Long Iteration Poems

How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.

An enchantress and a minor goddess
in ancient Greek mythology and religion
depicted...

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Botched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...

tonight October  25th, 2022 
terrifically summarily requoting 

poetic outdated iteration,
I share the following lines
echoing in the valley 
of love and delight.
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
October twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty two
admirable,...

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My physical self is pitiful

I have been incapacitated since an early age

Inadequate in every regard

My body is a useless shell

Luckily, this place is beyond basic physicalities

This place transcends the grim and darkness of reality

This place...

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Sy Roth - 3 Poems
12/17/20130 Comments
 
Picture
Silence

I’ve dreamt often that she crept deep
Into my cellular structure, 
Some time in the nightfall of my being
And planted deeply into my mitochondrion,
A magical silence pill,
Drowning the kittens of...

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I failed in love
the  very first   time
Held it so briefly ...
it felt like a 
	heart-melting,
virgin kiss snowflake
Made a promise to myself,
not to repeat the same mistake

Took a second glance 
at a possible...

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He never came back, no one ever did,
she was trapped inside with all that she knew,
no more information came to her now,
but he’d programmed her to know what do to,
and to her father Alex would...

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All of a sudden, or not at all.

Love does not roll in with the tide.
Love is calculated, and random.
A steady roller coaster best strap in for the ride.
There is no cushion for the fall from...

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These leopard eyes warily see
another crimson dawn
on the cold concrete Serengeti

A scarlet sun
shaped like the barrel of a gun
Dark plume of heat
triggers the survival instinct scatter

Watch the bulls-eye prey run
Where to in the confusion?
It doesn’t...

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it glistens …
can you see?
do you see that little drop -
the tiny streak that
writes your name upon my visage -
that etches it’s damp and
dour reality onto what the mirror
shines back at me each day?
do you...

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Life’s Timeless Driftwood

Peering back at the shadow stretching,
continuance knows well the peaceful silhouettes from horizon's light,
ancestral sequences having frequented one’s shore many times.

All is as it has been.

One’s longevity holds firm,
like isolated fingers protruding in...

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Roman capital punishment,
crucifixion morphed into 
another raised gravity depravity
Guillotine justice dropping down — 
off with the heads of the enemy!
Sleepy Hollow gangsters Herod-ing into town
Time pendulum swinging ... 
death sentence methods changing again
Face the firing...

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Face Maps 

How often we ponder 
The portrait of life, 
Some without a face, 
Some with but war as a canvas. 

The experienced face 
Reveals folds above eyes, 
Disengaged as a draught-laden wilderness, 
Yet reliable...

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(with nudity optional)




Not another effort from "The Left"s bleating masses, but the sparkily aristocracy of cerebral-celebritys; their binary-duality sweeping earth-wise. 

I don't object to the subject necessarily. All Hell Breaks-Loose sometimes For Heaven's Sake too....

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Assumption begot,
     that cumulative generations
     bred tiredness weariness zap
ping ability to remain awake,

     nope even enough energy
     to feign...

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Bubble-Itch
           By Odin Roark

Like a wheel of endless births
Our personal bubble rolls and undulates
From first breath to death
Through meditations of desire
Shopping malls and jails
Farms
Caves
Rotten downtowns
Penthouse...

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If Aprils bumbling cheerfulness won't keep me going,
it must be the sun, 
or the bees or the trees 
and their sloping branches, willowy flowers.

No, it's a plaintive push,
from the bed to the desk.
Write, write, write.
Why...

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"Reification" has it that biologically-intrinsic "Morality" understood as a-priori to Perception makes "Religion" a "Collective" or "Shared" Psychological experience.

CHAT GPT says:

Put it this way: ~ God = the unpatterned, unnameable origin of all value =...

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How to rid myself of addiction
Let it run to the cross soiled
Here on the 1st station of the cross
Feel the self-hate go to its fate
Carry my new wood proudly

Condemned to crucifixion
I nail the addict while...

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Out of Tears of deep blue pain
(Ratri says)

The Sky is full of dark, black clouds.
Some days are for dreaming
A true day for spicy puffed rice.
A true day for a sleep under the quilt
Or,
A day for...

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Life is a day that starts with the glimmers and glows of sun.
Those colours become brighter, progressing like when you first learned to run.
The hours pass ‘till the morning just like the years before you...

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In a world of festivities, we prioritize the frivolous,
Elevating Valentine's Day, a celebration quite dubious.

February 14th, a day assigned to love's display,
Yet, I refute this notion, for love should be everyday.

In my culture, this celebration...

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Scattered Ash
         by Odin Roark

The urn is tipped
Scattered ash enjoins
Jetstream
Jetsam
Flotsam
Atop the winds and currents
Nature's gathering
Knowing not yet
The next evolution of life's decay

Possibility awakens
This consciousness beyond our own
This...

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Love diffusion,
Love recursion.

Disobedient to the external world we remain, 
  Never expedient - our love - never going to detain, 

The more memories we obtain, 
   More sweetness we gain. 

Surrounded by...

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Darkness, shadows, raining, storming.

I liked to pretend I perfectly crafted these bleak, tired ideas.

When I was a stupid kid.

As if no one has ever drawn a picture in pencil, so that there is no color.

As...

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SONNET FOR ALL CREATURES

Oh! No! No all things are not bright and beautiful
There is a darker aspect to creation
Must it be ever so in this holy alchemist’s crucible?
At least for the span of current iteration...

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