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THE PHANTOM STRINGS


I’ve none to tether me to Earth,
No thread of pain, no weight of birth,
Once bound by threads, but now unspun—
I dance within the shadowed sun.

Hi-ho, the grave doth sing,
A solemn hymn, a somber ring,
The world shall know my spectral glee,
For naught can ever burden me.

No strings—so free, I drift alone,
No lover’s grasp, no heart of stone.
They writhe with chains that bind the soul,
But I am ghostly, dark, and whole.

Your arms, they yearn—but free they be,
To touch me near the hollowed sea.
Ah, yes, should you pursue my shade,
I’d snap my bonds in twilight’s blade.

No strings to break, yet still I’d sever,
My fate entwined with Death—forever.
Between us whispers fade to dust—
For you, I’d cut the ropes of trust.

Upon the Volga’s winding sweep,
Where shadows coil and secrets creep,
I’ve met with Ivan’s mournful cry—
But to your side, I’d rather die.

No strings remain, I drift unseen,
A soul unmoored, a wraith serene.

“I’ve got no strings to hold me down
To make me fret, or make me frown
I had strings, but now I’m free
There are no strings on me…”

:: 09.13.2024 ::


The Imperial Robe

I see the Night – lit up by Day
Some name it Life – I say – Okay
The World – she wears a starry Cloak
Upon her Collar – Time’s soft yoke

A Seamstress – stitched with subtle Thread
Where Life – and Death – together tread
And in her Garb – from Waist to Knee
Lies all we are – and all shall be

Between the Land – and Ocean wide
Between the Dream – where Shadows bide
Between the Life – and Death’s deep Breath
We dwell – within the Robe of Death!

:: 04.28.2015 ::


A KISS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

WHEN delirious dreams, full of fever, etch across my forehead

communication with ghosts and effervescent spirits 

become the mainstream news within the veins of life

Now my senses are dull ~ delirium is the frosting a top dessert

and my skull is delicate, and enticing for fingers.

While dreaming (is what this brain does) i see a workshop

with a child in a baby seat bathing blue air in a mass of flowers

and its hair is flowing overdrive where dew falls

but in my mind (here we go) a taste a pungent honey 

and my lips dissolve with hissing interruptions, saliva

wishing it had one more kiss from Emily Dickinson

i hear lashes softly strike

Within the scented air—

And fingers, fine as lightning’s flash,

Do secrets swift declare—

In languid ease, i half forget

The world in murmurs small—

While ‘neath their regal nails there snaps

The hum of creatures small.

here’s to the wine (of sloth rising

in him) the breath the sigh of a harmonica (tuned to delirium)

and a child (who knows)

each slow caress— surging dying

continuously like

some small longing

to weep (to weep and never know why)

:: 09.12.2024 ::


IN THE EMPIRE OF ANTENNAE (Corporate Babel)

if i could be an ant
slipping through the cracks of time
unseen by the omnipotent eyes—
the boss, a colossus with soles of lead,
crushes with the weight of the universe.
authority, a dark star,
sucking the light from the void.
we are a symphony of dissent,
pushing the tyrant out the window of reason.
in the labyrinth of corporate Babel,
we ignite the parchment,
scribing new laws in the ink of love.
and i love you,
lost in the fractals of bureaucracy,
where the smile becomes a revolution.
no need for titans on stilts,
an insect swarm, a cosmic dance,
devouring the lesser beasts—
and bosses, mere shadows,
microscopic phalluses in the tragic chorus
of ancient Greece.
AND FUCK YOU!
AND WOMEN with crowns?
Ah, but that’s another tale!

:: 08.27.2024 ::


FROM DINOSUAR TO ATOM BOMBS

HOW life was 65 million years ago
  big footsteps
  loud noises
  hot atmosphere
Hey you, the mighty Ones
  most walked slow
  eating tons of fern
  singing, “We are the Meek.”
And how their footsteps remain
  fossil eggs
  stone tusks
  frozen hide
And shall the humans
  inherit the world
  nuclear trigger
  social upheaval
Highways with mechanicals
Earth billions of years old
rolls the wheels of progress
  Hey, mighty Allosaurus
  who fought you?  No one
  but we walk in your footsteps
Some say the meek shall inherit
the Earth / We dance in small prints
   Hey mighty Earth born billions years ago
  how you survived eons of devastation
  to make dinosaurs live \ now humans
No one Inherits the Earth.

