I really like this as is but I share some thoughts:
Now go the hell away. Very good use of this line. I'd make it the title unless a specific event or place comes to mind. Like "Workshop, May 32nd, Highway-to-Hell, Nevada".
I'd find active verbs for each use of 'is' and replace each 'the'. Like "May's sky screams blue; Spring's sea blooms green". This provides a season and action, sound, something.
Could use a grammar check unless you like it as is. Grammar is less important in poetry; this isn't an essay. For a definite pause (like for rhythm) you can use an emdash instead of a comma like: "I kid you not — nature's obscene,"
To add "darkness" to it... this is that season...
Explorers with lost souls explore,
Search worlds they've never searched before,
They'll kid you not — forevermore,
Now go the hell away.
What if stark reality
were like a movie show
moving frames of universe
how would we even know
sixty times a second
each frame a new creation
complete with memories
within each incarnation
Simple things for simple minds
Might not be simple at all
For each of those simple things
In concentration
Upon reflection
Brings deeper insight
Cooking an egg could create
An image of great damage
That results in a blessing
Resting on a starving plate.
This portal of glass and brass
transparent as smoke from a gasoline fire
provides little view to a monstrous world
of slippery slimy vipers
stalking with lust for savory souls
lost to oblivion.
I dare
my soul to bare
to put it all out there
so be aware
how little I care
about what I wear
let everybody stare
if I dress with flair
or grow my hair
this I swear
if you I scare
say a prayer
don't compare
my derriere
to some laissez-faire
jerk in despair.
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