PARANORMAL
Zeny
Yokel
Xeno
Wizard, Woolley headed
Voodoo, Vagabond
Unicorn
Tyrant
Stupid, Surreal
Robot
Quirk
Pygmy, Pixy, Polygamy
Oberon
Narcissus, Narcotic, Nancy, Nightmare
Monster, Mermaid, Micky- Minnie
Logy, Loony, Lunatic
Kiekshaws, Kalki, Kibosh
Jack Frost, Jaunty, Jekyll and Hide
Idiot, Insane
Halloween, Hermaphrodite, Hyper, Hell
Ghost, Grumpy, Genome
Fairy, Frankenstein
Eden, El dorando, Electra
Dragon, Drug addict, Dwarf
Cupid, Club footed, Crazy
Belial, Bi sexual,
Abracadabra, Albino, Angel, Anima, Animus
12/27/21
' PARANORMAL
Contest by Robert James Ligouri
ZZ Snore, Snore, ZZ
Written: by Tom
9-6-2019
Night’s sleep was scanty,
today I’m logy and slow.
Forgetting pharmaceuticals,
caused tossing to and fro.
Today my song,
won’t be a mellifluous sound.
But I’ll be pedantic,
until my sleep clocks rewound.
I’m apt to be loquacious,
during sleep once again.
While a good power nap,
might mollify my pain.
Shadow, shadow, shadow
I go to the streets and I see
shadows in big numbers
upcountry shadows I see
shadow crying for shadows
shadow chasing shadows
shadow fight other shadows
shadow cheating shadows
shadow abusing shadows
shadow deceiving shadows
This is the secret life lived
a life of shadows and signs
not a single soul aware
of shadow chasing boom
shadow activities boom
shadow enterprises on show
I want to announce here as in sleep
everything done in this world
all you see are in reality, hidden
unreal realities parked with lies
framed up lies dressed in black suits
Smart and beautiful shadows smiling
beckon all to believe shadow-logy
Deject jejune muck
Underarm hollow tax cows
Nods lone land per hoof
Grasshopper a widower
Yelps fable ape logy bog
Freaks in costumes,
Guised under normalcy
Amongst their own--
Making peacocks to
Appear as paupers--
Disheveled & unrivaled
In this world of their own.
Smoke escapes plasticity;
Drenched with green
Up against the night sky
Out against the city's contour.
Escaping as time
Once escaped with
Their noble youth.
Time surely aged them--
That vile vandal,
The one poets scorn..
Surely she would take
As she can accord;
But then, is it
Not man that leads a romp?
If time is the dance
Then fun is the tune.
Cascading the masquerade
Transcending any law--
Of logy memory.
One must make query:
What dreams await death's bed
So why clinical psychology?
What does that mean, anyway?
What is non-clinical psychology?
Does it mean analytical psychology,
which might mean analogical?
Which would mean ecological?
Which is really just plain logical?
So is it logical psycho-logic,
and wouldn't that be sort of redundant
because doesn't psycho-logy mean psycho-logic
and dissonant dislogic
neurosystemic win/win gratitude
through lose/lose despairing attitude?
So maybe clinical psychology is neuro consciousness
and unconsciousness
and subconsciousness
psycho-logic?
Which might mean the psychologics of healthy wokeness?
But, if this is a science
then the logic of a psychic paradigm
can be no better or worse,
I suppose,
than the rationality of the scientist?
So, does clinical psychology refer to a logical neuro-science
of positive consciousness
and negative unconsciousness?
And, if so, then why would anyone assume this could be systemically dissonant with ecological healthy
and economically unhealthy Earth-consciousness?
Why not ecological dynamics of our Interior Landscape?
Clinical psychology as deep listening
for ecological compassion
and inhumane capitalistic dispassion.
Curiosity is at work on Mars
Handful of food on earth in search.
Android ultra-modernism in heart and mind
No logy progress for the lagged behind.
Dengue hit Bengal: forget death, only
Instigating political controversy.
Me, my, mine, myself and I
A need for looking at the open sky.
Nocturnal pleasure dims
Day's bright light; it seems
Absconded optimism in chase...
Labyrinth of human darkness!
In Science...
...Chemistry....
......Physics.....
......Biology.....
...try....sics...logy...
....before.... and...... after.....
......nothing.......
.....non.....
....else Xxcept God
Desert air so sweet, so dear
Standing in the radiance of the sand
Glistening in the sun
Traveling through barren lands
Visiting forgotten people
Transfixed in turquoise stain-glass steeples
Venturing in the arms of desert creatures
Sun drenched in desert wonder
With skin the color copper
Following the footsteps of my people
I stop to listen to the crowing of the dawn.
January
February
Sitting atop a frozen world
In this igloo house
Hovered o’er by Gods
Of ice and snow
In their awful grey vault of heaven!
Some Jupiter’s joke up there
Has turned things upside down
Somewhere above the roiling roof
Lay a land of spice and fruit
Mind reaching out
Logy along the vein
Tastes the unpeeled
Plumb of paradise
One short minute’s warmth
But then
Back down again
January
February
This igloo house
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