How Huxley Sees the World
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"How Huxley Sees the World"
He composes his world -
dream extractions
simulated from
the surreal reality of man
colour cognitive from the dead moments
we phantomise to ...
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Categories:
paten, art, future, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Strange Case of Ft
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"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
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Categories:
paten, dark, horror, poets,
Form: Narrative
Let It Be Told
...Visions and dreams
what does it mean
I'm open hearted I'm open hearted;
just getting started;
with the truth of this world;
let it be told;
post the bail;
land in jail;
what's for sale;
does...
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Categories:
paten, adventure, allegory, blessing, celebration,
Form: Ballad
Oxygen Tent
...May the Lord please circumvent.
My new abode, an oxygen tent.
Of course, I won't pay any rent.
Illusions going heaven sent.
Manifest a daily toast.
Inhaling just a legal dose.
Believing its jus...
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Categories:
paten, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Silhouettes On the Stage 1953
...Lying still on the class room floor,
brown paper for a bottom sheet.
All the children were gathered round
and my outline was complete.
A cookie cutter girl was I
in bright black paten leather shoes;...
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Categories:
paten, childhood, death, history, waraugust,
Form: Quatrain
Da's Girl
...Ringleted and pink cheeked, the girl child sat,
Upon the bench next to her Da and his cronies.
The Goliaths munched greasy burgers and string fries.
Dirt smudged her upturned face.
Like the remna...
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Categories:
paten, devotion
Form: Free verse