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"Blank Canvas

I stared at a blank canvas.
Till, razor sharp thoughts slice my belly.
Blood splatters canvas.
Vivid hues blow great streams across its virginal purity.
In my pain, my ecstasy, my palette of paint becomes my fluids.
I drop to my knees and smear my bloody entrails across its surface.
Transported to some surreal world of color.
I taste sound, while hearing pigments, bathing in hues.
Feeling my essence leach away…I am nothing but pure light.
Death’s fingers encase my throat.
Gasping, fighting, vortex of nothingness pulls into its pulsing womb.
As my heart beat slows, it becomes louder in my ears.
Thaddddummmp…Thadddummmp…Thad……………………….
Silence so profound I fancy hearing a planets orbital screams.
Void, death, birth nihilistic thought of Summerian Gods.
I roll in these experiential events.
Neither here nor there.
Orchids bloom before my frontal lobes, vaginal, virginal, gates of hell.
Through which I  am thrust wiggling screaming.  
Coated in my sacred fluids, orgasmic rictus twisting my spine.
I am born to someday wear that crown of thorns all true artists of space, of time must someday don.
I find my self still staring at a blank canvas.  
 
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(c)-DS Baker

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dbaker

dbaker

18 years 11 months ago

thanks

Mark, Thanks buddy. Jess, its about being blocked. Most poets/writers who are blocked tell its not about not seeing images, it is about seeing too many images and not being able to place them in a cogent manner. Look back at the last line. There is an old Italian saying that goes something like this, "Writing is easy...you just stare at the page till blood appears." It was with that thought I started my piece. -David Work, stretch, take risks, visualize your future. Become the poet you have always longed to be. All that is needed is honest effort.-DSB
dbaker

dbaker

18 years 11 months ago

Joe..darn it! sorry mate, I

Joe..darn it! sorry mate, I am tired and my fingers typed in what they wanted. Joe, thanks for the comments Work, stretch, take risks, visualize your future. Become the poet you have always longed to be. All that is needed is honest effort.-DSB