You drag the dreamers down below
into a glass filled with moons and stars
while you sip fire to numb yourself
from all the guilt you suffer
little things are silent
and sunlight burns neat piles of leaves
the sky has a hungry mouth, into which
you try throwing children to
like old toy balloons sold to them
by jesus christ
because he is beautiful
how dirty are you darling
carrying your doll with holes
where the eyes once were,
how weird
and the tinsel hair floats
like souls from now dead aunts
AND ANTSYOUBURNED
with glasses
trying to find the sea
do doctors know of saviors
and shamans, celestial men who
throw snowflakes at the ground
and mountains at the sun
to sacrifice poor, pitiful boys
who smile pretty for the grave
and for hell
here's a creature
awanderin'
and screaming at the ceiling
"i understand the ways of god
and I understand Ego
Cogito ergo sum!"
But the little insect is naked
and masturbates to flowers
dumb dumb dizzy dizzy dumb dumb
little fly
pivot and smile
so fragile, like planets
so jealous, like darkness
so - erotic
like
fear?
I saw fear in the dust
that children pray to
I saw fools with rusty eyes
who know a great deal
about the mechanics of spring
and summer, and the movement
of insects around the home
But the rain trembles and
rushes lost bodies towards
the other side of the sun
hereisthedarkwhe
rewewander
through decay
andbirthdand
more decay
wilt
grow
orgasm -
This is the word hunger
This is the word death
Plague
and
this is a poem for god
the bruised brute of flesh,
the obscene woman or man
who strikes the world
and smiles, a tongue of love and terror
Prophecies are prophecies
and I love my body
encased in the hills
like a ghost
lost in the
naked sky.
A contest entry
- look deep. by Ryno.
600 points, ended November 12, 2008, 15 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What did you think
Comments
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An amazing soul journey profound painful and inspiring. Excellent.
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Your ending totally did it for me.
Congrats on silver. -
You had me from start to finish. Your images just grabbed me in and I couldn't stop reading. The emotions are raw, and real feeling and the intensity is A+.
While, I think that we have different views, I will respect yours and tell you that you have ingeniously expressed them in this piece.
"through decay
andbirthdand
more decay"
This part threw me off. Did you mean to put the d between birth and and? And if you did, why?
And...yup..thats about it.
Thanks for your entry!
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i am truly left awestruck
i wish this had been in my contest'
yea, i'm a bit jealous and a a bit
defeated!
damn, i thought i had a chance but this is a freakin' masterpiece
blown away....
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