Poetry

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Serendipity (Original Poetry)

15 Nov 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Krisz Rokk

My arms bend, twist, and turn upside downwhen I grab the wheels to straighten my spineAeons have passed since I looked insideand now that I did, I’m mesmerized,calm, lucid, and eager to reconnect with my inner child. Memories reigniteshacking me to t...

Poem For Judee Sill

15 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The spirit bomb has ruptured at theseam Life is not a dreamin lowerCalifornia The nightmare is a joyride And no sorrow is likeyours, myfriend; Silence is our tomb And we would have beenin love; We would have shaken itto pieces As only damaged soulsc...

The strawberry

14 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

I know that in my childhood there was a day, a moment, an hourwhen I discovered the purple flavor of the strawberry,but that day, that moment, that hour,have been lost forever. The strawberry has, but also foreverthe purple flavor of childhood. When...

Everything that hurts is wrong,

13 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

  it doesn't matter at all if it exists and if there was a god or several godsworking day and night to build it because if it hurts it iswrong, that the body that lies under the weeds or scatteredin ashes has become accustomed to death does not remov...

Television Eve

11 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

It's television eve inTel Aviv You don't even have to ask usabout Damascus There's a new deli inNew Delhi, a newgirl inBerlin, andan old pair of dragonedqueens In NewOrleans, rippingwormholesin their jeans To the soundof Shostakovich,singing Likea [R...

The Americano Struggle

9 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then suddendestruction cometh upon them, as travail upon awoman with child; and they shall not escape.”1 Thessalonians 5:3   As soon as Trump won the election, Mexico gave the northbound migrants 24 hours t...

Intelligent Design (Original Poetry)

8 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

A new species knocks on the doorit has a different vibrational architecturethen the one that resides at our core.Will we hand our power over orinfuse it with ethics and morality, and allow it to explore? We’ve trained to be creators of Universesand d...

Return of the Ghost

5 Nov 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The war is in words and the wood is the world."Weldon Kees   Weldon Kees was a poet who disappeared in San Francisco at the age of 41.  His wife was an alcoholic, and had a psychotic break while watching the McCarthy hearings on TV.  She was institu...

The Inside Oven Oven

2 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

It was hot outside todaylike the insideoven oven All the grasson the moonis black; The beach is graylike a cigarettetray, The mountains madeof ash, andcracks Will formin the lunarclay; The ocean of snow will be revealed; I walked awayfrom the smokin...

That's all

28 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

I want someone to explain it to me. Tired of turning the subject over in my mindin a philosophical way, trying in vainto discover the key, the sufficient reason,to the simple episode that precededmy mother's subsequent death.Six croissants inside a b...