INTO AN ENDLESS AND SINGLE DAY
Uninterrupted torment,
for the unfortunate ones,
like me,
to suffer as always,
the craving is so strong,
consistently,
trying to find us an explainable excuse to submit,
constantly giving us shakes and stress,
continually without giving up,
makes us sweat,
cause we are eternally addicted.
forever.
An everlasting torment,
for all time to come,
invariably,
we succumb to it,
as usual, we go into perpetual oblivion,
we keep repeating the same mistake,
over and over again,
because we are weak,
we are human beings,
unceasing our addiction,
which we acquired innocently or purposely,
without exception,
the power of the craving stays with us.
Categories:
perpetuum, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Shrinking time down
to a factor of one
The future and past
cancel out zero-sum
The moment, this instant
the only thing real
Unmasking the present
—nothing left to conceal
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: April, 2021)
Categories:
perpetuum, time,
Form: Rhyme
All of my life,
living for today
All of tomorrow,
living for tomorrow
None of my life,
living for yesterday
Lived as today
—as today was tomorrow
(Reading ‘The Portable Einstein,’ September, 2020)
“Today was tomorrow
—to all of yesterday”
Categories:
perpetuum, time,
Form: Rhyme
Life as Perpetuum Mobile,
It goes without slowing down.
It's a pity there's no allowance for it,
And we're just living, going through it.
My actions can tell
About who I really am,
But you can't find out everything about me,
I'll surprise you, that's the beauty of it.
There is no point in shouting, life is deaf to us,
It just goes to the intended goal.
And I see no sin in her insensibility,
After all, we always wanted her movement.
Nothing is easy for us in life,
And we pay for everything good with interest.
All that matters is whether your heart is beating well,
And it is very scary not to hear it fight.
I understand that we are all different
And we are all in a hurry to live faster,
But I am what life has made me,
No better or worse than other people.
And life is not a field to live.,
And we must accept this in silence.
We need to try all the ways in life,
Until the fatal blight came.
Categories:
perpetuum, humanity, lost, pain, peace,
Form: Free verse
PERPETUUM MOBILE
I must go down to the pigging shops again
To Morrison, Tesco, Aldi or maybe Lidl
For I Just went there for the sodding milk in vain
How could I forget! it really is a riddle
To me, though to my wife it’s clear as day
It’s because my age is already well past middle
And the senior moments frequently make play
When I get there, wonder why, and so head back
Starting endless cycle - perpetuum mobile
Could it be I’ve found an answer to energy lack?
Send old geezers to the shops - instructions to buy
Tie to National Grid their unending there-and-back
We could call it ‘renewable’, answering Greeny cry
With old codgers in perennial supply.
22 April 2019
Categories:
perpetuum, humor,
Form: Terza Rima
self portraits
landscapes
in the plein air
fragments
figures
imagery
measures
of the dance
games
of dexterity
in
formal
design
a lyrical
parable
recognisable
rewaking
the
existential
in a simple
exercise
of
blind
adoration
FP tribute WCW poems Breugel
Categories:
perpetuum, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
This drop of water,
in the shower where I sit,
slowly ripples miniature
waves of lukewarm water,
wrinkles in lives.
Folds in time, in minds,
in the hearts of everyone
involved.
Pain thrown out,
like screech of owls
into the night.
Hunger screamed
of love, of being loved.
How the arms of many
in warmth embrace.
How silence exists,
that removes cold,
and brings life from many
to many.
***
April 4, 2017
Copyright © Darren White
Categories:
perpetuum, abuse, allusion, body, emotions,
Form: Free verse