MEMORIES OF WAR
MEMORIES OF WAR
In prison we turmoiled
packed up cards to fall
whilst they sucked
genitals like bonbons
a quartz on a table
gleamed its knowing
War torn ghettos with
swollen stomachs
stretched wide, auras
shattered, splintered
blood aflow, fainting in vomit
march and tread, tread and march
trenches our dread homes at
morn or on midnight quests
We seeped in quagmire
teargas in our gut
AKs hidden across veld
victims and victors
in a self-destructive
soar seeking story
Migrants and mice in swirl
sweaty doom dust tears
gremlins gyrating, ligaments
shredded throbbing hearts
filled our chests gasping
lungs gaping knees
whispers in shadows
rape on car seats
We wrought bars with
bone and marrow
nostrils flared as we fell in
pots of boiling soup through
church windows jumping from
canine teeth and batons high
crawled in passages
with blood-soaked Ts
We escaped hyenas in
wool coats as they
summoned slick oiled
brothers squint eyed souls
whose essence floated
in dank hidden caves
Sickly salamander in toiletry
bag, pride tied hate in knots
Sirius glittered in sadness
as they microscoped each dot
whilst leaders lied to make
magic in foreign lands
A soldier saw his time
luminous black eyes rolling
onto fragment front garden
hands outstretched for
his last breyani
guns loaded & waiting
my jellied nerves handed
the package and bottled
water
Sisters in psyche said :
Run baby run
dance with rainbows pure
Escape !
We broke our chains
and so can you !
Run for Goddess’ spirit wild
free from rampant chaos
dirty washbasins of the past
from broken rovers in
a square watching when
Death whispers “Come”
and boots have no laces
Run baby run
onto a plain with Arabian horses
tangled hair holding reins
spill tattered tortured throat
loosen skeletal fingers
on your gutted glands
freshen scarred face with
market place oranges
cough your secrets
into a far off volcano
then drink it’s fire
a tetrahedron for your heart
your body is but a
timelined vehicle !
Far in the distance a knighted
serpent waited his time before
jumping onto straight backs of
warm winds somewhere in
Eastern Russia to make
new music riddles
Oaks on our side
we marched along...
crystals gave light in drains
of mushy dung
we thrust away black
corners with turquoise skies
whilst a mother hid behind her
son, saw salmon pink views
white vapour dissipating
stampedes of ignorance
Raphael carrying broken
bodies when our minds
cracked their coded creeps
Our freedom waved clear
Atlantis was not so far gone
with embryos curled up there
waiting to be born onto Earth
spirit babies so patient and
softly pure
We ran with frantic courage
strength of ebony holding
bloodied fingernails in split
molars askew, unbrushed
cacti smashed smithereens
as we raced through tunnels
relishing one glass of juice
at day’s sunset lit
Lice sucked our blood
on the prison floor
We drank our water
from cell corner toilet pot
our hearts exposed
like pomegranates
spent across our bellies
stabs leaking slow
muddy tears
Still our visions did not fail
even with Hades’ blunt
digits choking in spasms
lips in pink like a silenced
canary in rusty cage
marbled chiselled by
fallen angels whilst
dragons slept
soundless sleeps
We knew our heavens
were to descend with
lovely mists and fountains
when parrots fly in backyards
and we gleefully watch
elephants birthing or
take a cold mountain
stream dive
Memories fade or are
relinquished like rose
petals from broken vases
making space for fresh
oxygen whiffs becoming
packaged data
matchboxed with lyran
mane hairs
What are these memories ?
framed photos spread on
new bedcover for a tiny
fire in my pupils
undilating
©GhairoDanielsPoetry
&Song2002
Copyright © Ghairo Daniels | Year Posted 2024
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