Duende

Reason sleeps in my barren trees

I often tell myself

black as the sheet that strains along the slight

hidden inside my nature

Reason sleeps and carves the knife of wishes into a mind of fog that covers the windows and lures away sleep’s sanity

 

there are times when I forget to let small things in

times I forget to let them out, stopping to see what dark clouds are swirling on the fist of horizon, times when the world slips into hallucinogen, escaping through the last draw and image, times when you can hear the rising of your chest

and the door opens but death comes not to night

straining instead toward darkness with the flame and gasoline of heaven’s light

 

most have heard the world’s reflection

their silicone slope passing by 

a gold tipped butterfly

green as the flowers the ghosts will carry

denuding the thoughts of loveliness from our eyes

but I am exposed

tied with the hands that were borrowed by rope

to brush away the momentary fly from its fruit when

she bears herself in din and dark tranquility

 

still this howling note growls

awake in the frozen bulb

I tell myself

watching the moon’s shadow sculpt a miniature neon christ

watching memory’s face laugh back as dusk swims slow and steady

for this sleep turns my fray into night with the song of the robin

and the footsteps beneath my journey from

the murky end of the fox

Reviews

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

so, right hand palsy....reason...which is left brained...maybe this thinking should be more analytical and less artistic....maybe we need another view...scoping it from all sides and not just the one we are intuned to?

[Perdition]

No it's all figured out and healing (could take up to a year)...the cause is either trauma or sleeping on the nerve and we all know sleep is not something I believe in so all is good...The "saw it off" refers to poetry and putting me out of my misery. Don't you normally put this comment on the photo?..lol

[Perdition]

Such a rule breaker!

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Well, I was talking about the first paragraph but yes I was looking at the whole scope(pic included) and pfftt - all figured out...since when has it been that easy....how about trauma while sleeping ...you never said anything about those dreamstates....one can do ALOT of damage throwing lightening bolts...even in one hour:)

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

well who made up the rule that we have to color all the inside of the image...why can't we just color everything outside and frame the art that we see :)

[Perdition]

Cause it would make perfect sense and all things right...duh...believe it was you that made that rule but you were high so we forgave it all...don't remember? ;)

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

forgive me, Ive slept since then....those memories fell on the slippery marbled floor....

[LazerRays]

As beautiful as ever, perdition. You have the ability to take darkness and showcase it with delicacy. I wish I could write beauty- but eh, that's not my department. This is a wonderful mix of the two. It seems more like a professional masterpiece than a normal poet. Tell me, do you publish these in books? Cuz you'd be amazing.

[Perdition]

Hey...Happy New Year and sorry for the disappearance..stupid pinched nerve has me limited with a useless hand and the tool must keep up withe the voice inside or else..well bummer. You are so sweet and that time of throwing all the wrath into a paperback is calling me so who knows? Want to be the editor? Hope you had a blast over the Holidays and wrote the site down in something deliciously grand way ...and yes you can so stop criticizing my friend!..lol. Thanks Sarah.

[LazerRays]

Oh that's ok Perdition, you're a Houdini! Think of it like that! Haha, my holidays was fine too; I hope yours went well. I hope your hand gets better, because the way you shut up a writer is by cutting off their hand... Torture. Eh, I'm only sweet to my friends- so haha, don't think I'm sweet to everyone. Hope your day is well! And I'd love to be the editor XD haha ;P
Take care!

[Abhishek Izy]

This is delightfully imaginative and dark-ish. You have a tremendous way of imagining things. Please keep up the good work

[Perdition]

thank you and will try my best. Insomnia helps..lol.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

33 views and Ive barely opened my eyes. You have been busy in my sleep. Those goblins steal away what is important. Im guessing the fox was on your porch again...stealth and cautious. I havent been out to see what the world holds in a while. Have heard no birds chirping, have not closed my eyes for the breeze.My cocoon is disheartening and I feel more clumsy than ever. I am going back in...im catching a chill here. more later after I ve had more coffee.

[Perdition]

So still the same I see..hahaha..and a fox is not always Alfie ya know, though he has been around..I caught whispers on Christmas eve about new eyes,,strange days. Thanks!

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

nothing about new toes huh? I need a couple of spares. I keep running over mine and everyone else's.lol OUCH!

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

those lines...letting the small things in and then out..the opening and closing...we are demons within our own selves.

[Perdition]

As above so below...but there is a bridge Dante and it will help out to draw out an image to this friend you call a demon...(ouch..ouch)..lol

[Perdition]

*help to draw out an image,,,,