there twasn't lights breaking
embarrassment
no, there is illusions of daybreak
i sieve knowing seas, lasting songs
columned bridges dangling low
on lustless ships
deserting grips
guilty spectacles, hived
crustaceous criminals
devouring sadness
bells fasting to rebuild glowing hours casting
italian imperialists
hunting burning forests with wine
liberated toddlers taunting grandfathers
inside of ticking guillotines
burning pouches of mothers milk
If your ego is capacious
Or your appetite voracious
For a plucky, pertinacious
Confidence in cherished creeds,
Then your genius, though sagacious,
Conjures arguments audacious
Never seeing they’re fallacious:
Truth be told, you’re in the weeds.
Your disease: a contumacious
Predilection for tenacious
Relics of the late Cretaceous
Buried deep within your soul.
Now the clash of clues vexatious
Shows your self-made strait hellacious;
Still your will proves efficacious
To maintain your status quo.
In the face of facts veracious
When your mood is disputatious
You remain unfazed, pugnacious,
With your slowly dying breed.
Your rebuttals wax loquacious
To escape the perspicacious
But they seem a mite mendacious
To the few who pay them heed.
Though my grousing is ungracious
And my rhyming ostentatious
I won’t stoop to be salacious
For the horror’s grim and cold:
While your heart still soars flirtatious,
Charmed by pterosaurs predacious,
Laxness leaves your brain crustaceous,
Drying, hardening in its mold.
SOLARIUM SIDEWINDERS
introverted
hermit crabs
share cavities
appeased in their
shielded double
sanctuaries
solariums of solitude
misplaced platitudes
humoring normalcy
with crustaceous
pet mentality
prisoners of exposé
unventilated cage
soft pink lungs
dried out sponge
obligatory needs
waterdearth
disclosure
solarium sidewinders
discharge
leakage and seepage
exposure
losing all sheltered
composure
© Kim van Breda—28 December 2015
Guilt’s Insistence
by Odin Roark
One’s perception
Often lingers amidst stench and flames
Where personal battles fought
Leave only wounds unhealed
Unsettling dust
And billowing spirits
Weave through porous walls
Embedded with crustaceous regret
Such battered pasts
Remain painful
Awaiting our will to cast aside
Our self-imposed eclipse
And often…
Duration too can tire
Rendering time’s horizon
To drift from consciousness
Becoming but faded memory
Leaving one shackled
With guilt’s insistence
Hug A Taxi Cloud Furnace Inflatable Train
Chug A Deer Sweet Throne Ping Pong Pirate
Examiner Of Creams Unhingeology Tailored Loving Censorship
Fluorescent Tar Indirect Assessment Polite Tick Aeon
Blight Whack Tubular Wells Sense A Ship
EndSource Woven Drips Cheetah Blood
Falcon Dribble Frank Stopp Mastodon't
Rusty Shilling Hardwood Grapetin Walrus Warble
Marble March Flag Drone
Clarifog Crossed Kegs Frog Lawyer
Off Your Dead Sled Polish
Sled Jammer Spray On Fan
FraySpan Bus Flop
Crustaceous Clicks 1 and 2 and Free and More
Hoots With The Fur
Segway To Heaven
Clarified Mutter Puddle Politics
Window Lickin' Spindle Flicker
WORLDS AND WORLDS OF TIME AGO AND BEFORE
IN EONS AND EONS OF MOMENTS OF LIVES
HAVE INHABITED, ON AND IN WORLDS OF WORLDS AROUND,
RESIDED IN WORLDS OF SEAS IN EMBRYONIC STATE
COMPLETED AND VIED WITH CRUSTACEOUS OBSCURITIES
DID DINE AND WAS CONSUMED IN BONELESS APPETITIVE ZEST
ROMPED AND CAJOLED AT PALAELITHICAL STAGES
ABIDED WITH THE GODS IN SPACES OF YORE
AND SOARED AS ETHEREAL BEING'S WITH WINGS OF ETHER
DONNED SUITS OF ROBOTIC CLOAKS OF ARMOUR
SURVIVED ELECTRICAL BARRAGES OF PERSECUTING CONTROL
DELVED IN SUBTERRANEAN HEWED CAVERNOUS CHAMBERS
AS ASTUTE EGOISTICAL TERRIFIED SCIOPHOBICAL MORTALS
TRUDGED VAST GLACIAL AND TURBULENT TORRID MORIBUND PLACES
COPULATED WITH ABORIGINAL NATURED SOULS
ROMPED WITH FREE ABANDON O'ER ALPINE HEIGHTS
THOUGHT POSTULATED, THOUGHT MADE ALL POSSIBLE
LONG BEFORE THIS WORLD WAS CREATED, I WAS.
Neptune must have used as parchment
Mother-of-pearl to inscribe his laws
For he’d richly rewarded the oysters
With an oceanic spa.
So, while seeking calm through deliberation
And enjoying the mud bubbles of my bath
Who should I spy in the distance?
But Calamity trudging up the path.
His foot arched out proud and haughty
Like the neck of a noble steed
As he pulled his crustaceous carriage
At a break-neck snail speed.
The mud began to feel like mortar
As I stonily watched him draw near
That audacious, contemptuous clam
Made my heart cry out with fear.
He passed by slow and haughty
Like an imperious, dismissive sigh
But as my tension began to dissipate
He kicked a mudball at my eye.
I watched warily, his insolent passage
Until he was but a tiny speck of dirt
Knowing I'd formed another pearl of wisdom,
From that impetuous, narcissistic squirt.
I can't be angry anymore.
Through waves of emotions
you have buried me beneath the sand
Weighted, I feel nothing but
tiny bites of crustaceous vermin
Dear sky, you promised me sun today
now I'm waist-deep in storm puddles
As the tide comes rolling in
the last fateful second brings hope
But receding waters will go
and leave me deserted here again
only to dig down a little deeper
Bloodied in my sandy seclusion
every glassy grain cuts diamond sharp
This sadness cannot surpass my pride
so here I'll wait for calmer waters
Rather retreat to dunes of harbor
let my heart go cold and wrinkled
just waiting for the storm to pass
or be swallowed into my earthy abyss.