Surrealism

“The Burning Giraffe” by Salvador Dali

 

flights of deconstruct
reconstruct fancy
fantastical visions
dismembered familiar
atrocities masked of
their outrage composed
revolutions of images
straddling the gap
between dreams
and reality raising up
visual voices that clang
in the ear of the eye

prima facie absurdity
shot through with
uncontrolled rational
politics viewpoints
exempt from esthetical
colloquy lifting the work
off its page off its canvas
to float on provocative
currents of thought

unforgettable statements
the art of anarchic
surprise using juxtaposed
features of chaos as
message and medium

 

 

From my books Ephemera and Legacies (vol. 2)

Two-Cornered Rooms

“Relativity” by M C Escher

impossible spaces
absurd of dimension
beyond the delimiting
rational mind
constructed unconsciously
negative volume
containing the everything
known to be nothing
my never-lived lives
here unfold in their follow
of unfounded precepts
truths built out of lies
shaped to suit
imperceptible visions
of futures
without any past
these are dwellings
whose tenants
unborn of the flesh
disport vainly
in vacuums
denied rightful leasehold
in rooms of reality

 

 

(originally posted October 2013)

Kafkaesque

Assemblage by Laurie Dorrell

existentially brutal
ignoble surrealist
grotesqueries drawn
upon canvases
tortured by dark
abstract penmanship
granting sublime
antiheroes absurd
inescapable states
of distress within
mundane realities
bristling with blades
of degraded dystopian
culture where even
the commonplace
customs of social
community lacerate
unlucky souls with
a merciless mien

in other words
this is a bent
bizarre genre
profane to the holy
but sacred to
anyone lost
either way a most
dreadful provocative
narrative certainly
not for those born
faint of heart
except for the rare
stricken few who
who cast shadows
of giant monstrosity

(originally posted December 2013)

Two-Cornered Rooms

“Relativity”
Drawing by M.C. Escher
From inadvertentlyart.com

impossible spaces
absurd of dimension
beyond the delimiting
rational mind
constructed unconsciously
negative volume
containing the everything
known to be nothing
my never-lived lives
here unfold in their follow
of unfounded precepts
truths built out of lies
shaped to suit
imperceptible visions
of futures
without any past
these are dwellings
whose tenants
unborn of the flesh
disport vainly
in vacuums
denied rightful leasehold
in rooms of reality