VISIONS OF EMPTINESS; WARPED POETRY

in #poetry6 years ago

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Blunt bullets spitting skins
That won't sleep, that won't forget,
That won't forgive.
Tears falling like paper planes drowsy
With dew, with crying trees
And home becoming a faded picture
Sitting on the wall of my memory.


My hip is sitting on the table;
Science experiment becoming a star, a medal,
A single eye in a solution, winking
At the burning space that a world once lived.
Forgive, forget but an empty casket first.


War drums murmuring
As masquerades stretching shackled feet
Touch from the anthill to the village square,
To the cry of widows dusting their limbs
Beneath a brown moon, weeping
On river bed long since dead.


Dying with broken prophesies
Of prophets cured of madness,
Cured of visions; shivers, spittle and death;
Lots of death.
The world cracking into two days;
Each of silence;
The first day and the seventh day,
When HE rested with coffee and percod.


The world breaking bones
Like brittle chairs poked with bullet holes
Of termite teeth and dusty memories
Pushing open a large bottle and toasting the air;
Death again. The world is burning
And I am burying between your epicampus
All that I have lost; grief, fear, pain and love.


Bomb craters between here and there,
And everywhere a shelter where little children
Kiss their mothers, dying with toy gun wounds
And dreams that never fade, never wink,
Never die. Too much death.
Feverish eyes searching the sky for pearls;
HE is asleep; Valium and darkness;
Graves, flags and widow's blacks


STAY STEEMING

©@warpedpoetic

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This one's really agonizing as I went on with the poem. It's like on the brink of death while you watch all your loved ones perish before you, witnessing their demise with your own eyes as you wait for the reaper to guide you across the river Styx. Such sorrow such pain. I don't want to pass away having this kind of vision, if by any chance I get to experience this first hand, I might become a vengeful soul seeking to destroy all living beings who caused my suffering and wrath. And might as well destroy the world the way it is, to make way for rebirth, renewal, purge everything to give way for cleansing.

The world we live in is filled with wars and terror; death and hardship, so the vision is not too farfetched. We just hope solutions to problems that do not involve bombs and bullets can be found. Thanks for stopping by.

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I am trying to paint a picture of a world torn by war. The poet persona is a soldier dead, looking at the world as broken. I am also looking at life in a wartorn world. @flame-man

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Great Imaginary. My friend I think that you got the theme right on point. And presented our sad world ... trough lovely words and poetry :) Thank you for sharing this with us. God Bless You. Peace and Love.

You are welcome bro. The world is a scary place to be in sometimes

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