Category: poetry

Obscura

Obscura

Denied your hiding place
Like the moon stuck in orbit
Forever circling the chaos
Their only navigation
Through the clouds
Misery, devastation, pain
Ten thousand questions
Piled atop the beautiful mess
Followed too quickly by
A million moments of
manufactured silence
Ear holes plugged with noise
So that yours ring with
Quiet
Once revered as the
Master of all things
Left questioning how
You lost
They say it’s only a storm
The clouds will break
Soon
But what if your light
Is burned out
As the screens of their
Tiny magic boxes
Guide them now
If they don’t need you
Will they ever look up at you
Again?
Eyes filled with wonder
Instead of contempt
They will
They must
They do
Because nothing shines
Brighter
Until they become the light
At last

harmony

Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-shot-of-a-person-playing-piano-while-smoking-a-cigarette-10252601/

it creeps in
seeping softly into
the dark
slowly building
eroding the sharpened
edges of my
armor
sanding down
the callouses
created from
the barbed borders
I’ve made for
myself

it is warm and
sweet
gliding over me
the angst ebbing
with each
carefully composed note

thick and deep
rumbling through
the internal
minefield
disengaging
self-strung traps
rendering each hate-filled
weapon
useless
in its wake

the soft chime
of something ancient
but somehow
new
widening and lengthening
until it is ringing
through my mind
colliding with its
fellow
bass and treble
lovers in between the
lines
made wholesome
by the purity
of their goal

it scrubs me free
of rumination
oiling my mind for
wonder and mirth
taking its time
with me
as any good master
should

I am fluid and arch
inside its stanzas
beautiful in a way
I may never feel
elsewhere
and when the lyrics
begin
I unfold completely

ready and waiting

Fragile

broken glass by kirahoffmann
broken glass by kirahoffman
you can't know
there's no stamp
for people
hiding in plain sight
we'll fool you
looking as benign
as a plain window
but 
just barely
hanging on
making the wrong
choice
every time
cracking apart
with
each misstep
bargaining for
anything
that might hold us
together
but every thought
is a speeding
bullet
you can't know
until
you know

axoim

Martina Janochová

defined
but perhaps
indefinable
presupposition
all these threads
do not limit me
I am limitless
devouring life with
each change in
trajectory
weaving my world
around us
some ugly
tangled
mass
but to me
it is infinite
freedom
for today I focus
on heart
spirit
instinct
but soon
when morning dew
casts prismatic
bliss
upon us
sunrise will welcome
my contributions
and
break me free
to spin
again
something solid
stable and salable
for you
to trade
today
I am incalculable
a hundred plans
millions of words
one hope
someday
I will be
the seller
one day
I’ll find the
single shining strand
and follow it to
my
private
pot of gold


forgotten

Artist unknown… Forgotten?

existence is perspective
the sanded edges of memory
cause history to evolve
we aren’t who we are
nor are we who
we will be
it is foolish to believe
a memory is forever
that love is everlasting
or that you are important
the phases of lives
bumping into one another
like so many
soap bubbles
floating on the wind
please don’t let mine
pop
for here, inside this breath
perhaps i won’t be
forgotten
misremembered
sand beneath the
boot of time
i make myself real
in every brush stroke
each wiped tear
a hundred loaves
ten thousand cookies
millions of stitches
all the back rubs
and neck kisses
yes
this is my memory
and perhaps
where my name is lost
are just blank pages
i was never meant
to be
or maybe
they just await my story
not yet
told

thirsty

glitter veins by ThisGirlCanHateYou via DeviantArt.com
glitter veins by ThisGirlCanHateYou via DeviantArt.com

greater than the sum
of us, here
something brilliant pulses
a guiding light
a beacon, drawing us together
our home may change
but it was never a place
it is us
in our veins, in our morrow
love is forever
it glitters inside me
as new and magical as
the day you kissed me
and set loose a million
butterflies
in my soul
do you feel it, too?
as life cracks it’s whip
drives us harder, farther, faster
we drink up these
tiny moments
where it is just us
coiled and locked together
as we were made to be
until you are part of me
and I am part of you
thirsty only for
another day
another month
another year
of you
give me another sip
one more, pretty please
I’ll give you forever
for just
one
more

 

 

~~ Happy Birthday, Daddy! ~~

Ordinary Darkness

Everything by psycheanamnesis via DeviantArt.com
There’s a Crack in Everything by psycheanamnesis via DeviantArt.com

the light catches
where the truth hides
fractures in the cold
oppressive world
that let magic seep out
in tiny droplets
missed by so many
but those in the shadows see
for you can find so much
in the dark
without the distraction of
melody and mock joy that
cascades around those
who pitch their eyes to
stare at the sun
instead
find the broken bulbs
glints of pleasure from seeing
beauty
where it has been forgotten
isn’t a rainbow that much more beautiful
because of the storm
it is forced from?
the stars that much more
breathtaking
for the vast darkness they
somehow penetrate?
I think I’m there
somewhere
in the sparks and colors
I may disguise myself
in these layers
of ordinary and plain
but, no
know me
I am brilliance inside this
dreary grey facade
and if you crack the clay
even for an instant
peer through the
darkness
you might see the secrets
the magic inside
see what others
don’t even look for
it may mean nothing
in that moment
but when you find
light
it is yours to hold
to make your own magic
forever

Modify

Rainbow in the dark by Mel Douleur

Every thought strangled

Each hope shattered

Wishes cast into a sky

Too bitterly black

To return them

Where is my chanced

Tomorrow

My dream blurred by

The smudges of

Yesterday’s obligations

I know this is not

Forever

Now is just a piece of sand

In the glass of life

But allow me

My moment

Of disappoint

Because

I long for the winds

Of change

To toss the clutter

Aside

To

Modify this life

And give me

Something new

To dream

I will find the rainbow

Which is precisely

Why I need

To focus

On my

Dark

Sky

Selective Focus

Deadly Siren Black & White by temariataje via DeviantArt.com
Deadly Siren Black & White by temariataje via DeviantArt.com

the big picture isn’t
always as important
as it seems
perception can be
narrowed
objection negotiated
because what’s in front
is what’s important
be present in the
present
hold the face of
destiny
and tell him
he is everything
feel the ferocity
of his response
because every man
needs to feel
that
we are the roles we play
he is my Captain
I am his mermaid
an ocean of truth
can’t change
my focus
because the future
is just us
alone in our ship
and even if
he is wrapped around
my finger
I am wrapped
around
his bow

Return

A Life in a Boat by onixa via DeviantArt.com

Not a boat, but a ship

Regal in your extravagance

Yet promising humble

Adventures

With each vowed sunrise

Glide through my waters

Where nothing

But pleasure

Hides beneath

Tame the storm that threatens

In the distance

And find a home

Within our eternal

Voyage

Render me soft as bathwater

As smooth as glass

When you plunge your way

To my depths

Take me

Dominate my seas

Float in bliss

Off my shores

Grant me only one thing

In exchange for my

Surrender

Return

To take me

Over

And

Over

As long as the sky remains

Above us

And your heart

Bound

To mine