| I am signaling you through the flames. The North Pole is not where it used to be. Manifest Destiny is no longer manifest. Civilization self-destructs. Nemesis is knocking at the door. What are poets for, in such an age? What is the use of poetry? The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. If you would be a poet, create works capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times, even if this meaning sounds apocalyptic. You are Whitman, you are Poe, you are Mark Twain, you are Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, you are Neruda and Mayakovsky and Pasolini, you are an American or a non-American, you can conquer the conquerors with words.... -Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
haiku for going blind.
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haiku for going blind.you fingerprinted my existence and I just counted syllables.haiku for going blind.
by ~Scatterdotted
regression.this is the only poem I will ever write to youregression.
and I couldn't even capitalize the first letter.
by ~Scatterdotted
103.in the color of teakettles103.
and the sound of glaciers.
out the sensation of stopsigns
and the smell of metallic cliche.
the skeleton key that I dragged over your wrist clicked open the door to a minefield of inkpen explosions, wool scratchy enough to draw blood.
I think the heart is under the palm,
or yours is, anyway. puncture wounds are sign of loyalty.
of needing and heeding.
this is what it means to bite the hand that feeds me. that
loves me. that devolves me.
you've turned me into a child, a glassy-eyed ape, feasting
by ~Scatterdotted
she loved big brother.you areshe loved big brother.
winking through the curtains
like a sniper. like a secret
left behind, staining your
upper lip. like a dream you wake up screaming from, only to find that
your fear is laced into
the fibers of your pillow.
in tall glass houses, in peeking
by ~Scatterdotted
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I've missed your incredible predictability.
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I've missed your incredible predictability.
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unplug thephone.stop all the taps.itall comes flooding back.from poisoned cloud to poisoned dwarf>>what a nastydulkbhs SurprisE.the wormsll come for you big boots
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