Cadmium Poems | Examples

Prismed Face: An Abstraction

*Please note: 
I'm not in the throes of sadness.  Just a write for another poetry site.
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My eyes are half closed for I fear to see
what worry and anxiety have made of me.
All day I've been twisted out of shape,
wincing at my disheveled appearance.
Life has taken a toll with its interference.

My mirrored face is a prism, a color spectrum,
reflections that indicate the paths I've traveled.
It's no wonder I look completely unraveled
and seem to be moving in opposite directions.

I'm an abstract work of art, hastily brushed
with my own hand when I'm feeling rushed.
Blue when sadness tears my world in two,
Cadmium yellow on days when I feel mellow.

When heated anger tints my soul, my cheeks
flush with shades of red and buff. It's been weeks
since I've felt bold enough to paint with oils.
Misfortune leaves me feeling like used tin foil.

I must pull myself back together and gather
my thoughts. Untwist the ropes that tether me.
Too many worries have crisscrossed my face
and spying eyes I've come to intensely despise.

I Want To Tell You, But

There’s a hell of a lot going on inside my mind
I wish I could tell you everything
The way you
always used to listen.

I wish I could run to you and share all of it
From my tiniest wins to my biggest falls
I’m dying to hear just one line from you:
“Say... I’m listening.”

All these unsaid words
They’re building up inside me
Like a nuclear chain reaction,
Each thought giving birth to a thousand emotions.

I wish you were still my cadmium rod
The one who could calm the storm
Who kept me steady
when everything inside was burning.

Can you imagine how difficult it is
For someone like me,
A heart-on-sleeve kind of soul,
To hold everything?

To pick up the phone
Only to put it right back down
Because I remember
You’re not there to hear it anymore.

october brushed by

october brushed by

 in the midst of an october sunrise
 bearing splashes of colors beyond description
 like a thick acrylic paint mixture
 crimson with cadmium yellow
 thrown…scattered like seed…by the hand of god
 morning unfolds like a delicate rose 

 light crawls like aching fingers
 touching soft lips that moisten the sands,
 retreating, sliding like two bodies too close
 to be parted, moving slowly, one advancing-
retreating, wave at a time. 
 
 the water returns—
 –to the water
 the sand to the sand
 and yet the light to darkness 

 i’m sinking beneath the surface of my soul
 void of color, gray on gray on gray
 as a jacket of black smothers me
 suffocating me
 gripping my heart
 until i see evil being squeezed out

 jealousy is green, greed is yellow
 hatred is black and deceit is red
 until at last
 god has taken the ugliness of my heart
 squeezed my evil
 and fashioned a brand new color
 for tomorrow’s rainbow 

 all get one
 just one
 and you will remember yours

tolbert

Memento On The Moon

A tsunami of black ash blankets half a world
Trash toadstool hoodoos, wastelandic pillage
and pollutant mucus ravishes lava villages
Draining is the amalgam mass at the end of the spectrum
Stone environs shock, unnatural landscapes 
Polyethylene islands flushing the canvas
Carbon contaminant fumes flair in mid drift air
Virtually no place on Earth is free of the polymer fog
Foaming magma cascades over metallic mushroom roots
Spiny shoots sprout tentacles from rubber trees
Mercury and cadmium toxin leeches' groundwater
Above the quicksand are flying objects that pass as vultures 
For a million magarican dollars I was greeted by a masked spacebot
Left on moonlit Luna's Lot are my collection of yin-yang art articles

- Colorful -

                                          Cadmium yellow
                                       the terrestrial versions
                                     on palette for air painters
                                     birds with bright plumage
                                not colors straight from the tube
                                        color theory complete

                                           Harmony focus
                                    a great dose of color joy
                                           velvety feelings
                                          sunflower beauty
                                    in a world full of romance
                                          force of attraction

                                          Spin the carousel
                                       exuberant atmosphere
                                    with fascinating backdrops
                                         ride rocking horses
                                   hand painted by the rainbow
                                     allows you to be seduced

Frazzled

My eyes are half closed for I fear to see
what worry and anxiety have made of me.
All day I have been twisted out of shape,
wincing at my disheveled appearance.
Life has taken a toll with its interference.

My mirrored face is a prism, a color spectrum,
frazzled reflections of the paths I've traveled.
It's no wonder I look completely unraveled
and seem to be moving in opposite directions.

I'm an abstract work of art, hastily brushed
with my own hand when I'm feeling rushed.
Blue when sadness tears my world in two,
Cadmium yellow on days when I feel mellow.

When anger tints darkness on my soul, my cheeks
are flushed with shades of pink. It's been weeks
since I've felt bold enough to paint with oils.
Misfortune leaves me feeling like used tin foil
or memories that should be buried in the soil.

I have need to gather all of my frazzled thoughts
and loosen them from the ropes that tether me.
Too many worries have wrinkled my facial parts
and from spying eyes that I despise, I need to be free.

Last Flight

In flaxen flight, you soar to amber clouds
like icarus, cadmium wings touch
the helios and steal its golden glow.

Flame

Sit unflinching in a slumbered pose
each exhaled breath like a moor's mist,
a rhythmic pulse like a metronome 
on the thin temples throb 
like a snare drum's distant beat
but closer...much closer.

