Turquoise Monster

This is the moment when the clouds that had glowed so fantastically tangerine
Have faded to lead, pinning the once brilliant sky into dread certainty

The moment when the chips that had been so fine and smoothly hot
Are soggy cold and taste of stale fat

We look at each other pondering a kiss to reawaken the splendor of the night
But the fizzy beverages consumed with taste bud exploding goodness
Repeat themselves, and one of us emits an unattractive belch

Sensation is muted and any sex had would be flat or painful
And yet within these moments the remembrance of glory is enough

Moments shift and move
And now the leaden dead sky gives birth to a florid blue studded with ice gems
Tangled grey ribbons fluoresce
Moonbows show delicate colours at their rims

Walking on this stony ground
Pushing through this thorny crowd
Celestial bodies cry out
Sometime I wish to dismount
The fires of creation
That made me seek sensation
And so the –
Stars are shredding my heart
The sun is shredding my soul apart
The Moon is mashing up my mind
I wonder what they will find
Dissecting
Me, Myself and I

Insectile hum
Drumming the mind
Into rank puree
Enzyme puke
The fly feasts
Sucking up thought
Mankind’s endeavors
Grey gloop
Transient in the heat
Of Creation

Insects buzz
The crowd
Drones of summer
hedge in all reason
And
One shout
Takes us down
Insectile humans
Creating our own
Eradication
With
Toxic filled nests
Feasting till
Starvation
The human creature
Locust
Wasp
Cockroach
Fly
Insectile buzz
Human annihilation
with
Extermination of kind

My brain split
Spewing maggots of thought
Upon the page
Eating the shape of words
A story
My story
It begins –
Sweet rotting succulence
And ends with –
Dry brittle dessication

Recumbent lovers lay
Pebbles in an icy stream
Touching here
Touching there
Higgeldy, Piggeldy
Nature’s way
Warmth mixes
From their –
Sleep enshrined forms

Tuesday I went into Cheltenham to record poetry 🙂 Cheltenham’s After Dark magazine videoed me and three others doing a variety of poetry and prose (our own work). It will be appearing on their site in a couple of weeks 🙂

At the beginning we were like snow flakes

Elegant and bueatiful

Slowely drifting through the sky

We landed on the ground

Blanketing all in pure white

Rainbows glinted off of us

But then we lay and they trod upon is

Changing us into dirty slush

Dangerous, slippery

A trap for the unweary

Icicles grew and punctured us

Bleeding out the joy

Drops fell from us

What was once apart of us

Compounded, compacted

We became transparent

All that had been bauetiful and intrinsic

Turned to a refracted invisibility

Yet warm hearts lurked benieth

A hard ician shell – to a delicate world

We still survived

Until the pressure of each blow

Growing nearer the middle

Then we cracked and we splintered

Fractured beyond repair

Moving apart

Leaving an abyss of darkness

Blistering cold to the skin

We no longer touched

Just drifted away

To melt alone

On seperate distant shores

Well it is the end of NaPoWriMo and I have again got more than 30 poems all of which need looking at and sort and maybe cough throwing away!

I really like these writing challenges they really help get me going.

Anyway the blog will now be back to weekly posts 🙂

One of the things I have been doing this month has been to generate art from art adn I like slightly off beat things so my husband showed me the Miltos Manetas Collection which belongs to some artist guy he sees in London. I loved the collection and decided it was perfect to use as poetic inspiration – unfortunately not all of it works on my sadly dying laptop but those I could see/play around with I have constructed poems from – not all visual poems but mainly.

Once I have a fixed laptop I will do the rest of them and in prodding around on the interwebs I like some of his own work which I may use for inspiration in itself.

For WoPoWriMo back in February my friend did the whole month by writing from paintings – this seems like a really good idea to me and I may well do that for the next Poem a Day challenge!