Every day a many-razored wreath
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Every day a many-razored wreath
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Rapidity of life with all its blades;
they fan out in a scintillating spread
and hypnotize, a peafowl's plumery —
overt or crouching in a secret glade
to dazzle or to denigrate the dead;
reflecting the effulgent lumin'ry
that bathes the ever-living with its rays.
A deadly wreath of promises and mays,
and must-be aspirations, knifèd prayers,
a blurry-mirror funhouse — strobe of stairs
unto the high delusions to ascend.
I fancy long, until I cannot mend
the ghastly, strange distortions of the mind
that stab so many pinpricks in the wall
of sanity — inflood the elements,
and midst the light and madness cannot find
a simple dark, a comfortable pall
to mute the yearn of spirit-bourne intents
that bubble from the silent spring to lave:
the figure mine descending to the cave.
Rapacity of life with all its limbs
and stringèd digits — gnarlèd hands of time
that thrum discordant rhythms — minstrelsy
saturnian. Thy skeletal divine
a-rattle with the brittle resonance
of agonizing aeons — slowly crawl
across the surface, ants and insects all:
the creatures under tread of titan's stamp.
They notice not their expiry, but pass
from form to form synonymous, the same
in all but countenance — in all but name
to face the same rapidity of life:
new-smithèd edges, and new-minted strife.
Words and images by Daniel Pendergraftcreated for HIVE on June 29, 2020.
They do look like interesting possible distortions of the mind. Love it!
Sorry if I don't understand poetry, but the pictures are like digital flowers, it's very beautiful..
This is lovely by all means I mean I love the last four lines of the last stanza, the repitition on the first line of that last four stanza, so amazing new words I haven't seen in a really long time. Awesome stuff Dan. The manipulated images are great.
beautiful words to match beautiful art, I really like the whole "rapidity of life" line because it seems time just keeps warping to feel too fast yet slowed down, who knows? maybe CERN did something. Great post,
Axey
Your pictures are so colorful I want to jump in. The text is more jagged and I feel I might get cut on the edges. I smoothed them out a bit and then took a dip. Just what I needed on a hot summer's day.
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