Jammin with a mate long ago, this poem is
made of many smaller poems. So while alittle random it talks and sings about
the cold darkness of time and age, and ends by renewing old prophecies of love.
Tuesday, 25 July 2017
Sunday, 23 July 2017
Ode to Evolution
O what nourishment divine fractal core thread,
what sap root sun
feeding do they deserve?
Those who skyscrape
to ghost bleeding
mitote maddness the
skyfather's flesh.
Those who watch the
acid rain of
human darkmatter falling and
piercing the earth.
Those who crack the bone dragon eggs
to still-born peace and speak unholy word
in their bomb hearts.
Those who manipulate
to produce death products in
cycled desert cracks creeping,
searching for another
farmers suicide.
Those undead armies
of Hitler's scientists for profit.
Those who made
headless
the spirits of the forrests, now
wondering the felled
wastelands
amidst the lost paths
of the extinct.
O those who committed
sane
the Banks of Wall
St's fraud,
the trillion headed axe.
Those political frauds the billion edged bulldozer,
policy dying beneath drama, hypnotized consent
a blasphemic core sin
against the meaning of light
now imprisoned in smart TV's.
Cowards!
Death clouds of
obscene chauvinism,
all you do is feed on
our suicidal tendencies.
All you do is kill
the new gods our children
deserve to create.
All you will ever claim in the holy name
of water's flower fruit is your own destruction.
We will survive you.
We will survive you because we give back our umbilicus,
because our tree core is permacultured to every fellow
spirit kin, every
animal saint, every ray of the universes
star seed in our
beings eye.
We will survive
because of
how we weep as your
teachers,
forgiving but never forgetting
the witness to your own suffering
and its exponential
virus teeth marking.
O yes, you will hear us now you
the 1 percent, you the careless,
you will not bite again,
from now on,
you will be the one to starve...
Thursday, 20 July 2017
The Dark Lake
I dreamed I was dragged out to a huge dark lake via social
powerlines, out with the golems of testostorne AKA the frenemies of my youth.
They had invented this new game where the cities mega watt powerlines were
partly stripped and hung towards the waters edge. Adrian was the genius, “a new
way to fish boiz…” “fuck yeah!” “holy shiz balls man!” “idn’t that err… kinda
suicide?” was my response. “Only if you let go of the fire fox too early, when
you get close enough, the bolt earths in the water.”
And so it was on.
I watched in excited
horror, in Schoedinger’s perceptual torture, how they would fly under huge
bolts of lightning which would zap into the dark water. I only picked up the
courage to protest when I saw the dead fish float like stars killed, their
silver, their twitch, no one gathered them, booze was the only thing passing
their lips. “Stop you bastards! You’re gunna kill the lake!” it was a broken
shrill in the end… Surrounded in an instant, Iphones and snarls, regret was
amidst the most prevalent of the distant and strange world’s things. “Awww
common Jas, you just haven’t had a go yet, don be a pussy!” I could feel Sam
wink.
The next part came in blinks –all the hands on my limbs, the
death monkey sniggers, “remember if you jump off early you’ll be fried like
your beloved sex toys…” Then the light flashing above, the realization there
was no rubber tyre on the line to stop me, someone had taken it. “Now swim
boi!” Frantic water and breath, a howling pack about to…
And that was the end of my dream.
I woke in a sweat. Terrifying right? The demons of my youth
destroying the life of my subconscious? Luckily, I count Carlos Castenada as
better than Freud where dreaming is concerned. And thus nightmares serve no
purpose for me. To me, if you leave the defragging process of the mind in a
mess, all you’ll ever be is a mess. So in my waking state I day dream the rest.
I was sure to be zapped, the teenage golems were beating the power
lines with sticks and they zapped in their monstrous threat. I kept swimming,
into the darkness… How far must I swim? I thought. A huge island of dark water
rose before me in waves. I was terrified again, I had heard stories of the
giant who eats children, those who swam too far. I never thought they were
real. I turned back towards the shore.
Surely these boys were bluffing. Had Sam
found out about me and Harmony? I mean, she doesn’t even like him! And anyway,
he wouldn’t kill me over a girl now would he? I looked back over my shoulder.
‘Hey its gone, phew… what the hell was tha… " and then terror shook right through me. Something had my hoodie and I was being pulled back through the water. When I looked back again, a giants face smiled at me from the
water… But that smile, it was soo familiar. So familiar that I did not fear a thing anymore. Next I’m in his hand, I’m rising high into the sky, I can hear his thoughts, we slush and stomp
our way over to the screams on the shore…
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Awareness Poem
This poem, written during "the dirty thirty" April prompt
challenge, follows a theme; the word "stillness" verse
"awareness" comparing their use-fullness. The prompt was trying to make a
blade of grass exciting. And so of course, I took it in a very spiritual sense,
exploring some of my experiences in meditation technique and the sensations of
time and connected-ness. For with the sacred skill of this awareness, we can connect
to planet consciousness. Enjoy my friends!
Sunday, 9 July 2017
Dimension 35c
What to do on a sunday night? Lounge room dance session!! Yep regular part of the new me, 5-7 of these a week. 'Cause I've realized I've been neglecting one of my favorite mediums. Like, why only dance at gigs, doofs and clubs? #mythankstoterrafractyl.
