The Horn Dorsal Gray

Holding back

abiding my intentions to abide

a lover lies beside with words like a cool taste of sand

you complement my infectious nature with empty landscape

chewing up the old pathway to furniture

every "now" is only a scratch on some last goodbye

a scar on our jiggered chin dragging into the old century

trying to remember the last remorseful ode

 

even the rose stands in a shattered glass confused

even the earth with its broken plea wants its destined wobble

 

an anthill-war we never intended

we never can concede these miseries

digging in deeper than our own confusion or state

the beetle thoughts drowning in their thimble of spit

what we believe comes back to haunt our resurrection

 

but

none of it such as gray

none of it such as your dead father’s eyes will ever reach these shores

 

we fade and drift into posterior butterflies

so long as hell from heaven knocks

so long as the mind dresses up with the morning lamp

and makes holy a mad man of the front door

the neighbors caught in the sparks from the words left out last night

 

so long as the floor swings open and oddity is still inside your mind

there are waters more promising

a fresh ballet and nuance

every wave slowing its path to touch each molecule

here and there is still a good uncertainty

 

so long as the paper man lives

so long as the old Zenith dies anchored from the attic

and the day rolls up to your feet

 

so long as we feel it sincerely

lapping with good earth

then there is still a chance and

who but the butcher knows our sadness

each step answering to another charm

Reviews

[barleygirl]

I've read this twice now & I can't figure out the overall meaning, but there are some very good passages that I enjoyed the second time around. I love the opening where you juxtapose these similar words: abiding, abide, besides. I love that you use the correct "complement" . . . and I love how you repeat the first couple words, to begin various clusters of lines . . . "so long as . . ." and my favorite line: "so long as the floor swings open and oddity is still inside your mind" makes me think of being openminded & open to things in life (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Perdition]

And I love that you got that line..we may see it a million different ways but as long as we are open to it what will stop us from being the collective miracles that stumble into cross or cortex or even into our lives should you be so bold as to leave the temples long enough...Although who wants to go without Amazon..just can't let fear get in the way our your brain will shut you down completely. Let the floor swing or the cherry blossom do their hodge podge of three am haikus and you have a head start into a peace and into the imagination of life that makes a carpenter a Penter on 4 wheels, just saying! and HUGS back Margie...wish I had a brass ring for everyone that hit the bull's eye. Smiles!

[barleygirl]

I have spent my life trying to learn to be more open to all things . . .

[Perdition]

Not yet you have..lol ;)

[lightsong]

so are You blaming the "Gray Dorsal Horn" for receiving these glorious feelings and let You then overwhelmed with their certain ecstasy? I don't think so. there is a certain ecstasy flowing in Your words.

[Perdition]

Stimuli Queen..stimuli but don't know..you're sorta getting into a gray area,,snicker...snort. And does it really matter,,Bwuaahhahhaaha....Oh grow up,,lol. CNS is a fun area to spend a some time in isn't it,,the connections of what nature mirrors and even the numbers affiliated ...strange and glorious all at once, But Blame? certainly responsible for what the brain receives on many occasions...You dissecting a spine today or something? ;)

[Perdition]

I said Light and wrote Queen..you two break it up,,lol, Sorry about that *Light and Queen...totally exhausted today. Hand and arm are working though ,,Yay!

[lightsong]

no worries at all though it's nice to be a Queen lol

Happy to know Your hand is behaving, still rest well to let this exhaustion fads awayyyyy...

[Perdition]

YES DEN MOTHER!,,lol. Actually it was the pull ups and push ups that got it healing eight months earlier so VIVa LE SHAMAN!

[lightsong]

SHAMAN ROCKS yaaaaa!!! and Den Mother rocks too! You are calling me strange names lol

[Perdition]

Annnnd You're Welcome!!..;p..Okay off to rest the hand for a few';,,Happy Monday Ending!

[lightsong]

and Thank YOU! now rest well, and Happy Happy Monday's Ending💞

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

that crackling white noise ...stay tuned...

[Perdition]

Okay? But there better be commercials.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Here I thought upon first read that it was about longer than a lifetime of togetherness. Through all that life brings ...even death,but it is that unexpected isn't it? Those things you are unprepared for and how the fear wells them up from the backbone and into the consciousness through you. Whirling and swirling around you in leaves of a hurricane...making chaotic nature, finding peace in the blindness hysterics...a final resting with love, without love, in love, outta love....through life or the pursuit of living.. even without it all.

[lightsong]

yes, may be my mind is small comparing to Yours to understand it fully sometimes. rebirth... revival... there is always a chance as long as we have a breath. I believe Your mind has its own language, his own sarcasm to express the deep despair and deep pain hiding behind it, wandering in life and the existence, a watcher he is, seeing and painting what he sees freely without thinking too much about the results, and here You left me with the taste of Placebo coming to my mind... (I'm in the basement, You're in the sky, drop on by... drop on by...) from English Summer Rain song.

[Perdition]

Well I can't give them all away now can I? However if you know the white and gray matter of the title, just a wee bit reversed as to make the reader work of course then you know the rest as the damage of an illness is evident ...you challenged me Light ...what can I say..lol. As for my own language ..No..merely a different style that hopefully will evolve the poetry into something not yet seen an hopefully wild enough to be unsaddled and set free over it's own course Perhaps a bit rocky but poetry is a wild emotion and a beast and something that must be appreciated from the higher tops of cliffs prepared to die if necessary lThere is still a need for such untamed things that will slowly amble their way up as you hold a treat..and needing to be tamed for just one second before they return to find their own pace. that place being one for the animals yet seen, or I could crash and burn, stay tuned..it is far from over..lol. Thank you Light!

[lightsong]

OK! I'm not well today, and normally when I read something I don't understand, I Google it, and this I didn't do to Your title but just now, because I thought it was a title of "Your" own, it's not fair to play a doctor lol so please excuse me now, I'm saving another review for later!

[Perdition]

Feel better Light..and get some sleep for crying out loud..and some soup...and vodka...and for the love of God take a shower already...Oh yeah and I'll take a sandwich with extra cheese and some sliced tomatoes on the side..thanks...lol. Goodnight Wonder Woman!!

[lightsong]

soup, vodka, shower, and sandwich with "extra cheese and some sliced tomatoes on the side" why am I feeling it's kind of a date?! lol and Wonder Woman oh I LIKE!

[Perdition]

Probably the extra cheese aspect..lol. And absolutely Wonder Woman..If I am Googled and thought as playing doctor than I hereby label you as Wonder Woman..lol. Feel Better and don't hurt yourself with the tomatoes on the side..I can handle just the soup, vodka, shower and sandwich without "extra cheese"...hahaha. And I prefer cherries rather than "dates".... pomegranates will do just as fine as well ;)

[lightsong]

hhhaaa I knew it would be such a fun to have a "date" with You LOL then I understand first, if I didn't google You into a "doctor" I wouldn't be a "Wonder Woman"? and second, You will leave me starving there with slices of tomatoes? well at least good that we agree on something, I LOOOOVE cherries and pomegranates (not the white sweet ones) yes surely better than "dates" lol