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Serendipity has triumphed and so has taken the mantle. While she won't be present, she wishes that we go on without her. Fair enough. Her rules, and post, are here.
Yes, yes, I put a few up off the cuff. Never elegant. I am a blue collar poet, if at all. Perhaps darkly, albeit. Hush, puppy.
[Lyrics]
Yes and No Are True
exact twin or ghost
what is seen is and isn't
horror or magic
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| Reflections of a Broken Soul |
Less the Eye
what is revealed
is often the lesser of what
is realized
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Awakening
crystallized memory
beauty, darkness, love, pain- aggregate-
caeteris paribus
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When I was a Child
recall of recall
thoughts before knowledge- gentle
gift of innocence
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Lost in a Different Mirror
revelation ideation
alpha and omega, sumtotal-
but can't see one's self?
Nice start Doom. Thanks for stopping in.
ReplyDeleteI'll keep in mind your schedule. Sometimes it is like that. Has been for me lately, for sure!
You snuck up on me! Welcome and it was my pleasure to visit. Here and I thought the cat was away. *squeak!*
ReplyDeleteI am pleased you didn't dismiss out of hand. Many don't understand.
That reflections of a broken soul sounds a bit like a title I gave one of my art works in the mid nineties..
ReplyDeleteI dismantled much of it. However, just a couple of days ago my oldest took what was left because he thought it was cool. It was a mirror tile 12x 12" that I had carefully shattered. With something similar to mod pudge I applied actuall ashes and charcoal to the mirror and rubbed it into the mirror cracks. When you look into it you are reflected back in a broken way.
These are dark, Doom .. And dare I say .. so uniquely you .. :-). I like 'em.
I know, dark. But it's just... the way things are. These are my realities. I'm not sure I would change it, at least now.
ReplyDeleteHmm, sounds like you had your own dark notions. Your art was less aggressive, would only be seen for what it really means by those who know. And yet quite dark indeed. Does your son understand the totem? Ashes, eh?
my oldest is a pretty insightful young adult. He understands more theni probably realize.
ReplyDeleteKnowing you the bit I do, I could see that. Mother's feed first with flesh, then with spirit and knowledge. And sons do see, even the darkness, even young. Hopefully still more in a playful manner. A dalliance and curiosity without much more to it, until the bill comes to fruition and prices, and choices, must be made... some regretted even if understood and accepted.
ReplyDeleteThere is enough time for gloom. I certainly hopes he enjoys his trinket gift from the troubles of another mind, especially his mother's. A tasty haul, one he may enjoy in new ways his whole life through. One that brings him back to the thought of mother. Another safety net, though one he will need to redefine. Yum!
I swears, you post faster than a jackrabbit thumping the night fantastic'O!... I can't keep up!
ReplyDeleteThought I'd do a bit reflecting, though, as I LOVE that second poem. Amazing how the mind can piece through the wreckage, filling in the cracks.
Dark is relative, at best...
Fast? I thought I was a trainwreck of slow. But then I am out of sorts all over the place, so... relative may have more context than just darkness?
ReplyDeleteThe second one you say? Yeah... The first one hurt to write. The second one seemed okay until it snuck up and nearly strangled me. I think it's pretty, maybe even beautiful. I guess beauty has built in selfdefenses?
Did you read foam wrote that she actually created a cracked mirror as pictured, filling the spaces with ash? Great dark minds and all...
Oh, if there are typos... I can't see all that well. Just got back from the eye doc. Don't know what all he put in, but I think he used everything but, I am hoping, toilet water. Gah! Can't see well to edit yet.
Eck.. The enlarged pupil eye treatment! Should be better now?
ReplyDeleteJust getting better. I was trying out some one day contacts. My eyes weren't doing well with or in them. Pulled those and it has started to improve. I can actually easily read what I am writing, but it's still pretty bright, hurts a bit. So... A bit of dark room R&R I think, for a while longer.
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