poetry IV

[~vxn~]

a few of my favorites from "Diary of Madness".  it's a work in progress... only at 56 pages...:

Hemophilia

Abuse the body to distract the mind,
soft between loneliness I stare—
fighting the ailment within the mirror.
Soundless, these bleeding wounds,
bullets of rage honor memories—
there's nowhere left to hide.
Mass graves of agony raised,
silently commanded by the past—
this bleeding never stops.
***

Helot

Branches scaling my cheek,
drenching my eyes;
forehead slips into face,
tree singes sweet skin.

Falls the drunken laughter,
climbing through my mouth.
Twigs open naked,
drowning frozen sorrows
self-medicated.
***

Heaven

Bleed my name into thought—
salvation across dirty slices.
Swallowing abandoned years,
my eyes stiffen blood spattered—
heaven one last time.
***

Antipodes

Eyes cocked burning,
I despise you unforgiving.
Sleep sought these dreams howling,
this twilight never soft.
A blanket of sorrow demands
burning currents—fire marching through me,
I burden the bleakness I cradle.
***

Wax

Wink slowly, songs end.
Long moon—longest tonight,
deepen torment—
patiently wait like heaven,
rest not these voices.
***

Against Time

My wings shred falling pieces of you
and slowly take the cuttings away—
those dying leaves still warm underfoot.
Summer is over.
***

Lagoon

My skin caresses
the sapphire pools
of twilight
in your eyes.
Your touch can
influence
a deeper slumber.
***

Annihilation

Twisted, you gaze over and I ruin this.
Floundering graceless, I throw you undeniable,
you know my mind—a touching symptom,
a feeling, a used body;
dark, wrong... yet soft.
I laugh at this.
you artlessly throw your birth of ruin,
pierce this desire velvety.
***

Whirl

Impulsive will ceases,
now there is none.
Destined—you can't turn back,
advancing glimpses touching skin.
Endless frenzy of lust,
fractured pathways shifting.
It's too late—
control lost.
***

Pirate

An oil slick of suspicion
leaking devoutly,
trickling,
spilling,
urine-warm and pooling at my feet—
you stomp the ships
swimming by,
though I'm tied to the mast.
***

Warrior

We're like
bow and arrow enemies
shooting weapons of
self-destruction
standing in a parking lot
of empty fields.
Eventually,
we'll have nothing left to throw
not even
each other.
***

Bond

Seeing is never looking,
unfold inside the memories—
again pain binds me to you.
Without weakness there is not strength;
time curves anything.
The longest harm happens,
watch it interfere like heaven.
Nerves crash calm—
the ties that hold strangle you.
***

Pan

Peeling cupboards,
migrate south.
I climbed in one once
or more.
You'd looked across
from under the kitchen chairs,
the basement was not far;
we hid from it
...and growing up...
not long enough.
***

Survivor

Ensnared by the threads
of a vacant, rotting womb,
blackmailed by nothingness;
alone I wail.

Ghost body turning torment,
rotten it waits for me.
Inward I dwell—
another botched termination.
***

Abandon

Their velvety skin festering
and corroded throats dying;
a tongue bleeding silent—
little cheeks never stainless.
Passing against morning,
these wounds annihilating love.
Where are you
when they need you?
***

Rosary  inspired by a comment by followsthewolf

My, my!  Aren't you contrite
after countless acts of spite!
Run a few more laps around the beads,
and beg forgiveness for your evil deeds.
Absolution is for the vengeance impaired—
lucky you, I've got no problem there.
***

Trojan Horse

Your
hands touch
my eyes and
grab tightly my
attention as I walk
not too far behind your
expectations.  I don't want
to hurt you, but I have to and
I will.  Your eyes touch my skin and I
leave them burning; my departure kills me.
***

Fallen 

Names of Soldiers—
Brothers—
inscribed in granite,
white-petalled agony of war.
Bodies—
a monument to destruction.
Their lives—
a monument in stone.
***

Sleepwalk

Unforgiving concrete burning my shoes,
howling I sought refuge.
Sleep with claws riding my pillow,
a close blanket of empty dreams—
alone I wander these streets.
***

Larvae

Flies burst
from between my teeth
while the maggots
contentedly squirm
inside my stomach lining—
with a vengeance.

Their presence
radiates from behind
my eyes and beneath
my fingernails,
they're waiting for you—
with me.
***

Viscera

Horizon's spiraling away,
bloodlust seeps through silence
exposing uncontrollable attacks;
mournful rain scours endless.

Anger surging relentless,
blindly with jealousy
I knotted your innards.

Wrath is bewildered ambition—
deserted secrets become graves.

Perhaps, I am lost as well.
***

Kamikaze

A hundred years I'm falling in the street,
benign habits seem malignant in
the darker places where I weep.
A hundred years I'm falling,
I'm falling in the street; there
are no harmless tears
in the darker
places where
I weep.
A
hundred
years I am
falling, falling
in the street.  Benign
habits seem malignant
in the darker places where
I weep.  A hundred years I fall
and I'm falling in the street, benign
is malignant—these places that I weep.
***

Assylem

You think it's funny I'm in one of these places,
but they won't even let me have shoes with laces.

So many pills—I'm feeling no pain.
How dare they imply that I'm not sane!

They've got me medicated three times a day,
and I can't get a day pass either way.

You can all sit on the edge of your seats,
but I'd rather hang myself with my sheets.
***

Tiresias

Crosser of tracks
Harmer of stones
Speaking to trees

Keeper of streets
Wishing on stars
Drowner in puddles

Toucher of fire
Watcher of clouds
Skipper of streets
***

[American_Woman]

Critical thinker. You have alot of talent gal. Good Luck!

[~vxn~]

my sincerest and darkest thankx...

[American_Woman]

my sincerest and darkest thankx...

YW & thank you for sharing.