Another worldview
Law
at dawn's sacrificial wading
a groove sweetly prized
as the relative truth of our frantic, overgrown hallucination
in sickening respite
from the earliest lame vanity
before the show appears
as human death
powerless to the mold
resounding to an inner frequency
deranged sad laughter
groaned thick in a sumptuous tumult
under the prying talons
a delectable fire answers in blues-swing hoodlum homes
temporary as the submissive
upbringing of one purifying lash
rending the nerve-wracked fingers
of torturous warring
within the Nile’s tantrum phase
skinny, lingering smoke fix
and we eye the 99 names
to the moment's reaching up
to the negative female symbol
comrade against these forbidden culturati
timed to the arrival of the outdoor preacher
worshipping the lost dead
world of stone and writing.
at dawn's sacrificial wading
a groove sweetly prized
as the relative truth of our frantic, overgrown hallucination
in sickening respite
from the earliest lame vanity
before the show appears
as human death
powerless to the mold
resounding to an inner frequency
deranged sad laughter
groaned thick in a sumptuous tumult
under the prying talons
a delectable fire answers in blues-swing hoodlum homes
temporary as the submissive
upbringing of one purifying lash
rending the nerve-wracked fingers
of torturous warring
within the Nile’s tantrum phase
skinny, lingering smoke fix
and we eye the 99 names
to the moment's reaching up
to the negative female symbol
comrade against these forbidden culturati
timed to the arrival of the outdoor preacher
worshipping the lost dead
world of stone and writing.
Northern mind
lip sweet
and unfettered thought
swung music
intensified in the intimate romantic environment
ideal collection of the two-bodied
trailing waves in the ocean
of serene all-encompassed feeling
silently bringing the visions of the blessed to realized heights
in amnesic bliss
hearing only the fizzing of a tongue
sifting through the hydrated glory of a deep violet sight
darkly fixed inside the arborescent wilderness
to the foreign drum of an impenetrable toxicity
left unconsumed and needed by feet
lit under concrete sustained magic
of the urban disillusioned
northern mind
bringing in the steady rings of a consciousness
prepared as the instrument of a government culture
performing the theatrical stronghold
of minority no-release
a fish-burdened town of extracted marrow
through procedural temperaments
that go un-led and steam up
with chaotic strictures
that demean the meaning
of man and woman
or masculine-feminine time
and unfettered thought
swung music
intensified in the intimate romantic environment
ideal collection of the two-bodied
trailing waves in the ocean
of serene all-encompassed feeling
silently bringing the visions of the blessed to realized heights
in amnesic bliss
hearing only the fizzing of a tongue
sifting through the hydrated glory of a deep violet sight
darkly fixed inside the arborescent wilderness
to the foreign drum of an impenetrable toxicity
left unconsumed and needed by feet
lit under concrete sustained magic
of the urban disillusioned
northern mind
bringing in the steady rings of a consciousness
prepared as the instrument of a government culture
performing the theatrical stronghold
of minority no-release
a fish-burdened town of extracted marrow
through procedural temperaments
that go un-led and steam up
with chaotic strictures
that demean the meaning
of man and woman
or masculine-feminine time
Lonesome day of movement
grown thin with distance
as another hairy, greased band shines
reckless before the arrow spy
and his envisioned grave
who hails cabs
in the Siberian gruel of angry change
as we ransack the factories of uproarious disrepair
and the mechanistic bored train crashes
killing the meagre European glance
into the frantic rush of civilized absence
lonesome day of movement
through spider web sands
and drunken coasts
of blood red remorse
filing in by the pulp fiction pages
breeding scummy eyes that talk in kisses
and swoon on the porch of another early breakfast
groom who wails curiously at night for the pub dreary life
that awaits
after the cut string of golden dreams seethes and falls
to the ash of the smoky avalanche noon
in Canada’s hibernation mind
of the un-bloomed
and unborn
wenches who lament
the dry phantom queen and her uncaring cool sleeping high
with simple touches of the grave beyond
landing in sun croaked alien poverty
my first wishes grow callous
at the knock of a burnt vegetable gum
that sneaks into the cracks of layered skin
beaming with the color of a white night
turning in late with the last nest of wild being
unloved rhythms, fuming with uninspired dread
as we caress the lung wired cane
of bone sweat
carved merciless into the roaming wood
that answers in black hills
and a flat womb of earth
as another hairy, greased band shines
reckless before the arrow spy
and his envisioned grave
who hails cabs
in the Siberian gruel of angry change
as we ransack the factories of uproarious disrepair
and the mechanistic bored train crashes
killing the meagre European glance
into the frantic rush of civilized absence
lonesome day of movement
through spider web sands
and drunken coasts
of blood red remorse
filing in by the pulp fiction pages
breeding scummy eyes that talk in kisses
and swoon on the porch of another early breakfast
groom who wails curiously at night for the pub dreary life
that awaits
after the cut string of golden dreams seethes and falls
to the ash of the smoky avalanche noon
in Canada’s hibernation mind
of the un-bloomed
and unborn
wenches who lament
the dry phantom queen and her uncaring cool sleeping high
with simple touches of the grave beyond
landing in sun croaked alien poverty
my first wishes grow callous
at the knock of a burnt vegetable gum
that sneaks into the cracks of layered skin
beaming with the color of a white night
turning in late with the last nest of wild being
unloved rhythms, fuming with uninspired dread
as we caress the lung wired cane
of bone sweat
carved merciless into the roaming wood
that answers in black hills
and a flat womb of earth
I’ve been taken, not today.
