Monday, October 13, 2008

Lost in a moment

I lived.
I lived and I wanted.
I wanted to be,
and in being, to be
an artist. I wanted
to create a masterpiece.
I wanted, so I went
out
and got it.
For canvas, I chose
the world.
On that canvas I
scraped
out
my
soul.
I poured out on it
every tear
that ever dropped from my
eyes
and bled from my
heart.
I threw on to it
every laugh that flew
from my mouth
and every smile
I ever meant.
I burned into it
all the anger that
ever clenched my body
and every shade of hate
ever to
sear
my
soul.
I froze on my canvas
every fear that
stopped my heart
and every anxiety and
worry
that shook my
mind.
Inside my canvas
I lit
every joy, every happy
thought that brightened
just one day
I lived.
I vomited onto my canvas,
I dreamed onto my canvas,
I laid out every part of
me
onto
my canvas,


until I was my canvas


and the artist formerly
known as me
stood back and gazed
on the greatest
Sidewalk-Chalk Mural
ever created
in the history of man
and he wept at its
perfection.
With the fall of his first tear
it began to pour rain.

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Timber

*this may be my first semi-legit beat poem. As you read, please pretend it is me, reciting it and accompanying myself with the bongos, and dressed completely in black with sunglasses. NO beret though. My head's too ginormous for hats and my hair's to bushy.

I, Lumberjack
have a knack
for taking whacks
with my axe
to ponderous, proud, pine.
You, tall tree, see me
Approach
and bite blade
to your body.
Noble Pine, stretching high
I make you mine
with each swing, thrust, and cut
I take a chunk, a hunk
from your trunk
until the roots, your roots,
life giving trails and tails
who feed needs and strive
to keep you alive,
the anchors of time,
from which so high you climb,
are cut
off
and you die,
in one fell fall
one deep descending dive
into you doom.
Heralded by my cry, one wailing,
loud lusty sonorous shout
of
TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMBBBBBBBBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRR!
a tree falls in the forest with only me to hear it.
I move on to the next.