"Gothic Gazing" (Myopic Melancholia)

"Gothic Gazing"

(Myopic Melancholia)

 

She stood before her cracked mirror

With the Byzantine accessories

That completed her Sk8tr gurl mentality

 

Black eye liner exposed

With lipstick smeared appropriately

Her anti-establishment  stance

Locked & ready to fire

 

Her black thick Mary Jane platforms

Gave height to her stern belief

That only aesthetic values

Can halt the habitual hemorrhage

(Of our civilization)

 

The structured poetry

Of Sylvia Platt

The mercurial musings

Of Maya Angelou

And the emotional independence

Of Betty Friedan

Sang an anthem

To her disenfranchised soul

 

She refused to be distracted

By the idiosyncrasies of democracy

 

She only needs her acoustic accompaniment

And the musings of a blank page

To record her rebellious thoughts

 

NEVER

Give into the natural (dis)order

Is her mantra of martydom

She refuses to march

To the sychophantic songs

of servitude 

 

She needs nothing

(and no one)

 

But LOVE

was another matter

 

Love was the essential element

The one common denominator

 

The single artistic value

that held her (dis)interest

In her bombastic, boring

and morally inferior

(brethren)

 

Kenny L. Mitchell

September 22, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[deleted]

This is a new one on me. You tried a new genre of writing. It was very intriguing. I was like reading lines and then I thought that she was acting this way because the only thing she needed was love. A lot of teens (people) act out b/c of a lack of love. I love it. You really showed your writing capabilites on this piece! Bravo!

[emmajoy]

Line by line you build the woman's image .. there .. like her over there .. and, over there. All living and look contrary to society's norm.

You have a unique way of seeing things, your thoughts reach deep : ' Give into the natural (dis)order
Is her mantra of martydom She refuses to march To the sychophantic songs of servitude '

And there she is professing her spirit by external look and behaviour when all she wants is what we all we crave .. love

[J Lorriane]

I love this one as well. I LOVE your work!

[Ellen Hammond]

Outstanding! Kenny, you are very gifted. With your words and imagery you have brought this girl to life in my mind. A deep, thought provoking write. I am so grateful our paths have crossed. Your writing is a gift to all who read it.

[Lady V]

Your poetry is amazing. Your style makes your poems stand out. This piece is great. The poet, in general, writes against something others in the world may think is right. Their words are the opposite of what people want them to believe.

Great piece.

Live, Love and Learn

Lady V

[Rosa Sophia]

Wow... I really like your syle. I have no complaints with this. (Sometimes my oft-inability to professionally and properly edit poetry annoys me. I'm more of a fiction editor, and I always feel lame when I have nothing constructive to say...) Although I do not wear make-up and I haven't touched my platform boots since high school (lol) I can definitely relate to this poem... I often feel like some kind of reject, like I don't belong in this material-oriented society. Thanks for writing this. I loved it!

[cest la vie]

Kenny,
I was trying to pick out my favorite part, but they all are.. Your words, phrases, imagary were dead on. I know this girl, you know her, just an exceptional write. As all of your poems are, you truly are on another plain... An intellectual plain many poets aspire to, yet few ever mount. You my friend, are sitting on the top!! King of the Hill-that's Kenny!!