A vignette

Submitted by smiley7 on Wed, 11/08/2017 - 10:51pm

Sweet is the street

walking in sunshine

skipping on four rollers

snowboarding beyond boarders

breathing octagon crystals

inhalations

gasping to be

Drowned by the gullies

rushing in silt

smothering fish

flooding the news

food delivered, to the door,

in paper

wax

before its time

plastic feeding cretans of the sea

making hay in rhyme

antilogarithms to the dime

swaying, swaying, swaying

modern sirens on the shore

leading to nevermore

wanting, instilling 'paranor'

its mischief

never mistaken, mistook

yet hooked by neighbors, next door

Foolish ninny's bay in play

eating all the hay

not knowing

fox prey

coyotes slink, minks wait...

So it is

but should not be

cause it interferes

with you and me.

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Submitted by smiley7 on Wed, 11/08/2017 - 10:59pm

so astonished by

recent happenings, i'm obligated to record, set it down, somewhere, so thanks for my indulgence in advance. Cheers.

Submitted by JtC on Wed, 11/08/2017 - 11:12pm

Thank you...

@smiley7
my friend.

Submitted by janis b on Thu, 11/09/2017 - 12:30am

Good evening smiley

I very much enjoy skipping from place to place and through the colourful worlds your vignettes lead.

I often feel a tension in your poetry; between a serene and settled place, and a place that is also disquieting. Your work resonates with me in quite a visceral way. Thank you for your vocal and unaffected expression.

Wishing us all less interference of the unwelcome kind.

Submitted by smiley7 on Thu, 11/09/2017 - 1:16am

hey,

@janis b

tension holds all art together, i think; no, i know that to be true.

The uneasiness, my inducing anxiety in rhyme, i'm not sure about... whether it comes directly from me or i'm only the conduit of society's?

Certainly, i'm uneasy and unsettled, personally; possessing so many reasons not to be, but, it's never far away, this disquiet, is it?

Could it be wrapped in the mystery of birth progressing to death, something so simple...?
I think not.

Have no answers, just asking why...in hopes i learn more about living without affectations

in hopes i can grow into what i want to be.

Gosh, i'm trying to say that you feed me, inspire me, and fill us all with positive vibes as i write in hopes i contribute a little to your good effort, too.

Love and hugs.