Sundown

 

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stop the shadows
please stop them
already too lengthened
stretching my stick figure
legs tall as ambulant trees

head drawn darkly
in sharp angled
chimney-stack silhouette
hideous with an
elongated scream

reaching closer toward
end of day
wanting to touch
that dead moment
of sundown oblivion

 

 

(originally posted November 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)

Unnerved

“Moonlight Coming Through Window” by Oiiou

eerie moonswept shapes
chilling fearful sensations
unremembered dreams

Bitter Truth

Photo from
sodahead.com

a boy and a girl had a mommy
who died from a bomb in an ungrateful land
the boy and the girl and their daddy
had nothing to bury but clots of burned sand

a casket flag veiled the true horror
preserving illusions her meaningless death
served nobly the causes of freedom
where freedom will never not ever draw breath