Wednesday 10 February 2016

Poems, by Stanley Wood

The Earth is But a Wasteland

Soulless homes dwelt in by empty natives
The dust of corps’ litters the air
The silence is interrupted by slight waves of flickering energy
The sounds of cold sentience going about its hateful life
A car engine rumbles
Over a road carved from remnants taken from a wound in the earth
A new gash opens in the dusty film of oil mine
Black blood spews forth from the abused seabed
For it has long since been beaten into submission
The carcass of an iron deposit is left torn open
Its sacred internals are shipped away
To be formulated into vast clockwork
            Soon to tarnish new horizons

Foreign lands are even now being cut
By lonely organic machines
            Programmed to continue wandering and damaging
This now silent world.

A stranger breaks the silence


Dissecting

A logical disassembly
Cold and hard
A lifeless misinterpretation
Did a poet pour forth his soul for us to cut it apart?
Has society deformed to this split print?
The value of the poem is not enclosed in the notes.


Love in Hell

The fire of a life that is filled with things that I despise
Engulfs me as I walk through
            The palette of greys cut by only hot white foulness

The mist is parted by a soft glow
That of true life
            The light of love pierces a film of distaste
A line of love scratched onto a scarcely excising world gives meaning to blank

My frail empathy in purple flowing textile bass
Connected to a beautiful soul


Creation

Lost, deep within the storm of society
A citizen is inspired

An idea surfaces to the top of the pool of chaos
The conformance of everyday life is interrupted by the idea
The person’s order of life takes a new priority

You stop, you: citizen no more
Conform no more
Sit and breathe
Grasp your medium
Breath
Lay forth your plan
Begin

The outside world falls from beneath you
The universe is limited to the room
The building in which you dwell, gone, mattering… not
Infinity is contained in the distance between pencil and paper

Your past is gone now
The time that crossed you matters only in how it affects you now
Memories to dust
Your friends: shavings of gold
Your possessions: chips of lead
Your family: fragments of diamond

You stop, life form, no more
Shake free from the bindings of physical form
Nearly finished in your transcendence
You have been worn down by yourself
The idea is a sea of self that has worn
away all that you were

The shore is gone now all that is left is the idea
Developing a life of its own you nourish it

One mark at a time, a million thoughts made immortal
Liberated from the waters of the mind


Good Morning

The sky fades to pink
Man stretches upright
The first rays of light dance over the horizon
Man claps stones in celebration
The sun peaks over
To see man’s invention
Beams play over the leaves on the hillside
Man cuts down the tree to feed the abomination
The star’s luminesce caress
Cannot mend the fire of man

The midnight of humanity must come early


Tears of a black angle

Fip Fip Fip clack
The yellowed cards of time crack on the desk of reality
Dust swirls around the ultimate gamble

White gloved hands shuffle the ivory fates
A six year old boy bounces happily beside his mother
They brows the Persian marketplace
Fip, the patter of the deck moving
“I am sorry” mutters death
The boy walks alone to his parents funeral

The skull twists into a frown
It must make a move
Snap, a lone piece slaps the grain
A woman wins the lottery
The glimmer of hope in the empty eye sockets
Dies as the woman kicks a homeless crone

Drawn from the pack of millions:
Eight, dead, today

The deck is cut: civil war
The blood of brothers runs from red hearts

A cold clap fortells a sharpened spade
Plunged into soon cold flesh on the moon

Red and black
Love and death
Woven into the laylines of existence

Tears fall over yellowed bone
A thousand cries of agony reply
Sunlight comes and goes and the game goes on
Suffering life drags itself over time
But long after them fate will suffer and cry over his forced crimes
And on, unto eternity


Fip. Fip… snap, fip, crack.

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