The Mental Abyss

Collecting the Demons and Monsters From Under the Bed and Putting Them On Display My Book - The Slight Ramblings of a Madly sane Man

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hello, fellow travelers.

i have a poetry prompt for you:

the spirit world

reblog with your original poetry.

have a good early October everyone.

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a land alight blue spin stream

glow, this you and

ghostie twist like ampersand

traveler darken fellow float the sway

flow, this you and

off road soul can't, we understand

raise a hackle cat! back black and broom

slow, this you and

wind winding dead leaves banned

death's eyes our early october only

low, this you and

say spirit world, take my hand

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They touched beyond the flesh.

Sternum planted next to scapula.

Vertebrae-breath wheezing

through the manicured lawn and fake

flowers

in the Garden;

where ectoplasm flows serenly in

nourishing streams, and on the ethereal banks,

they hold hands and dance

forever beneath the emerald everglow.

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It Dawns

Gossamer threads spun through

bones scraping sky, pierce the night

with silver scarves for drag queen trees

changing colors to make a display, a damned

demonstration of the true soul.

              For the nova dance -

Nothing new, the same brilliant explosion

has expanded the universe for millenia.

          So, we dance in the spray of dust

       coating tongue and lungs;

           a prism for the dimming light.

Beneath the ever rising chromatic cloud

      put your hand in mine, and

feel the surg of blood

      rising with the tide.

It's drawn by the very silver eye,

The Witness. Of the consummation of a

union

as stark, as necessary as day in night.

Pregnant, spider-light woven

widow-making connection,

of the static spark between fingers

scraping sky, piercing night

Wrapped together in our silver scarves

dancing among the black birds whirling

out of the tall grass where the candle-light-

lightning bugs float and buzz

and our bones touch create bliss

an explosion

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Echo Chamber

I've listened to your litanies for eons;

dogmas and diatribes

against the vulnerable.

And, as I retreat deeper into myself -

introversion from now on,

a kind of conversion,

but with some catharsis

rather than a crisis

of identifying this body.

And, the trauma of smelling death.

I've found solace.

Beneath the slatted beams

where thick marrow forms insulation

from the cold inside, and through

the steepled chambers

hallowed prayer beats

staccato in the hollow halls.

Faithless cacophonies peel off the tolling bell

resurrecting wraiths with a single ring

whose voices burn with something

Unimaginable; liturgies

for the selfish sacrifice...

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It Dawns

Gossamer threads spun through

the bones scraping sky, pierce the night

with silver scarves for drag queen trees

changing colors to make a display, a damned

demonstration of the true soul.

              For the nova dance -

Nothing new, the same brilliant explosion

has expanded the universe for millenia.

          Dance in the spray of dust

       coating tongue and lungs;

           a prism for the dimming light.

Beneath the ever rising chromatic cloud

      put your hand in mine,

feel the surg of blood

      rising with the tide

drawn by the very silver eye

witnessing the consummation of a union

as stark, necessary as day in night.

Pregnant, spider-light woven

widow-making connection,

of the static spark between fingers

scraping sky, piercing night

Wrapped together in our silver scarves.

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The flowers of your fingers petal

the skin around my neck;

fold in on themselves and unfurl

as a star ignites

scorching the flesh.

Elysium erupts through every cell,

the pure pleasure in an untamed garden

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I came in from the cold floating

above the floor, smoke billowing

in my lungs

a fog curling around my eyes.

An enterprise of longing listing

my gait.

All because you constantly make

me wait -

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