Compassion for the Recidivist by squibblyquill, literature
Literature
Compassion for the Recidivist
Truly, he was my kryptonite.
His strange and wonderful presence
Tapped into a vein, a crack in my citadel
That went all the way down
Into the muddled heart of me.
I can forgive me for being helplessly drawn to him
Again and again.
I know how it happened.
He says “hop on”,
and I obey -
I slide my hands
into his pockets
and anticipate speed.
We climb up the
valley wall,
the beauty overwhelms,
as if for the first time
I’ve seen this space -
Dreamscapes surround us
as we blur through the country.
Some ancient chemical switch
clicks off inside
and I gaze at the sun drenched
leaves and forest flowers.
We disappear into the shade,
as the forest opens up
her deep verdant heart.
And I continue to sit in chaotic flight
smothered by a God-smock,
painted by every colour
ever known -
and I exhale all my
yesterdays and tomorrows
away,
I am thoroughly
renewed.
The old shoes, the lost shoes by oviedomedina, literature
Literature
The old shoes, the lost shoes
But she still
keeps that useless china
from decades before
from those trips to all the whatevers of the world
that nobody cares about
and pales even if the smallest crack
pops up
after the clean ups
all of that
she still does
but she blinks nothing
when it comes
to trashbining others´
everything:
the few happy memories
contained
in old toys,
the prides of reaching
for whatever wisdom
in any old book or photocopy,
the unassuming humility and prudence
contained
in the worn out shoes
that were,
as the poet goes,
as loved as the city that fathered you.
As unthinking as
buying new shoes
forcing him
to wear the new shoes
taking the ol
someone rapped on the window
in the evening
it was a star and it was bleeding
and it brough some strange parcel
with a note:
„Mandrake and an armoured elephant, for You.“
- Samuel Rosenstock
after which there were fireworks in the bedroom
and that’s how the dreams are born, if I’m right.
liquefying vessels in a worldpool by Ladnavar, literature
Literature
liquefying vessels in a worldpool
like potatoes, softly melting in the pot
their skin and meat now brush against the rock
gently - barely tickling it at all, while
the foolhardy young noodle tries to tie itself a knot
around the firm and stony giant; blind
it cannot feel its wobbly limb, dancing in the rain of torn organic parts
shrooms mushed, I see their juices seep into the current, and the dust of herbs
becomes a thin veil, like an asteroid belt, or the milky way itself
going round and round, and up and down, inside this greater vessel known as the worldpool
but to whose will do we all cook?.. where in this torrid storm can I find his or her taste
their aroma, where d
i drew my heart with dry erase marker by PatchworkLynx, literature
Literature
i drew my heart with dry erase marker
i drew my heart with dry erase marker
(wet red curvature inking it sharper)
soil sand earth glass
the boards we use for graphs in economics class.
Gold and blood(both dirty and clean)
circulate hungry and far between
they follow their guilty they point their blame
water honey roses flame
teacher laughed(but history read
that in the long run we're all dead
earth glass soil sand)
burn our coal and sell the land
block by day and book by page
i grin your glee i wreck your rage
cloud by sky and star by night
my heart it often sleeps in spite
drawings washed off permanent
grinned their mess and did their stint
(breathe wait soap and then)they