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There is it



Sitting in the sufficient sunlight
pastel warm tones changed from
Jarring green to beige

Where worm thoughts
tread treatises
of threadful thoughts

sewing stitchs
in jungle vine
lexicon

I see
I hear
I taste

the words
the food on plastic trayed
display and coffee cup
with only Red Rose tea

delicious hot and comforting
like the pills in paper wax
packet cups

here are jagged edge
some assorted
assorts
sand coloured ovals
and rounds
some water to wash
this down
and sleep

formulae dreams
where chalkboard squeaks
link links to links
like molecular chains
and planet cycles

the rock mass rises
up from the terrain of
trees
and the breezes talk
amongst themselves
with dry whispers

I am alive and on the bus
swaying in the belly
of glass
looking
out while the world
slips past
and looks
in

the loneliness like
a fond blanket about
my shoulders
my jacket
like a book cover
worn torn faded
vintaged



— Esker, Mar 27, 2010

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Esker

Esker

16 years 2 months ago

Thank you Darknlovely3436

Im trying to find an opening chapter in poem free verse body of work and thoughts and closing sometimes its disjointed but eventually this will form up Esker~
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raskin

16 years 2 months ago

Excellent, “I am alive on

Excellent, "I am alive on the bus swaying in a belly of glass looking out while the world slips past and looks in" Memorable poem. raskin
Tonya

Tonya

16 years 2 months ago

There are some wonderful

descriptions here. Snap shots of a very sobering experience. “Where worm thoughts tread treatises of threadful thoughts sewing stitchs in jungle vine lexicon” “formulae dreams where chalkboard squeaks link links to links like molecular chains and planet cycles” I see no disjointedness in your poem. I think you link them all together very well with this common thread of a cycle, a chain of events, a continuation and process of thoughts merging from one idea to another. I love the idea of ‘jungle vine lexicon’. Verdant language threading through the brain. Again you mirror this idea with the formulae dreams verse. All these actions and notions are bound in your own personal volume. Which to me, is one of comfort, a place you most definitely know yourself. Even if those looking in do not. Very nice… Always, Tonya
Esker

Esker

16 years 1 month ago

poet cessation

reading morrison cobain holiday sexton plath wolfe gas gun and stone the needle dripping venom high rollers rolled off the assembly line of pain and no regrets i wish to be as talented as those my humble toes in walmart soft shoe my typewriter banality tapping Did we know him when we find his obituary eventually his love of death and wonderment her thrill of life at the line and just one step over close the lid like the case of the typewriter like the switch on the tower and it runs down the disc the fan and falls silent while the living remember the lines for the souls whom let go and untethered floated like winged feathers
Tonya

Tonya

16 years 1 month ago

I love this..

Is late and i need to let this sink it past the epidermis. "gas gun and stone the needle dripping venom high rollers rolled off the assembly line of pain and no regrets i wish to be as talented as those my humble toes in walmart soft shoe my typewriter banality tapping" just for a start though... this is terrific and has so many layers to peel.. you are Stephen.. just as talented and, tormented I'm afraid If I were an Angel into my downy wings I'd wrap you shield you from all the angish that plagues your tatooed heart every etch of scar i'd blur every open wound that bleeds ...i'd find a way to heal always, tonya