was
Merg­ing, meld­ing, blend­ing
Into some­thing new
Dis­tinct
Pure
What never existed before
Yet older than the ancient bones of Gaia



Guin­e­vere
Your name is the soft caress of a mid­night breeze
A glo­ri­ous spring day
A gen­tle rain that suc­cors parched earth
A balm that heals a bro­ken heart



Guin­e­vere…
Guin­e­vere…
Guin­e­vere…



A sin­gle tear rolls down my cheek
It is my gift to you

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