Yet watch the candle flame's heat,
curving and caressing the air
like a finch's cadmium wings
morphing in shadow 
beating silently at midnight's
last cloaking at day's close,

Is it a temptation
reflections of loss
like a moth who is inveigled
into the fatal scorching flames, 
slowly seduced by beauty's fantasy
whose warmth bathes our aching limbs.

As time slows to tacky treacle, 
oozing minutes into hours
when the fire freezes the moment.

But with love, 
the flame is wrath-furnaced, 
dissolves like ice cubes.
Then symphonies are syncronised
as a phoenix sets its spiralled flight 
that corkscrews the singing stars... regenerated.

Evening Performance

The lights lower.
The invisible conductor 
raises
his magic wand.
Sounds swell. All musicians
in the cicada orchestra
play the tymbal.
Bats dance
to the firefly light show
against a backdrop
of cadmium blue.

Night drops the curtain.
Tireless,
the players continue –
music until dawn.

July 12, 2018

N/A July Premiere (Brian Strand), judged 7/13

Contaminated

CONTAMINATED

                 Contaminated
Don’t understand it
Fell in sewer, can’t stand it;
Live and dead rats raccoons;
Walkin, floatin
Dirty, polluted waters
Manure other unspeakable sources
Don’t understand it
               Contaminated
Harmful bacteria on food
Food poisoning
With bacteria, viruses
Chemicals or poisonous metals
Such as lead or cadmium.
              Contaminated
Something unpleasant
Is harmful  if spreaded on
Ends up in food, in our lungs
Land dirt, grasses
Air, animal/human skin
Even breathe in can happen in one of three ways
Physical spiritual condemnation
              Contaminated
When items such as hair, glass, plasters, dirt, insects
Other foreign bodies are present in food.
Usually visible,
              Contaminated
Most time hard to live with
Variety of mechanisms.
Inadequate hand washing
Mouth to mouth
Touch to touch
Body to body, yuk!
Body to inanimate objects
     Contaminated?


4/2/18

dear Gustav -

oh ...

Gustav, how you pique the senses
          captured passion's plural tenses

lovers twined in percale folds
          caught supine with spattered golds

porcelain dolls in fetal slumbers
          brushed sublime in tans and umbers

bold, the bleeds of Burnt Sienna
          stippling scapes of fair Vienna

Yellow Ochre, Prussian Green
          Cadmium Yellow, Blue Indanthrene

trees like soldiers, lilting boughs
          abstractions spun of silken vows

ceilings meant to thus adorn
          gilded graces - Heaven-borne

waters, tranquil - tresses, bare
          a world composing textures, rare

you struggled long to e'er refine
          your critics and uncommon line

subjects some then found appalling
          yet, remained, your faithful calling

imbibing absinthe, sans a chaser
          life you sketched with no eraser

and while we mortals can but dream
          you left the world your gauzy gleam

so death would not define the worth
          of genius meant to shake ...

the earth.






~ 2nd Place ~  in the "Klimt" Poetry Contest, Anthony Slausen, Judge & Sponsor.

Divine Masterpiece God Painted the Heavens

God Painted the Heavens
"Divine Masterpiece"

The sky was shrouded dark and spiritless

God thereupon painted the heavens

Mixing and blending amber and lemon hues

with the brightest bright,

flickering fire behind the waves of clouds



then,


drawing a straight line on the horizon  harmonizing color.

Blending thalo and cadmium red for its darkest tone

separating the clouds from the ocean giving it motion



Blending and feathering 

contrasting colors

for a mirrored look,

as the sun gives a   glaze finish

coming alive with His  divine breath



10/10/2016

The Colors of Living Life

i was dreaming of 
  colors    inside
my lonely Soul  of
Cobalt violet
and viridian skies
Inside keeping my
heart so cadmium yellow;
Claude Monet's lilies
keeps me alive.
Imagine cobalt blue,
a peace upon the canvas
lead white kissing 
with French ultramarine skies
and we hold hands
-- where we leave grief
and misunderstanding
behind.  Kissing beneath
the sun i say, "Cadmium
Orange hugging Vermilion"
And the world murmurs 
"That's so very true."

:: 03212016 ::

Yellow Belles

Cadmium yellow belles
Cymbals clash pale orange specks
Sun bathes in praise

Concrete Idea

Concrete Idea

Metal falls from the sky without sound
Bluish white cadmium and nickel 
Trees follow in their shadow
Disintegrate on contact
A simple thermometer reads common thoughts
When in a dream of water
But this is an element of surprise 
Coming to life in our real world while awake
Science rises to the occasion of simple speculation
Something caused the event near by the lake
Trees just don’t disappear….disintegrate 
An asteroid made of metals could have done it 
Or something similar comes to mind
The September 10, 2013 meteorite discovery 
The 6 tailed asteroid P/2013 P5 made of rocks could be the culprit
Or one of its cousins caused the blaze and ultimate find
Perhaps gneiss, schist; slate or even marble metamorphic rocks
Determined the destruction at the site
It must have been an asteroid of some sort….There’re sure 
But nothing concrete from science is found in this tale
Except the Hubble discovery of a 6 tailed meteor called P/2013 P5
And that’s the only solid idea and concrete thought to share

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