And If You Don't Believe Me

Stars crashing in frenzied mania...adrenaline nectar

Shadows on the silver tell of the unknown

The cosmic collective unconscious collided in the reflection of the mirror

Collapsing into a tube of sound all around is my arctic visions

The rhythmic movements usher in the trance

Bubbles and baubles beat rhythms in my brain

A decisive derision...a ride on an expired transfer

Parallel lines will eventually intersect

Reality was reel-to-real

Caught in a wave of caution

Subsequent dreams provided the truth

Sparkling water shown bright in the moonlight

Mutated petals on a rose of your choosing

Wishes are not only for the lonely

Depth of thought...height of sensation...width unknown...

motorized....paralyzed....beauty...

a saccharine starlet speaks of love...unbelievable

the game is eight ball...rack 'em up

barely born and already gone

faces on shoes that tell the time

and off in the distance I saw a vertical horizon

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is one of three poems that I wrote collaboratively with my two best friends in the Universe...who wish to remain anonymous for now...We went to see an abstract play and were late so we sat around and drank coffee and wrote poetry instead and each wrote a line off the top of our heads and passed around a sheet of paper folded over so we could not see what the last person wrote...it is wild how it all is so abstract and yet flows and you can read each poem forwards and backwards and it works both ways...maybe we were picking up on the energy in the space cuz we went back and saw the play the next night and it was way out there abstract...it was Theater Oobleck's The Slow and Painful Death of Sam Shephard...so caffeine combo with space energy equals the three poems the trio wrote...in case you care, my lines in this one are starting with the third line then skip two lines...read it backwards starting with...and off in the distance I saw a vertical horizon...faces on shoes,etc...pretty weird but neat right? Oh yeah, I refer to the three poems as brain candy...can you see why? Drop me a line...The other two are Cosmic Electric Collective Unconscious and Straight from the Horse's Mouth if you wanna check them out if you liked this one.My personal fave line I wrote on this one is...depth of thought...height of sensation...width unknown..

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fighter4life's picture

Wow, this poem is amazing both reading it forwards and backwards, thats amazing how you can do that. You are extremely talented.

fighter4life's picture

Excellent description.

Ruth Lovejoy's picture

excellent write in the abstract and I love abstract it makes one have to think and analyze. Keep writing!!!!!!!