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
The Willie Wag Tail and the Goldfish
They met
beneath a half
moon summer,
she the free fool, a Willie Wagtail,
thirsty, surprised to hear
the large
wineglass surface speak
in a deathlike
whisper;
“Please,
eat me, O angel of
light and death.”
And there was double the surprise,
for he was an
angel of light and death himself,
a moon lit golden
fish, an orb like gift…
“My human gods have abandoned me,
why do you
hesitate?”
“I do not eat angels like you,
it would be a sin
against the animals…”
And art that the only beauty?
No, they could each take no more
and swam and flew to the depths
of their despair,
each gasping their
light to hideously
defining shadow…
A world passed,
yet there was still none like that surface.
To her, the water’s voice was just like
her own air-free-heart
yet filled with
a completed
miracle…
And so she returned.
And only to an orange and still thing.
And only to her leap of a world bridge faith,
a piercing, a kiss-full
ripple of the sky breath
and dropped crushed soft abdomen
of silver moth
left over from her children.
Yes, it worked for a while,
love began to
move,
Slowly,
rising and descending.
Each day
he glimpsed her
god and gasped her in,
Gifting her sips of his waters poetry as she
perched upon the rim. And then her children,
they grew and drank the same and he gifted gladly,
for they grew wise
and bold and he laughed bubbles
at their wise
remarks.
And love was love
for a while.
And so powerful in
tides of the storms
and the sky blue wonder. And so powerful
because it was the
end of the world
when that wonder
began to win.
At last a great drought ended too late
on a crescent waning moon…
When they all fell in around him
there was one
fifth left,
there was unmeasured sipping guilt
and their eyes
half submerged
with his last metaphor escaping.
And yet there was a feeling,
like each to their own leaping,
a world bridge,
their own
kiss-full ripple
of the sky breath
returning…
Sunday, 2 July 2017
Questions from the Fire
Ok its winter, and so I've been a little obsessed with fire. Fire the great path back to the eternal now, as original inception of our dreaming. In that vein, this poem poses questions. Questions that come from how far we can remove the old paths, the old cycling, "seen it all before," that would keep us trapped in electrical boredom and devolution.
Poems note; the word "Yod" is a word in the Kabbalah that is used in the first letter of god, and it represents fire as the first spark, the initiation of anything. Further, the "shadows that Plato screams about" refers to his philosophical story of the cave of shadows, where humanity is stuck looking at shadows instead of the original forms of things that are actually pure light, i.e. what casts the illusion...
Sunday, 28 May 2017
Poems from the Sun trapped within Me...
After struggling putting pen to page for a few months,
this new work comes from the magical assistance of “The Dirty Thirty” in April
2017. Begun by poet and community leader Abdulrahman Hammound, “The Dirty
Thirty” is a Facebook group of poets who all gather on the first of April to work
toward one prompted poem a day for that month.
While hesitant when forcing my art (I only started on day
9,) I slowly began to find it dance-full, something to relish each day. It
ended up a practice that saved my pen from near nihilistic destruction, a
prompt group that developed many friendships and a prompt group that got me
amongst the ‘dirty madness’ that is suspending the edit mad stigma and getting
to the business of creating something magical.
Thus my work is intensely love born, vulnerable, abstract
with secret mashings of terabyte glitch, with astro physics, Buddha, viking beat,
with Carlos Castenada warrior stories, Letters to myself from the Future, political
screams and jazz memoir splashings. It is a work set to the idea of a
connected-ness in the universe, a single essence of things that is trying to
escape my poets life and shine, entering our dream places. Places where we can
meet and drink of the beginning-ray-spectrum-cadenza, breath the now and turn
into the ghost holy wisdom of the future. Places where we can feel warm
memories of enlightenment and sigh.
I’ll meet you there…
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
A few Powerful Spaces
This work
was written in 2012 when I was lucky enough to be driving an 'ol drunkard roof
plumber to work in Melbourne Victoria, since he had lost his license. One of
his jobs was an egg shaped building next to the Alfred hospital and Fawkner
Park ( an "egg for quacks" we called it). Now there is just something
about Fawkner City Park where I spent those days, a well of resonance, of
intention for so many people, for better health and meditation or worse war
between nature and mad capitalism rush. Inspired by the beats, the chaotic
nature of these poems, streams these conscious essences with a wild vernacular,
a spiritualism guided by the modern doof electric festival culture. And so
while some are quite large world and impossible, there are many micro moments
from my simple humble camera balance as well...
Sunday, 3 January 2016
Fire Twirling to the Sounds of the Rebel Horde
This poem is born from my deep love of the fire twirling art and the love of fire in all of us. As an art I learnt from a very young age at a festival called Confest, the feeling of its spiral through my body has guided my thought, life and poetry ever since. And so inspired amidst its idiom, I find this poem parallel to what W.B. Yeats said in his lines from Sailing To Byzantium;
O sages standing in God's holy fire
as in gold mosaic of a wall,
come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
and be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
and fastened to a dying animal
it knows not what it is; and gather me
into the artifice of eternity.
My special thanks to;
Yurylvov,
Emma,
funktifino69's channel,
Fringe Theatre ETRE,
Pheonix of Avatars,
Nighthawk Light,
and the
Ugnies Sokis Fire Collective
for the clips!!
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