Sunday, December 12, 2004

Something a bit more personal

I don't know yet who may be reading this blog, but this will be the first, more personal entry of note. For those people who know me, some perhaps may know that I've written some poetry and some has been published. Here is one of them:

Written on the Body

Dig this shallow grave
Eyes scorch the back
Bruise the body,
Smash the face.

Script in Blood,
Hollow Bones.
Poetry, handprints burn.
To write, to dismember
Same difference.

ERASE? – hardly but maybe
Scratch, tear, gouge
MUTILATE!

Write the Body
Angel, mortal, Immortal Distortion
Crumple, obliterate this script
Loops and whirls, twirls and whorls.
Fingerprint, retina – characters of LOVE?

Skin dead, body dust
Rip the soul – shatter the mirror
Sinews, tissue, blood – DEATH?
Carnal lust – body surges – destroyed salvation
Script a form
Love – Profane Misuse
Body – Fleshy Pulp
Disintegrate – Truth
DEAD!

1 Comments:

Blogger Davyth said...

This poem seems to be truly 'possessed' with a lyrical, visceral rage. Yet that rage is mystical and violent, it wrenches the illusion from the words, like Beowulf tore Grendel's arm from his shoulder. This is the image I am reminded of.

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