Part One: The Lining
I once thought that if I believed enough – with no doubt inside me
The elements of life begin within me
and genocide is my birth child
shifting and changing tectonically
I am not cognition – am not put to a vote
I believe that navigating life with a smile on your face is
a destiny – standing next to us
pulling teeth from the hairy toenail soup
In sacred dirt we are
down inside nature – a harvest of supple fruit
Secret love – breathing veneration and carnal cycles
The adventure – coursing through driven eyes driving feet to the peak – The
naked ambition birthed
There must be a way to – let go
let the natural course be sailed! Oh navigator navigator
it takes two in the shadow of the elm
This is our remedy to a psychology of monotony
I feel your being – we are dancing and interconnecting
We are inside each other
never one thing without another – the
combination – two hands bond to form one
desire – for a spark to become a flame
A machine comprised of many – turning forward
the bow of the boat – showing the water the way to dry land
and all the ships in the sea will yearn
for the two-way water-way that weeps wishes
So we say – so we do – so we are – so we could be… anything
Could love – lust – abstain – self-please – subserve – dominate
or war for your love – or love war – or neutralize
the bouncing clock – a reincarnation of the 42nd concept
with a plastic penis and a wooden vagina
becoming micro-culture, meta-culture
If we could be anything – why not choose the smiling ship – Lining
the crests of weathered waves
Plotting an alternate course through the yare and yaw towards slanting harbors and crumbling growls – broken ropes
raping futures that kidnap the child inside and out
Struck by the tooth of the unmasked clown –
So I ask – must I ride the death donkey into the super lake of hell fire
without a smile upon my face? Without a smile upon your face?
Its really about perspective – perception – inflection
Navigating life with a smile on your face is
inscribed in the black and white speckled book
because a good captain – will take you places – teach you secrets within
Part Two: Finding Silver
I could move the elements of life
to sing within me
ike dimensia I reared it raised it shamed it
I am omni! I am omni!
am not… am not… I robot
the true course of your own personal ship
kissing us – and tempting us
demanding we fix this – replant this
Finding the tree that gives birth to the children of the Terra-womb
Deep down roots
Take – give – take – let’s look up………..
clouds are forever
like jungle sex in the ancient mud
let the soul sing out loud
teach me to sail in the wrinkles of your eyes
breast under palm – finger tips trace lips
far away – from linear transparent pseudologies
with energy flowing – ebbing
neither begins – neither ends
Silver – cog turning its silver lover
four pupils become a shared gaze
which ignites a blaze
turning backward – the continuum reaction
Turn-about turn-about – for wayward wandering
for intimate collisions and erotic collusions
and worried weapon worshipers
could do everything
could just fuck
neural networks – for good or for worse
My father’s father is, was, and will be my mother’s mother
De la Picasso Aphrodite
intercultural, extracultural
horizontal dreams from the Crow’s nest
they are watching – as our boat bow kisses those crying babies one by one
with its shiply shapples
thundering under the sore sullied foot
in the darkness
gazing into the mirror that gazes back
– must I nude my soul?
Must I love Without joy?
and reciprocated communication?
a choice to be made
a life within
secrets – leading you to the cliffs edge – and showing you how to fly
I have been reading Poetry
I have been reading Poetry for fifty years, as of this past April; so I think that gives some credibility to the sincerity with which I say this is one of the most beautiful poems, both in content and in format, that I have read in all that time. This is the first poem of yours that I have read, and I am far more impressed than I usually am with a first poem on a first reading. Wow!!!!
Starward
Super Duper!
You didn't even need to explain it to this guy. Lovely poetic concept words within words ideas. Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece.