Monday, November 19, 2018

Beloved Swan


Love increases, this luxurious creature, made perfect by losses: our arms to courage, our minds to fair memories, if but our souls to phone calls: or detached sorely, imbued with anger, as one walks their tomb: at casual reference, spoiled by sorrow, but catching a glimpse from time to mirror: as mental creatures, sensing disjunct(s), or searching for freedom: our tragic voyage, pegs upon bolts, our core roots damaged by poisoned dreams: our ivy with syrup, our ivory with promise, at realization this life as quadroon: our mulatto fathers, our angry mothers, where men understand resentment: such bulbous eyes, such carnival feelings, our homes floundering equity: those remote cries, as senseless for strangers, but hearts yearn for normal realities: our souls at union, our union fluttered by truffles, or days so sullen our minds are ruthless: those few friends, those invitations, our crucial horizon: as women saunter, big bundles of laughter, where an instant second speaks to disaster.     Love decreases, if but buried in oak, as one distinguishes between rational obsessions: that crevice of ants, those indigenous turtles, or those domesticated platypuses: our parrots seeking advice, while torn with silence, while puppies vie for attention: as but to listen closely, our pampering souls, our bellies scratched and rubbed: our inner opera, those soothing voices, our kittens deep beneath our beds: to dig for hearts, laughing for critical, our crucial for pains: our livid lamps, our minds at intuitions, to read a bit curious concerning intention: those abandoned feelings, made worse by motives, where all we need is a little shine: those bolts upon pegs, this thrust to pavement, our sketches screaming with fires: at local parks, peering at squirrels, a smidgen concerned with rabies: if but those concerns, proven as irregular, would time persist in love?     …you’re smart like foxes, a bit extreme, and gifted by experience: you’ve played in mire, you’ve mirrored mother, and you have sentimentalities for stepfather: you possess a few friends, you sing in acapella, and you’ve become resilient: you’re countenance screams at nonsense, you roll eyes when irritated, and others are able to sense your cries: this world of primates, this thing with grooming, while you specialize in heartfelt reciprocation: you’re a dependable friend, you sound out syllables, and you possess an iambic spirit: our formative years, becoming something unique, while listening to crickets afar: these solemn times, those solemn messages, as thoughts massage our solemn instincts: our gifts, Beloved, to address assassination, to inform our cores, to laugh when under pressure: this unbelievable suggestion, to insist upon love, where years have spoken by absence: those tales untold, this movie in deliberation, or nights seated at edges: a solemn tear, or miscommunication, where a father must love mother: this true tale, this whale by facts, while some prefer to maintain distance: such critical pain, such crucial vibes, while swans need something normal….     …we sense something sweet, we ignore something feudal, we side with souls despite such circumstance: we pick through berries, while some are spoiled, we cleave to those few at our souls: this man with issues, this family with deep wrenches, our realities a wretched song: but why for mirrors, when something is blatant, where palms point at a deep distraction: our welts with salami, our breads with cheese, our memories conditioned by self-interests: at musical redemption, to shed passion through prayers, while turning from habits seems irregular: this praxis of thieves, this selfish empire, our grown, adult children: but yours becomes Infinity, and yours becomes tension, while education might enhance proclivities: that 3rd eye language, this 6th sense mentality, while numerology becomes intriguing: to move towards an exit, to adore genetics, while sensitive to certain behaviors: our days seeking perfection, at little concern for strenuous undertakings, while miracles require difficult work: to seize with time, this mental giraffe, or so beneath layers we dig ourselves to freedom….  

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