“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Positively pessimistic
Is it easier to accept all good things
must reach their end
than the bad times
that meet this same demise
because we repel
what its worth,
reject positives,
deflect compliments,
to maintain our polarity
or sense of balance
diametrically positioned
in the middle of the mundane
generally relative
to the negative subjective
circles we spin,
where we begin
pessimism is always possible.
Photo By OSU Special Collections & Archives : 1949 (first day of school),[No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons.
Two-hundred proof
In distilled-the man
she loved drank their life away
this was Truth-in part.
Image by Hill & Adamson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Saturday, June 25, 2016
It is Uni-verse-all
It is not enough
we
must make more
it
feels slipping through
air-we
grasp at wildly
but
remain empty handed.
It
is up to us
who
know
how
it all goes away
shown
in the sky
by
the expansion of our
space-
the
distance between us grows
evermore.
It
is easy to ignore
something
missing
never
noticed before
gone.
It
is more than
we
can handle;
so
small
we
were never meant to see,
so
vast
we
could not ever fathom
its depths
entirely.
It
is when we fall
our
eyes catch
the
brilliant flame
and
make a wish
for
more.
Photo credit: By NASA; uploaded by User:Dipankan001. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Photo details:
English: Resembling
looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant
elliptical galaxy Centaurus A.
Hubble's panchromatic
vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals
the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters and a glimpse into regions
normally obscured by the dust.
The warped shape of
Centaurus A's disk of gas and dust is evidence for a past collision and merger
with another galaxy. The resulting shockwaves cause hydrogen gas clouds to
compress, triggering a firestorm of new star formation. These are visible in
the red patches in this Hubble close-up.
At a distance of just
over 11 million light-years, Centaurus A contains the closest active galactic
nucleus to Earth. The center is home for a supermassive black hole that ejects
jets of high-speed gas into space, but neither the supermassive black hole nor
the jets are visible in this image.
This
image was taken in July 2010 with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
Escher the MC
From up here
you can tell where you are
by referencing a point
from the angles and eaves,
the director boomed in-
action, following my line
Alice watches her head
so she misses the low
hang-over and re-echoes
shown here as shadows
shaking in the corners.
It's all the same, anywhere
you begin, there is no easy out.
Canvas the scene, he challenges
placement and position for Pandora
in an artists annex, up in the Atticus
where the finches have nested,
the view is the same slanted
song with its linear lyrics,
stacked and overlapping
shingles, evermans jingles
trading timberline
for roofscapes
envisioned as eternity.
It's all the same anyway
you look at it.
Photo by Danilo Škofič, taken 2/10/1961 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Friday, June 24, 2016
(The) Professor New
she said, and it was
pure poetry precisely
made New
made New
by the way she looked
at exactly what she expected
to see, in awe
of (extra) ordinary beauty
and its blinding
ability to blend
Me to You
Grasping at Ghosts
“Imagination like electricity,”
he responded,
shocked at his own
physic-all-poetic-kinetic-energy.
Image of painting by Theo van Doesburg [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Image of painting by Theo van Doesburg [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Minute drops
The first train blares its horn
ripping thru the quiet town
at five:eighteen
in lieu of the alarm clock
that ran slow-
it goes to show...
Kicking up dust and sand,
it may take some time
for the eyes to adjust
to light rays
lasering the pupil
shrinks as day
cracks the ceiling
wide open.
It smells distinctly like rain
that none saw coming
since there were no puddles
to prove it.
Tho the tracks
were both still
warm to the touch,
and the mist counts
as precipitation.
It adds up over time,
and passes the miles.
Blurring the light infinitesimal
strewn across space
in broad strokes.
Time keeps losing its place
on the train of thought,
while the whistle blows
such primitive perceptions
as these right
outside the window.
Crystal beads streak
backwards behind the ears
as memories
dew
condense and transport us
while wide awake
but a little late.
Painting by J. M. W. Turner, pre 1844 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Geocentric gluttony
The body is a satellite,
it probes the air around
taking in
bits and streams, intervals
in waves two miles per second
perpetually.
Its sensors are set
on hyper-sensitive,
it blinks and thinks
oft from aloft,
flashing reflections
for frozen photos
at shuddering speeds.
Collecting all inertial information,
which is then converted
upside-down
into mirror images larger
than they may seem.
Orbitally over and over obituary,
that last time around-
when all the light hits just right
for focusing fractally...
-Halo-
By and bye,
balance comes alone
as attitude control.
A hovering soul,
holding a body in space
that filter feeds on forces
consuming raw data
for a sensual feast
with a heavy tip
for the payload.
Image by NASA and originally uploaded to wikipedia by Reubenbarton [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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