Saturday, 21 September 2013

What a crazy dream!

Life, I mean- isn't it? Odd opportunities, missed chances, curious reminders and drifting memories. Life is very much a watercolour where the shit blends into the serene sky. I've lived an odd dream-like life, dream and nightmare alike, in fact, where realities seem too good to be true and at once are turned on their heads. This is a description of a strange dream that I had, because I do not have the talent or patience to write the real life example that is fresh in my memory and needs the confidence of another day to become cemented in history. For now, I will hold on to my dreams.

On second thought, I reject the idea of allowing anything more.

Death

Here's a poem I wrote while I watched an old cartoon from my early childhood.
You may wonder where the inspiration comes from, more specifically, how it came to be. If this is the case, I assure you that we were not watching the same show.

Death:
my old friend,
the one to whom
I am most comfortable.
You are nothing
to be feared,
but one who can be relied upon:
on one we can depend.
You will never cease
in your love for us,
the one great certainty
until the end.

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

On Wine and Things...

It's been a little while since I were last on here. I've not been so faithful. I have my reasons; each as small and insignificant as each other. Nevertheless, I have been working, at times, writing short aphorism's and other little cuts of my thoughts for my novel. Wine played a fair part in the past week or so... Here's a couple of things on the subject of something or other.

 Claret
    the blood fills my glass
Claret
    I think of my wound
Claret
    it runs down my throat
Claret
    I think of you

There is so much in a name;
so much and nothing at all;
what is it but the whim of your parents,
and what you will
from thence be known and remembered for,
remembered,
or forgotten,
entirely and forever

Friday, 6 September 2013

Some Velvet Morning

Despite my age, I have loved as much as any other, older- which is to love so completely, that every day of separation brings pain. It was for her that I became so much, but with the realisation of her womanhood, she made need to grow apart. And Phaedra was her name.

Listening to that song;
our very elegy,
and your last words-
how you gave me life
and how you made it in.
Walking through the rain
my body was shattered
as if made of stone.
Wrapp’d in sorrow,
though I were,
I could not cry.
I made my vow
to the angels
and the heavens wept
for I 

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Misery Chord

An act of mercy, yet what a curious connection can be made phonetically. The sound of one's misery deserves an act of kindness, in return. Perhaps that is the secret of it.

With consternation I stand
awaiting
for my way to be made clear
Only with your blessing
will my pain be abated
It is only you
that I stand to hear.
And should you wish
to show me sufferance
permit me now
your misericord
For, even saints
can find their spirit broken,
Yes, even they
can doubt the lord.
And as I am
no saint nor prophet
but just a man, this:
my confession-
permit me now
to lean upon you;
lend me your hand,
for my repentance.

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

'On the Suffering of the World'

Schopenhauer's a grand read, that I can't deny- his prose is not so prosaic, and though the more I read, the more I am conditioned into accepting that I am dying, forever losing sight or grasp of the present moment, his way of passing time is as good as any other; to remove oneself from the parade and just observe it a while, as if objectively, then to carry on with the march, until we reach the end of our own, subjective, promenade.
I've always felt that life was just a series of moments leading to our death. This is a rational view, I feel, but some may see it as a little despairing. But then, why despair over the inevitable? Better yet to find one's own way of living through it- coping- you might say, ignoring, might say others. Do what you will until the issue is resolved, patiently waiting, meditating, it's all just a way of dealing with time; or the end of time, until it happens and nothing can be done either way.
Given a long enough period of time, the chances of any 'thing' increases. What does this mean?

Schopenhauer tells me that life is worthless.
All this, I knew before.
All efforts in life are meagre
procrastinations
to whittle away our time
until we die.
And if we’re lucky-
smiled upon by chance-
we would have enjoyed just a few
instances in our life,
as a repose,
before the ceaseless struggle continues:
to work, to earn, to live…
… to die.
All happiness is eclipsed, in time.
All this, I knew before.
We try to make a name for ourselves
to reach closer to our limits.
What’s that we see in the distance?
Is it happiness? Is it fulfilment?
The question is, will you ever reach it,
and should you achieve it,
was it worth it?
Are you happy now?
Will you be satisfied tomorrow?
Tomorrow arrives, punctual as always
now what is contingent to your desires?
Do you not yearn for yesterday?
I seek only oblivion:
the pleasure of the fuck
and the following rest, where,
shutting my eyes,
I will blank out the world
taking a step back
from existence.
And the earth will yet spin
and all is all
as all is the same.
There is no worthy change in time.
All this, I knew before.

Ode To Autumn

I felt, with the coming of September, a change in the air as I breathed it in and felt the perambulations of the atmosphere about me, noticing the descent of dark had quickened its pace. I love Autumn, for the sacrifice of the leaves as they throw their bodies to the ground, for the smell of primal fires that forever linger, for the cooling air as it de-pressurises in density.
Perhaps this poem isn't very worthy, but this is an ode to Autumn:

Autumn, at last!
You divined your way
into my life
shadowing the season of Summer
as sure as the flow of time,
gentle as undisturbed waters.
You darken the horizon
with vicissitude in your very nature-
to bring about man’s instalment
of unnatural light.
You quiet the bird that sings
as you usher in your successor;
Winter-
our most frigid mistress
who opposes the gayety, opulence
and nakedness
of our great Summer
who, shyly, bows out
proceeding your advance