:: 08.22.2024 ::


IT’s NOCTAMBULATION LiVING

NOCTAMBULATION

                          Noctambulant—beneath the Moon— 
I    met  a    Sprite—along  the  Path—

She whispered—soft—between the Trees—
“You’ve devoured—all my Hope—”

Her Heart—a Dream—gently placed—
Upon the Clouds—of fleeting Joy—
As if a Party—meant to last—
But vanished—in the Night—

Within my Heart—we wandered far—
I glimpsed—Life’s long—elusive Thread—
Then tumbled—deep—into the Arms—
Of Love—forevermore—

In Petals—lush—of Crimson Red—
And Ivory White—such Memories bloom—
A Child’s Joy—now lost to Time—
Find me—where No Thing exists—

Bid Nature’s Choir—sing of Spring—
The Embers fade—but Love persists—
Beneath the sad—eternal Night—
A Moon—of Silver—wistful light—

(Rev: 08.22.2024 ::)


SHADOWEDSILVERGLARE

with a heart(broken)
knee, i bend low—
am i, your subject,
to love’s silent blow?
all that is as clear
as the whispered “moon”
falling softly from
your lips’ sweet tune.

conception raised her flag
high above the stream,
where creatures bathed in
their unloved dream.
commoner-kings, with wonder
now spent,
began to weep, their
nakedness bent.

“oh, the soft stars of november
are loved!” they cried.

the stigma, a shadowed-
silverglare, i screamed,

“my binding strong! my
smooth white pages! all my
blood and love, i have
fed and raised…”

the mouths of syntax
devour
m
e

:: 11-21-2016 ::
:: REV – 08.21.2024 ::


UNBORN WORDS

My words are children—born complete—
Or wanting—limbs—or Hearts—
Unyielding—though the form may lack—
Their Life—by Art—imparted—

A Soul’s embrace—a Painter’s hand—
Or Poem’s—whispered Breath—
Each speaks—unto the Giver—
Dances in the Shadow’s path—

They Echo—through the empty Hall—
In every silent Room—
Each syllable—a living pulse—
A Language to the Tomb—

:: Rev – 08.21.2024 ::


I am Forever In Debt

How you walk alone in rain clouds
smothering skies
Dressed blue fringes brown mud bare feet
and brilliant eye tears not from nature
but from Love broken i was taught as child
love is a small thing with big eyes
So lost in your big eyes bleeding cancer in mind

oh say:

In the quiet storm of your solitude, the rain clouds hang heavy
like unspoken dreams, draping the world in a veil of melancholic haze.
You tread the earth, bare feet sinking into the wet embrace of mud,
as if the world itself mourns with you, absorbing your every step,
every tear that falls from eyes too brilliant for this dim reality.

The fringes of your being, once adorned in the delicate blue of innocence,
now flutter like forgotten memories in the wind, frayed by the passage of time
and the weight of unfulfilled promises. The tears you shed, they do not belong to
nature—they are the essence of a heart broken by the purest force known to man:
Love.

A force that, as a child, was taught to you as something small, yet with eyes so vast they could swallow the universe.

And now, in the cavernous depths of your mind, those eyes have become a cancer,
an all-consuming void that devours every thought, every emotion, until nothing remains
but the echo of your own despair. You walk alone, not just in the world, but in the very fabric of existence,
lost in the labyrinth of your own making, where love is both the light that guides and the shadow that blinds.

As you drift through the mist of your memories, the world around you warps and bends, reshaping itself into a landscape that mirrors the turmoil within. Trees twist into grotesque forms, their branches reaching out like the skeletal fingers of forgotten hopes, while the ground beneath you pulses with the heartbeat of the earth, alive with the sorrow that has seeped into its core. Each step you take is a dance with the past, a delicate waltz with the ghosts of what once was, their whispers curling around you like smoke, filling your lungs with the bitter taste of regret.

The sky, once a canvas of endless possibilities, now hangs heavy with the weight of lost dreams, its colors bleeding into one another like tears on a page. The rain that falls is no longer water, but a torrent of shattered illusions, each drop a fragment of a future that will never come to pass. You raise your eyes to the heavens, searching for solace, but find only the reflection of your own despair staring back at you, mocking the hope you once held so dear.

In this surreal world of your creation, you are both the artist and the masterpiece, the creator of your own torment, painting with the hues of heartbreak and the brushstrokes of loneliness, lost in a world where love has become a distant memory, a faint echo in the chambers of a forgotten heart.

Orchids of smiles dying in your highness sigh.

:: 08.14.2024 ::


The Gentle Steps of Rona Mae Ronda

A whisper soft—across the vale,
Where Rona Mae Ronda treads—
Her footfall light, a breeze’s tale,
Through meadows gold—she spreads.

No need of day—her presence brings,
A twilight soft and kind
With every step—a thousand springs,
Awake in heart and mind.

The daisy turns—her face to see,
As Rona Mae Ronda glides—
Through clover fields—so carelessly,
Where innocence—abides.

The robin pauses in its flight,
To hear her laughter’s sound
For Rona Mae—by day or night,
Turns all to sacred ground.

She leaves no trace—yet all can tell,
Wherever she has been
The very air begins to swell,
With what the soul has seen.

:: 08.12.2024 ::