Hallucinations

Reminds me of my younger days

Hallucinations

By Jack Ivey

 

Is it there or is it not

Before my eyes a deluge of inner thoughts converge

Broadcast on an open plain

For lack of words to feign its impossible meaning

 

Does it dance or does it walk

Upon a stair cased flowered veil to deceive

Brilliant the light does mimic

In effervescent golden silhouettes

 

Will it scream or will it sing

Only time will fill the feast with ample solutions

Listen close as mornings find us

Sleeping on empty cartons of a desperate phrase

 

Does it live or does it die

Within my mind the scattered illusions come to bear

Of endings soon to find their path

In freedoms born of cascade truths on darkened city streets

Author's Note

Thank you for reading

Reviews

[eglantine]

I was immediately reminded of Shakespeare with that first line (To be, or not to be). "Does it dance or does it walk" really like that line.

[Jack...]

Thanks so much E. Just playing around with some weirds thoughts.

[Angi]

This piece made me think about words. Trying to focus them make them do what I want to do. In the end, they just don't cooperate with me sometimes. I am left asking the very questions you penned, Jack.

[Jack...]

Funyy how that works. Thank you Angi.

[carol burgess romance]

sleeping on empty cartons of a desperate phrase...I like this image...great work

[Jack...]

Just some things rolling around in my mind. Thank you.

[Keith]

I like this one, it dances around in a confuding array of images that must indeed reflect how hallucinations appear to the beholder.

[Jack...]

Thanks so much Keith

[John Alexander McFadyen]

A difficult one to interpret. The melody is haunting and as a mental health professional I was seeking literal hallucinations. Perhaps the kind of visions we have when we look at life and wonder.

[Jack...]

Just some abstract thoughts that passed through my head. Thanks John.

[Emerald Seas]

I enjoyed the deeper context, vague renderings that let us decide what it means to each of us reading. I felt a dark place that brings the character to the brink of madness, hopelessness close at hand. As they say, it is darkest before we see the light. I felt that in this piece.

[Jack...]

Thank you so much Sirrah.

[Rita L. Sev]

Does it dance or does it walk
Upon a stair cased flowered veil to deceive...

Sleeping on empty cartons of a desperate phrase...

Breaking out of your wheelhouse a bit with this one - I love the dark imagery, the ominous undertones. I am still wondering...

An aside - I always look at the dates a piece was added; the last two poems of yours I have read - one was posted on my sister's birthday, and this one on my husband's. Am I hallucinating? ;)

[Jack...]

Could be...strange things happen around here. Thank you Rita

[s y e]

"Does it dance or does it walk
Upon a stair cased flowered veil to deceive
Brilliant the light does mimic
In effervescent golden silhouettes"

Let's say it dances! Ha, I loved this write, Jack. It was a descriptive, powerful write.

~ Noodle.

[Jack...]

Thank you so much for your kind words my friend.

[s y e]

Welcome!

[Sami Khalil]

"Will it scream or will it sing

Only time will fill the feast with ample solutions

Listen close as mornings find us

Sleeping on empty cartons of a desperate phrase



Does it live or does it die"
A very powerful and descriptive write . All good lines to quote...:)

[Jack...]

Thanks so much Sami

[Sami Khalil]

My pleasure...:)

[TL Boehm]

Will it scream or will it sing
Only time will fill the feast with ample solutions
Listen close as mornings find us
Sleeping on empty cartons of a desperate phrase

You're speaking my language here. "Will it scream or will it sing."

[Jack...]

I thought you might like this. Thanks so much Tammy