For so long now, I’ve been taken
But not today.
The spell of my urban hermitage has now broken
In a place where all prayers are spells
There is only one way out of this dream
I need helpers
A conscious community
To lead freely, without bickering for followers
My hermitage walls have given way to a translucent realization
Beholden with rage
I am disquiet and feed strength with tears
Tied in a knot
The way to get untangled is to create
Consumption has been a frequent spell in this broken palace of towers and rain
I hear the engines of folly
As they drain the black earth of all color and frighten the terrorized youth
White
Greed is suckling the thirsty mother’s teat
Her eyes are wet with separation
For your love has aged beyond the fruits of her chest
You are getting old now
Taste the milk from the divine
There is none sweeter
Cuddle close under the embrace of the absent one
She is inside
Your mind need not work to produce the fruits of her labor within you
Confront your pain
A ghost waits
At the top of the universe, hang on while it lowers you to grace
Death is not hate
Do not be short-changed by the living hell of the crackling incinerator
The hearse Earth vibrates to weak leisure and silly goals
Your tongue is the pith of all ground
Walk lightly upon its unchanging core
Spill your inborn need without ransomed poverty
Scale the cliffs beyond inhumane judgment
Your is one name
Unshared
Though you retain mystery
From the recoiling lore of intuition
Full as the harvest moon in your empty belly
Fast for the power torn from you
That it should bear more likely hands
To shape the instruments of friendship and respect with equal humanity
But not today.
The spell of my urban hermitage has now broken
In a place where all prayers are spells
There is only one way out of this dream
I need helpers
A conscious community
To lead freely, without bickering for followers
My hermitage walls have given way to a translucent realization
Beholden with rage
I am disquiet and feed strength with tears
Tied in a knot
The way to get untangled is to create
Consumption has been a frequent spell in this broken palace of towers and rain
I hear the engines of folly
As they drain the black earth of all color and frighten the terrorized youth
White
Greed is suckling the thirsty mother’s teat
Her eyes are wet with separation
For your love has aged beyond the fruits of her chest
You are getting old now
Taste the milk from the divine
There is none sweeter
Cuddle close under the embrace of the absent one
She is inside
Your mind need not work to produce the fruits of her labor within you
Confront your pain
A ghost waits
At the top of the universe, hang on while it lowers you to grace
Death is not hate
Do not be short-changed by the living hell of the crackling incinerator
The hearse Earth vibrates to weak leisure and silly goals
Your tongue is the pith of all ground
Walk lightly upon its unchanging core
Spill your inborn need without ransomed poverty
Scale the cliffs beyond inhumane judgment
Your is one name
Unshared
Though you retain mystery
From the recoiling lore of intuition
Full as the harvest moon in your empty belly
Fast for the power torn from you
That it should bear more likely hands
To shape the instruments of friendship and respect with equal humanity
If I could speak...
If I had a voice...
What would I say to a stranger passing by?
To hold them fast in that moment
Against the confident pressure of my heart
What would I say to a new acquaintance?
To ensure they hear my voice
Balancing delicately over the thrifty ledge
Of a shy and battered mind
What would I say to a causal friend?
That they may lift their self to know me
To meet each other anew
At a higher and closer level than ever before
Recognizing our presence
What would I say to an old friend?
That I may say again at their funeral
With love in my heart
What would I say to each individual in my family?
To all, I will say:
“Speak!
And I will listen.”
What would I say to a stranger passing by?
To hold them fast in that moment
Against the confident pressure of my heart
What would I say to a new acquaintance?
To ensure they hear my voice
Balancing delicately over the thrifty ledge
Of a shy and battered mind
What would I say to a causal friend?
That they may lift their self to know me
To meet each other anew
At a higher and closer level than ever before
Recognizing our presence
What would I say to an old friend?
That I may say again at their funeral
With love in my heart
What would I say to each individual in my family?
To all, I will say:
“Speak!
And I will listen.”
© Rusty Kjarvik 2012
Rusty Kjarvik is an emerging writer, world music percussionist and artist. His poetry has been accepted in various online and print publications including 3:AM Magazine, The Body Electric Anthology (and/or), Steel Bananas, ditch, and Marco Polo Arts Magazine. He has also published short fiction in Haggard & Halloo and visual art in Maad Sheep. He performs music regularly with Vi An Diep and lives in Calgary, Alberta where he blogs at www.rkjarvik.blogspot.com.
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