All that remains: in afterlife as 'mainstream' blogger, with what little I know. 20k views |
Obshchak Some torn to the ground Some burn to the ground Others removed brick by brick Redesign for the times When the lease comes up Or just fold up When you have a bad day and need a reason... Formerly: New Zenith To Hell…(all started with arc as writer here from the trials of Rising Stars to Preferred Author to WDC Quills Best Poetry Collection... "Whoever fights monsters should see to it…he does not become a monster.” - Some guy, I guess. Look it up? I’ve been to the abyss and back. Not so bad. The loneliest happy person you'd ever meet, when not the saddest person who needs to be alone. In an ever-changing world, we need to handle topics at the ready. If you roll over and give in to the narrative without lending a voice, might as well hand over your civil liberties. Voices could connect to true conscience and spirit for honest and open discourse. Why feel so redacted? Unify on issues or don't but put drama aside. Open minds require complete objectivity. Or, agree to disagree and have a beer. Just writing what I feel without the narrative-altering mind f---ing with my head. [MY Chorus] In your house, I long to be Room by room, patiently I'll wait for you there, like a stone I'll wait for you there, alone - Chris Cornell, RIP Some other stuff ▼ My recent poetry:
Sometimes epiphanies about my insights on writing and life and what goes on... Blah, blah, blah ▼ Thank you WakeUpAndLive️~Happiness for honoring me with your kind words! Read here some old blog entries... 2018 Highlights ▼ More... 2018: The Quiet Ones ▼ Brian K Compton notes an echo~ |
Happy Father's Day... Dodgeball was invented by dads frustrated with sons who couldn't catch. |
I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately... 6.29.15 |
I reread this today and asked myself why am I labeling them snowflakes? Description should be enough to give the reader a sense of what they're seeing without being told what it is. So I want to go do a rewrite and see if I can work with this more to give more character to the snowflakes without saying what they are. Although, the first line becomes sort of a throwaway. Have to seriously consider how I'm going to approach this without totally ripping apart the poem. Ride To School...A Poetic Moment Snowflakes from yesterday's flurries flock, skitter; vivacious, wild troops reforming, disbanding, rejoining in flowing concentric patterns away from me, faster than I dare drive, visor down, with the milky, orange lamp glaring, daring me, dimmed and sliced into spotty, pulsing rays by disrobed, unruly masts. As I navigate the obstacles to my visual delight, my co-pilot pleads not make a poem of this moment on his ride to school. |
Writing lyrics again. Yearning to create music once more. I've always had this fire in me, just never found the right time to go after it. Maybe, I never will. Always looking for an encouraging word, another sign, until I have enough evidence. Always putting clues together, but everything remains a hypothesis for what I should do. Listening to Chris Cornell Sing Is it so hard to believe at 6 AM, sitting at your breakfast table? The coffee is cold like the words unsaid on your tongue, yet you can still dream. Is it so hard to feel when you're alone sitting in the dark? No desire for the radio bleeding? Yet, you can still dream. Close your eyes and see. Is it so hard to live? She's gone from here, but her scent will never leave -- her light, haunting eyes that once helped you believe. Yet, you can still dream, if you close your eyes and see... Of course, that is not the title...subtitle, maybe. Piecing together my feeling for music and pairing it with life to see if there is enough emotion to make sense of reality. Playing a game with words in my head instead of dealing. Wish I could write music. Writing lyrics to songs I loved brought me here. I'm masquerading as a poet. Music and singing have been my life long passion. I've only been able to share it through writing up until now. BONUS LYRICS just riding the train and jotting down words emerging from my head... Not Who I Was Meant To Be I am the man in the mirror, just not the man I see. They were successful in changing me But suddenly I see...and I can feel what's rising inside of me. If I put myself out there, maybe I'll find me. I will greet you with a smile, firm handshake, but immediately you see...and I can feel messages your eyes are sending me. This is not who I'm supposed to be. Caught in a game I wasn't meant to play. Meant for more than this, repulsed, I suddenly know...and I start to think I need to slay the emerging monster. It's not too late, while I still have breath. Dismantling the machine after I take care of myself, but immediately you know...and now realize this brain cannot be toyed with. This was not who I'm supposed to be, and it's going to get ugly if you don't acknowledge, back off, not who I was meant to be. Not going to edit that one just yet. Need a break to prep my brain for another trip to gym. Crank the Rage! |
Ride To School...A Poetic Moment Snowflakes from yesterday's flurries flock, skitter; vivacious, wild troops reforming, disbanding, rejoining in flowing concentric patterns away from me, faster than I dare drive, visor down, with the milky, orange lamp glaring, daring me, dimmed and sliced into spotty, pulsing rays by disrobed, unruly masts. As I navigate the obstacles to my visual delight, my co-pilot pleads not make a poem of this moment on his ride to school. I started out wanting to comment on how snowflakes don't know their fate like happy children...seemed too depressing to go down that path. Just really fun to see them playing, waiting for more snowflakes to arrive to begin the winter season. Was playing with the words outloud in my truck when my son implored me to stop making up poems. I was just inspired by the moment, nature, that big, round sun that wanted to obscure my appreciation, though it was equally as beautiful. I could be a writer, I think. |