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flowers springing up
before insects at their peak
smelling salts of sorts
to revive us of Winter
before dandelion seeds
3/9/2022
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Categories:
salts, flower, spring,
Form: Tanka
Hail, oh hypoactive attention deficit,
With a brain that's raveled in tumbleweed,
Inundate thy mind with alchemical medicine,
To satisfy thy folly's focus dressed in tweed.
Suck the soma from these amphetamines,
Which waken your wary thoughts,
Add a mix of dimethyltriptamine,
And in the senses thou shall be caught.
Light becomes a lucid liquid,
A river of retinal inquisition,
And for the cognizantly gifted,
A litany of lack in controlled contrition.
Sound is but a moving matter,
That meanders in the rings,
On your head which absords that chatter,
Of what the plasma sings.
Taste is touch and touch is smell,
And all are in your seventh chakra,
An eye inscribed in the Book of Kells,
Which binds below to your basal sacrum.
Now grind the gears of the mental cogs,
Which spring forth from shaken action,
Taken from the growing fog,
Of your addiction's satisfaction.
Categories:
salts, addiction, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
In your grasp I wonder my sanity
Complete with fear of loneliness I feel
I brush with the salts of insanity
She doesn’t make it easy, I’m a heel
Complete with fear of loneliness I feel
A deep depression might come over me
She doesn’t make it easy, I’m a heel
You try to comfort but it comes empty
A deep depression might come over me
Nothing in your voice allows any joy
You try to comfort but it comes empty
I can’t imagine a life to enjoy
Nothing in your voice allows any joy
I brush with the salts of insanity
I can’t imagine a life to enjoy
In your grasp I wonder my sanity
Russell Sivey
Categories:
salts, life, loss, voice, depression,
Form: Pantoum
Since the day you were born
i woke up smiling every morn
to pick you up , play with you and sometimes fall asleep infront of you favorate tv show
no we had no idea what the future holds
the laughter and the tears, all at the same time
fun and joy, you were my only sibling
my best friend
you were all i had
not one day have i treated you bad in anyway
yes, there were days when you were mad
sometimes you threw me with things
but you were the baby
you still are
i sit and think of you... trying not to see all that as only a memory
the pain i feel in my heart is unexplainable
tears streaming down my face
as i miss you dearly
a month has passed and i haven’t seen your face
people gossip and ask questions i don’t know answers to
the stories i hear from people i thought cared
I’m in total disgrace
missing....
where can you be
missing...
we tried all we could
salts of pain are all i have
salts of pain on my pillow case
weeping...day by day
still i don’t see a way
hope i find in my salts of pain
light i see in my salts of pain
never will i stop till you are home where you belong
salts of pain healing my heart
salts of pain i can't believe we are apart
Categories:
salts, life, day, pain, day,
Form: Acrostic
There once was a guy who was crazy
Took bath salts to make him not lazy
Bad trip to say the least
Human flesh was a feast
Dead carcass was pushin' up daises
Categories:
salts, death, fear, loss, people,
Form: Limerick