Chiasma Poems | Examples


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Premium Member Wicking Willow Wood

polysemy
protrudes, prodding power
letting chiasma
churn and curdle
ply poet-marriage:

an anankean lockless key—a dower
set upon a
dorseless tower

I eat my crow,
drowned in chowder

time sealed in
the wicking willow wood


—CODA—

I don’t want to
be solved

I want to be
inhabited

working in
dream-logic
surrealist
disjunctive fissures

places where
contradictions coexist

that is— 
precisely
pointless

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Ammonite

One falls alone to the abyss of self,
to the faculties cast in this skin wrap.

Study of snail fingers
 groping in the dark,
numina occulta,
forging light.

Already internal at the bottom of the night,
everything speaks, everything is sound.

To see, a major faculty is relieved;
a shell.

Contemplation of the chiasma,
 inaudible static of the heart's own crackling.

Compressed in this tiny chamber,
the incoercible sea,
the mystical ear of the sublime self,
the sea, the impregnable sea.

Lonely Vs Loneliness

My heart struck it's last forlorn chiasma
Nothing change 
The stencil was ink free 
Avalanche of memories ran down mind
They were beautiful alas reality was my fear

Staying strong I tried
Distance I bravely wage war upon 
For it invaded my moments 
It placed me in a cordon and gift me loneliness 

We are separated by the sea and ocean 
The mountains and hills too
But we share the sky like portion 
I'm counting stars four hours ahead 

Rising to the lonely morning 
Admittedly a sad tale to pen 
Oh empty me fill with words 
She's gone for 1,008 hours and left me with thee


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