Poetry – Page 5 – Mannino Acid

Evershine

We are sons of suns Rent from cosmic dust Ageless yet ephemeral From clay to bone to rust Simmered in the primordium A fusing organic stew Each quantum thread unspooling Into seeds from which we grew Sparked by atmospheric bolts A molecular genesis starts Cellular replication explodes The whole not the sum of its partsContinue reading “Evershine”

Theater of the Absurd

Welcome one and all To insanity on display Where songs from a once-great hall Loop endlessly all-day Where carnivals of calamity Capture cretins carousing in vain Washing each drop of their humanity Down the hyperbolic drain Gaze in silent wonder At the spectacle of excess When it’s a bargain for a blunder There can beContinue reading “Theater of the Absurd”

Phantasmetaphoria

Begrudgingly from beyond The specter stealthily stepped Dragging corpses in its wake Of promises yet unkept. Hesitantly from haze The wraith restlessly returned Sweeping ashes from the grave Of happiness it burned. Distantly from darkness The spirit suddenly sprang Bearing scars of conflagration From the hatred that it sang. Gathered in a circle Repentant revenantsContinue reading “Phantasmetaphoria”

Attention: All Would-Be Social Media “Slacktivists”

The world has grown weary of your toothless rationalizations. Your conditional “I hate racism- BUTs” and your equally banal “why can’t we all get along” sentiments echo hollowly down the corridors of history. I realize we are all striving to make sense of this chaos but there comes a time to put the anger backContinue reading “Attention: All Would-Be Social Media “Slacktivists””

Scenes From a Modern Pandemic

There was this undercurrent of panic coursing just beneath the surface at the store this morning that was most unsettling. Like we were one cough away from pandemonium. People cast their gazes about frantically, eyes darting from shelf to shelf in a twisted pantomime of dream induced REM, fearful of making contact. The dreamlike qualityContinue reading “Scenes From a Modern Pandemic”

Smooth Jazz

Two fingers of whisky for he, Just one more glass of wine for sheAmber and garnetSmooth and sublimeJust a few warm sipsTo ease the passing of time The evening rolls languidly byTwo become one in the dwindling lightTemperatures riseHeart beats syncAnd the sax of the jazzBring the couple to their feet In a blur two bodiesContinue reading “Smooth Jazz”

On The Nature of Reality

Did I dream this life And am I still asleep A quick slip down the rabbit hole Leads to a trip to the underneath I spiral down the emptiness Where up is down and down is out Tiptoe through absurdities Too curious to think about I venture out among the chaos Wander down to depthsContinue reading “On The Nature of Reality”

Dizzy With Infinity

Let’s illuminate the abstractTranscend a quantum leapReality skews the etherLight permeates the deep Where one thread endsAnother spins freeLooping back onto itselfDizzy with infinity The signal breaks downCloser to the sourceThe patterns that emergeCircumscribes a subtle force Waves parse dark matterFractals bloom in proximityLight stalls at the event horizonDizzy with infinity Deeper towards the bottomRealityContinue reading “Dizzy With Infinity”

Ease and Eves

If you can’t see the forest for the trees You won’t see the tree for its leaves Myopic dysphoria becomes the bigger disease When the dreamer only sees what he believes There’s no glory picking fleas off bigger fleas Futility kills what you hope to achieve With fetid fate indifferent to your pleas Murdered potentialContinue reading “Ease and Eves”

Face The Sun

Light yawns slowly awakePalm trees gently swayMorning chokes the hazeDampness burns away Eastern thermals churnBreezes chase the coldWarmness eases inInvigorates the bold Dormant creatures stirNature sighs awakeNight shrugs off its mantleMoonlight flees the lake Sound replaces silenceStillness goes astrayDark dissolves to sunriseBlackness bleeds to gray One final gasp of nightExhales and dawn is doneRadiance awaitsContinue reading “Face The Sun”