Tuesday, April 29, 2014

If This Were More than a Fantasy

(Omicron by Cheryl Kellar)


Where I stand
The ocean of purple, blue, & pale pink
Cathedral lights wash over lush mountain sides
Bright enough to illuminate the pane
Below snell's window
Baby coo’s and little footsteps
Fill the atmosphere with innocence
And purity like a mother's womb
The bursting of heart-shaped capillaries
Caused a movement
Of psychedelic blocked receptors
The sound of music rang
The constant wave of notes
Made our words so easy to speak
The strumming of memories made
The road as smooth as the path
Of somnambulism


©2014 Anthony Desmond Scott. All Rights Reserved.

At d'Verse, Grace has us writing poetry inspired by fine artist, Cheryl Kellar.




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Sunday, April 13, 2014

The Bull Walking on Blood and Soil




A mass of gray in death causing turmoil
Like the spiral of a ram's horn
Conspiracies that surround the goat head
Are the reason no one reads good news
Unless there's speculations
Of pyramid symbolism

Theories become irrefutable evidence
Colorblind like a bull to every matador
Waving a red cape
Charging at a double edge sword
Like a nigga to a fire hose

You can't walk in my shoes
I have hooves
Among the million man march
Of pale soles

The ground we both walk on
Is the same but for some
It feels like broken glass and
Dirty needles bent from
Being passed around 
Like a house built on blut und boden  



©2014 Anthony Desmond Scott. All Rights Reserved.


*Blut und boden - German for blood and soil, is Nazi ideology;
synonymous with racism.*  

This poem is written for Poetics - The Photography of Phyllis Galembo,  my prompt 
at d'Verse Poets Pub.



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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

LURE


From the moment we met
I knew your bones were made of paper
Worn so thin you could swallow me whole
But I am not afraid
My illicium still shines brightly

I am foolish enough to remove my teeth
Solely based on the beauty of your mouth
As I showcase the persistence of an anglerfish
Unsure if your past has caused
A rare sexual dimorphism: a crescent-shaped mouth
Of fang-like teeth between your legs
Sharpened like a razor to a strop


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