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Pinhead Writ Metamorphosis

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based on the works of Pinhead, from ‘Driveway’ to ‘Smoking at Sexton’s grave’, with liberties...
 

 

 

Furies assaulting, pulsing, ringing
breaching the ramparts of our exposed sticky blood
we are compelled to send libations to the wet moon’s gift of ill winds
in the pock-faced biting rain
and liquid mountains of the Bitch-Goddess
singing our funeral dirge with slit eyes straining...
so against this we send a simple man with an open heart
and a mauve stone...


 

The ashen blue skies reflect our smiling faces
as we raise our eyes from the earth
and plug in our blue guitars and gyrate
while spurting warm pulses of vibrating steel
that mingle with the lonely breath of God.


 

Naked, we writhe in love and despair
tongues growing thick with piquant secrets
as our love songs float over the chasms of the heart
and the broken dreams of a pseudo-culture
of waving socio-paths engaged in satanic sojourns
beyond unseeing eyes in a miasma of human flesh
who hear the siren’s song and row to their doom
among the craggy reefs of life.


 

War rant rotting entrails of gore greedy with feces well oiled
declared and proclaimed war machines 
duel with mindless medieval chanters  
as God battles Himself in the sands
with nuke-pricked splattered swords
hacking the heads off flowers in a lockstep march
to misunderstood business suits and babbling tyrants in turbans...
one plugged into subjugated veiled female war receptacles
and the other into brassy braless spinsters with peace signs...


 

Back home on the river’s quiet, verdant shores
we find dancing to the quiet drums of sprouting seedlings and babies
with blueberry giggles
the silken interludes of mankind’s conscience
which is then laid out on polished stone
and sprinkled throughout the northern lands
trod over by the gentle feet of a teacher, dancer, and a muse
skipping over road-kill and moonbeams
scattered among the rhubarb and dandelions
and through the sex-scented urban driveways of rust-bucket pickups.


 

Here in the twenty-first century schizoid men waltz
among gold coins buried in the ghosts of fire spirits
that travel in canoes to escape America...
and encounter a garden of hummingbirds at the end of a country lane.


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 

Author notes

based on the works of Pinhead, from ‘Driveway’ to ‘Smoking at Sexton’s grave’, with liberties...

Damn, you did write this! (sorta) lol
Written November 15th, 2005

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  • ecrivain01
    December 14, 2005
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    great write

    This is quite a write. I'm still not sure what to make of it, but it's obvious that it's a great poem. I suppose though, despite the fabulous imagery and word usage throughout, I'd be most interested in that garden of hummingbirds.

    Astounding write, mon vieux.


  • kryspin
    December 3, 2005
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    hmm excellent homage.
    i did find these versa rather amusing:
    scattered among the rhubarb and dandelions
    and through the sex-scented urban driveways of rust-bucket pickups.


    especially the driveways


  • wbiro gold member
    November 16, 2005
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    thanks, Image, so it looks like you went from me, to better (Pinhead) to best (Ann Sexton)! If you made any connections, you deserve all the credit! lol


  • wbiro gold member
    November 16, 2005
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    so what now what? Yes, Ab, that is the question! nice poetic critique, too!


  • wbiro gold member
    November 16, 2005
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    thanks, Danna, glad you enjoyed my little abstract painting with the paints I stole from Pinhead!

  • wbiro gold member
    November 16, 2005
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    glad you liked it, fellen angel... it is a certain kind of write, I'd call it 'abstract', containing thoughts and feelings that may or may not be of any benefit to the reader!

  • wbiro gold member
    November 16, 2005
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    deep and meaningless... yes, Ghenghis, you state the obvious for a piece in the 'weird' category... nevertheless you are wrong on both counts, and only a circular argument can prove it...


  • wbiro gold member
    November 16, 2005
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    glad you enjoyed it, Pin! I could have gone on all night long if I didn't need sleep...!


  • wbiro gold member
    November 16, 2005
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    thanks, Wat, yes, now I see it- the rants, the peaceful things, and the zen... of Pinhead!


  • Image and Visions silver member
    November 16, 2005
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    wbire, I admit for a much of this I was confused, of course there was intent and focus, it just didn't sink in until I went and erad pinhead's work. Then still not understanding his work, I had to read from Anne Sexton, bio and some of her pieces. So not only have I read several good piece, but I am also enducated on an inspirational figure of our past. Thank you for indirectly enlightening me. image and Visions.


  • Abdul T Alishtari
    November 16, 2005
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    This is my reviw

    Your matamorphosis metaphors within
    mysteries within similies spin
    apparently with some transparency
    and elegant moral simplicity.

    I reflect on it
    your modernistic multi-media writ
    sculpting expression's transcendant progression
    through synergy in medium.

    So what now what
    as mantra now erupts
    from lips consuming profund
    so fat its rotund.


  • Danna Hobart
    November 16, 2005
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    Like Night Hope said, this was very cool. I love the imagery you use, it felt like I was watching a sci-fi movie.


  • a fellen angel
    November 16, 2005
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    this is really well done i like the picture you used it's not something i see every day, even though that would be cool, but we're not going to get in to that right now. this was a really good rewrite of one of your freinds poems, and you don't see that happening that offten.

  • Ghenghis
    November 16, 2005
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    Deep and meaningless

    There is clearly a knack to this. Very profound. So profound I can see it coming out the other side.


  • just rob gold member
    November 16, 2005
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    Da$%, I wish I wrote that.Almost embarrasing that I totally understand. This is cool as hell. First one anyone wrote for me.[blush] This is all you. The way the borrowed phrases were used along with the BEST lines,[all your own], made this a wonderful read and a grand adventure. Thanks, too, for taking the time to read so much of my drivel. Thanks, my friend!
    Peace, Rob


  • Watuwant silver member
    November 16, 2005
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    lol. Nicely done, wbiro. You captured much of the essence of our friend Pinhead, from his angst filled rants to his love of the simple things that life offers, and his zen like qualities.
    peace
    doug


  • FallingSideways silver member
    November 16, 2005
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    WOW... this is the most angst I have seen spewed, and from what your author comments, 'collected' in quite some time...whew...


  • Night Hope gold member
    November 15, 2005
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    Very cool, Wayne...amazing write/rewrite, my Friend...Heyah, Rob...he did one for me, too, called 'Voyage into the Titles of Night Hope'...it was awesome!!! Well done, Wayne...great morphed picture, too... Wanda

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