The lies surround us
Seeping into our skin like water
Uncontainable
Unstoppable
Unattainable
The words spoken, once silent
Now decayed in our hearts
Intangible
Insidious
Indefatigable
The orderly mind now deceased
Ruled by passion, and anger, and hate
Mutable
Dilutable
Corruptible
Floodgates open wide
Pouring the fire of rage into our souls
Mindless
Thoughtless
Kindless
Logic is a casualty in their war.
Categories:
kindless, america, betrayal, change, corruption,
Form: Free verse
A Man of Green
(Valentine’s Day)
Blast breathed, bob booted, fiercely tramping, he sweeps down upon the land, hard browed, frozen white, bellowing,
Rude Boreas, the prince of winter, rages, the very rocks withering in his path, his power ultimate, the cold of Satan his liege lord, spent upon the hapless world, in frigid swales, twixt tortured trees, in winter’s scraggle,
midst hilltops bleak, whose hoary frames becrack an icy, kindless sky,
His profound frost’s depth hints that light could lose.
Mortals shudder, birds enclose themselves, becoming smaller still.
All pray this prince shall soon pass.
In earnest fright we take small, guileful hope in his raving’s crystalline wake.
Yet, ‘neath his glacial countenance,
the rime bedecked adamantine glaze,
the polar beard, there glints a hope of green,
A brownish earthen smudge warms at alabaster nape.
Perchance brightening Boreas’ stern eye’s crystal spark of winter,
there now gladly grows a fleck of Sol.
Categories:
kindless, valentines day,
Form: Blank verse
Before the hemoglobin rushes in parting life from life
empty abdomens swirl from the dust. Born to die,
their parasitical humor is a terror in the ear.
Blood from wine in the vein, drawn past
the epidermal sanctity of a crimson relic.
Swiftly they fly about seeking that aching moment.
With tourniquet wings buzzing set in veneration
about their host.
And for a brief moment they seem holy
enough to not need to mend their religion
and carry out these kindless proverbs.
But then falling from grace so gently
they descend down touching lightly
with the bent legs of a sinner needing redemption.
Nathan Martin 2010
Categories:
kindless, analogy, christian, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse