Self Consciously Poems - Poems about Self Consciously

1am

...It’s one in the morning.
I zoomed into Lisa’s room
and threw myself on the bed where she lay reading
in a near virtuoso, Fosbury flop.
She bounced, jostled by my mechanical bed wave.
“I hate goo...

Lunch is a Knife’s Edge

...
The avocado’s belly-heavy body
splits clean, revealing its seed, polished
like a child’s marble, or the tooth
I left under my pillow
before I learned what parents keep.

The flesh, yellow-gre...

spaghetti

...I dreamed my way here
I’ve had my cringe moments
I feel pressure, I lose perspective
I’ve wholeheartedly failed
I misspeak, underthink, overreact
I try to do the right thing
the right thing isn...

Monday Off

...It’s a holiday weekend, all of the ‘fellows’ have Monday off.
At lunch Wednesday, Lisa said, “We need a throw-down.” 
So, we made some invites and started spreading word around. 
“You know, we all...

Gathering In the Jettisoned

...Dimmed Eyes crack their shells first.
You rise up in the half light of a fading moment.

This is the plane – wait, tie a rope
hitch it to a trading places moment.

When you passed away
leaving...

No

...Most of the girls (Anna, Sophy, Sunny, Bili, Leong and Lisa) are in the kitchen eating breakfast. “Where’s Anais?” Sunny asks, spooning some eggs onto her plate and taking 4 strips of bacon.

“She’...

The God Reset

...The God Reset

All Hail the mega-Temple brokers!
The Heavenly stock sellers
Chomping at the bit
Who parade in their Gucci suits
Escorting you comfortably
(like Kings)
Into “the Kingdom”come.
...

Something About Your Eyes

...There is something in your eyes
That seduces my inner self consciously;
They set my soul free to fly,
And leave my body alive surprisingly.

My heart falls into your eternal trap
Love me good a...

Family Portrait

...Family Portrait

Do you see
It's nineteen seventy
on the pier in Dún Laoghaire 
We self-consciously facing his camera
his rasping plastic camera
And us together with 
smiles scattered by blin...

Over Stimulation

...Lights catch random particles, drawing attention to the eye. Heart beats out of rythm. Smoke clouds magically appear as thoughts bluntly dissipate. Into thin air goes the brain, gliding down memory l...

Follow the Nutrient Stream

...Regenerating light
reiterating bright as dual dark
fertile shadowing sighted polypathic light
when notnot night.

Healthy sight
as notnot dissonating blight.

Languaged cognition, thought, be...

Brenda and Banron

...
Brenda and Banron bounced slowly on his boat
as the brilliant sun sparkled brightly on the glistening water.
Big and burly he was the boy she sought after in her book.
She smiled bra...

Angelic Imperfection

...Late for the Nativity
I stand among the throng
Self-consciously
Singing with the angels 
Quietly
Sensing the future
Yearning out
In front of me
Revealed 
Symbolically
How it will 
Always b...

Silver Tears

...SILVER TEARS

You say that you have long since
turned off all the lights but one,
the light beneath which
I have kissed you
while pearly dew glittered
all around us,
a breeze was blowing,
an...

Celebrating Peace In Solitude - Collaboration With Sandra Stefanowich

...Christmas day... 
scents from your chimney waft my way
curtains aside, a dozen cars are dusted by snow
boys in your yard cry out while pitching snowballs
sensing both comfort and sadness
...

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