Blunting Poems

silent kills

...Silent It Kills
In the quiet corners of your heart, pain took root.
He, the architect of hurt, wove his cruelty,
thread by thread, into your fragile tapestry.
And you? You bore it silently,
a se...

NOT HOLDING HANDS

...
Why couldn't I hold your hand? You ask
Yourself in golden bowers of infinity -
Was it because he felt too old to do it?
It was too infantile an act to make?

Questions! Always ...

Delusion To Illumination

...If not this, then that,
arguments fall flat,
our ire 
grows as we contract,
with love and light lacked,
cold fire
forms with fears a pact;
being ego backed,
we tire.

Objects we aspire
and...

Strings

...She carries home onions in a string bag.
She walks in time-dinged tweed and wilted woolens
She is of age and does not count her days.
She knuckles cords of twisted tendons.
She treads low-heeled ...

Detoured

...Deft tiptoing of enemy feet
Trails progress of this ink;
Such that when one word 
I pen I must pose to think. 

Usurping hand’s derailment
Detracts my scribblings too;
So when firing thoughts ...

Fried Turtles

...Fried Turtles
The little dog chews on the blue wire
His sharp teeth need blunting
So he picked this bomb wire to gnaw
He likes biting and such like
One of his main interests
His master’s finger...

Faith Transcends Fear

...Residing in the deepest crevices of self-doubt
Where dark shadows shroud the damaged identity
Fear, like a disease that suffocates, cripples the soul,
Languishes within the breast, tighteni...

Visage

...Mortal bonds, the chains of flesh 
Shackle a weary spirit
To a crushing forlorn succession 
Of a failing in the means to find answers 
Any action, bound to be
A fruitless endeavor
Disquieted pa...

We Closed the Brothel

...We closed the brothel, by a love gesture
Fortuitous, when our soul did mature
Blunting oldest profession, not simple
Call it if we will, divine miracle
Earths magnetic field shift, caused hearts ...

Operation Barbarossa

...Operation Barbarossa 
the panzers start to roll,
Breaking out from Poland’s Baltic,
towards Sevastopol, 
Ten million soldiers strong,
go goose-stepping east,
The Fuhrer’s Wehrmacht, 
alongside...

Mine Mean Mien Hence Deserved Cross To Bare

...Mine Mean Mien, Hence Deserved Cross To Bare

Upon reflection of fatherhood,
onset of hands-on schooling 
fraught with narcissism
a role I lept in unaware 
with slim success
unknowingly porten...

The Lobby

...A lobby's meant to represent
The building it is fronting,
To welcome all who enter
From the elements it's blunting.

It may be fancy, to impress
Or functional and boring
But either way, it gre...

Haiku: Haiku Cuts Haiku - This Is Not a Title

...mind's edge blunted
desert devoid of markers
my tears wet dry sand

Brian Johnston
July 29,2014

Poet' notes: 
Well, this can loosely be called a 'Physics Haiku' as well in the sense that both Poetry...

Treacle the Dragon

...Lanterns held high
deep inside the mountain,
peering through darkness
together we beheld,
oh! Such a slimy pit.
Brother’s I declare,
beware the great dragon, Treacle.
What a jest, Smile hearti...

Jobless

...You are now an outsider
No longer part of the mechanism
Not needed, surplus to requirement, redundant
Your mind slowly blunting at the bottom of the bottom drawer of life

The eyes of others betray d...

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