catacombs of fear
lost in my own illusion
a downward spiral
Categories:
downward, anxiety, confusion, fear, lost,
Form: Senryu
Can I bum light from you brother? Many thanks I reckon I'll be on my way I got a lot of ground left to cover and not enough time in the day. I've been drinking strychnine baby I hope you I watched the tires burn just so I can inhale the smoke. It's the kind of hunger I pray you'll never come to know, because when you feel your flesh it's hunger only grows. I've got a sunny disposition, crippling drug addiction finance my miles with a silver tongue and a toothless smile. Headed downhill so I think I'll Coast picking up some speed cuz that's just what I need. Laying here fighting my sleep, mountains of stress lay in front of me. Nothing ever ends poetically, it just ends and we turn it into poetry. All the blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.
Categories:
downward, addiction, anxiety, art, death,
Form: Free verse
In these days there is no light
Evil stalks within the night,
Seeking those it will devour;
Hearts are darkened by the hour.
Babes are born and toddlers play
While parents rage against the day;
No money left to pay the rent,
Desperate times will not relent.
Descending into thievery
Requires no great bravery,
Just a mask and just a gun
Then you learn to cut and run.
Into a homeless camp you go,
The biggest dog runs the show;
Now you're king of your domain,
All the minions know your name.
In dark days
All joy decays;
There is no try,
There is only do or die!
Categories:
downward, corruption,
Form: Couplet
Birth to death is a downward slide
Notice the signs every day
My luscious hair is thinning rapidly
Muscles are starting to decay
Eyesight's caused me to wear by-focals
My back's in perpetual pain
Haven't had to use one of those walkers
Don't have use of my brain
On the bright side still alive and kicking
Though high as I once did
Keep exercising and eating sensibly
Gonna try to stop my skid
Got a few years left in this body
Making best of the time I've left
Spreading cheer with my silly old rhymes
Till my bod's laid to rest
Phew!
Categories:
downward, age,
Form: Rhyme
Everything's caving
life's downward spiral occurs
life's unplanned events
Categories:
downward, life,
Form: Senryu
THE SUN BEATS ITS DOWNWARD GAZE
The sun beats its downward gaze
Onto a spread-out garden,
Shimmering among the arrayed blossom,
With sultrily humid, sweat-inducing rays,
To break up the encrusted ground.
A resurrected form unbinds itself
From winter's hardening strictures,
Uncracks the crowded confines
In a stretched, yielding chrysalis
To emerge pristine of shape and hue
Into the burgeoning brightness
Of a gold-gleaming dawn.
Such is the harbinger
Of pleasure, tempered with ease,
Unhurried by the current of time,
And restful as an infant at sleep.
Yet rising from slumber,
Like a phoenix but gradually, in its way,
Not wasting effort or energy,
White-feathered wings grown out from
Broad, strong shoulders.
I watch it become what it always was,
Ready to claim its right to the skies,
Blue, unclouded, sweltering.
The summer's day melts into
A forgetful haze of meaning,
Of no need for answers.
The answer lies in nature's glory,
Matching it in every regard,
In tune with the seasons,
Where the cycle of life, death
And regeneration never breaks.
Categories:
downward, day, garden, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
GOOD
Virtuous…Forthright
Serving…Praying…Loving
Saint…Paragon…Murderer…Liar
Slithering…Salivating…Hating
Slanderous…Sneaky
EVIL
8/8/2022
Categories:
downward, america,
Form: Diamante
The fog murks its way in front of me
daylight fades into a lurid glow.
I drift loose as stones lost in my mind
hanging on to sanity by a fragile thread.
There’s a hunger within me that won’t abate
to fix my personal planet to a fiery star,
ride its path around the universe
along with other constellations
lighting luminous lamps burning the darkness.
Through an astrological lens, I pierce
the sliver of a half-moon gleaming beside my star
prods me to relinquish a pervasive sense
of hopelessness creeping into deep pools
of sadness, losing myself totally
and I am left with nothing
but a mere whisper of dust.
I latch on instead to the tail of a comet
hoping to land myself into a glorious sunset
but it speeds us through space
plunging me on a downward spiral
toward a stygian oblivion.
@jjote 022121
Categories:
downward, angst, dark, sad,
Form: Free verse
The downward path of the dragon
Woe the bad luck
And the break-ups
Beware, it always leads to death
Categories:
downward, break up, death,
Form: Free verse
round and round it comes down,
white small stars of delight,
cool tongue as it alights
brisk light crystalline gown
12/6/2020
Categories:
downward, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Enableability taken away
in an instant, the way it was granted.
If we be a conduit, we should not sway,
there being no ego to be flaunted,
with no narrow thoughts, feeble and slanted.
We being oriented for expansion
are thus disconcerted by contraction.
However, it is the ego upset
having lost reason for celebration,
since pristine presence always stands erect.
11-November-2020
Categories:
downward, introspection,
Form: Dizain
Gleeful happy joyful jubilantly wonderful exciting times
Unknowing about pandemics, upbeat feeling climbs.
Two-thousand-twenty sobering, history unprecedented.
Wishing China bat-eating fetish never invented.
Family laughter disappeared suddenly January weekend.
Hugging, kissing, contacting, unacceptable, distance recommend.
Turning USA upside downward, Covid-19 virus, dreadfully awful.
Society unbelievably vulnerable, saving family ultimate waffle.
Willingly educated medically, socially emotionally, mostly ready.
Epidemiologists attempt delivering materials timely, steady.
Many seeking antiquated untimely methods, yearning nostalgically.
Brilliant refreshingly, newfangled ideas prancing forward magically.
Answers forthcoming furiously, quickly, distrust poisoning recipe.
Many wishing timekeeper resetting calendar daybreak hippie.
Gleeful happy joyful jubilant wonderful exciting times
Unknowing about pandemic, upbeat feeling climbs.
Categories:
downward, usa,
Form: Rhyme
It started
gradually.
One drink
turns into two.
An alcoholic
on the mend
falls off
the wagon;
lulled by
temptation
bit by bit.
It's a slow descent
into catastrophe.
A
steep downward spiral.
(Yalto)
Spiral Poetry Contest (Winner: 3rd Place)
Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann
Date written: 06/13/2020
"Yalto" is a form invented by yours truly
Lines 1-15: 3,4,2,4,5,3,2,3,2,3,3,5,6,1,5 syllables
Categories:
downward, abuse, addiction, drink, fate,
Form: Verse
upbeat thoughts
dancing in my head
have given way
to clouds menacing
cluttering my brain
wish I could believe
a few sunrays
could melt away the ice
built up 'round my heart
never again sliding down
the old unfathomable abyss
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Posted on March 17, 2019
Categories:
downward, angst, dark, heart, hope,
Form: Free verse
trust
loyalty
betrayal
twisted crippling
spin
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
posted on March 9, 2019
Categories:
downward, angst, betrayal, grief, hurt,
Form: Lanterne
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