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PERVERSE

11 Monday Jan 2021

Posted by drdamiang in Chaos, dark, Dark and light, Good versus evil, Light, mythical/mythological, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, wordplay, writing

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PERVERSE

you stand stoney-faced
spelling out my Karma

I turn from that wisdom;
close that window into my soul

am of a sudden ready
to embrace chaos, dally
with uncertainty

throw myself into
the arms of Kali,
the coils of a Gorgon

be enveloped
give them the best I can

until
lifted up, elevated
or
cast asunder, drained

such
a crapshoot
good, bad, ugly
for better
or for worse

sacred or
profane

legal, so strictly legal,
or
unrhymed, free
to run on
nothing so perverse

DARK

18 Wednesday Nov 2020

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DARK

we made love
despite the dark forces

because of
the dark forces

we became
the dark forces

(we are
reverse polarities
as electromagnetism goes)

became the
very forces
we
resisted

sometimes when
we are together, quantum
entangled,
it’s hard to tell
the light
from the dark

CAFE SANS OLE

27 Thursday Aug 2020

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CAFE SANS OLE

we drank tea
swopped mythologies
shared
what we could
across the table

noting up close
and personal
though our
toes once
did touch

perhaps forever destined
to look at each other
from opposite sides
two
parts of
a Hegelian dialectic
an
unwinnable chess game

on occasion we would
take a Hellenistic turn
explore the logos, and all its
vaunted -ologies

but try as we might
there was no
undoing of the done
nor the shutting out
of the looming demolition of the world
as pure hypothesis, abstract indulgence,
speculative fantasy

wistfully,
you did ask
(a note somewhat
off -key) whether
star is
etymologically embedded
in disaster

our contribution to the atmosphere
already heavy
already
all the barometers sensing
a downturn
towards the existentially fraught,
cosmically absurd

as if
the spirit of the place
feasting upon the dystopia
and apocalypse
in our eyes

or perhaps
just sipping, hellcat licking

hard to avoid this
since we speak as we write
act as
we are written

reaching the boundary, singularity,
event horizon of our characters

about to strip
and consume matter with

the weight
of our gravity

where once we might explode like a
Supernova, all light revolutionary

the last word
of our physics will
be very
dark I fear

***

and so,
talking of endings

here we are
already

quite beyond ourselves
our narrative
thread lost

two creatures
worth forgetting

Oh were
this meeting, this cafe
metaphor of something
greater than
fear of finality
of
endgame and
nihilistic creator

not
something you might show
up on a Sky Sports screen

(ending
of everything Plato
every
last Olympian dream)

DOWN

18 Tuesday Aug 2020

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DOWN

the skein of the Universe
has become twisted
we may not see it
or believe it

but we are falling through a tear
in the fabric

plummeting through the
broken warp and weft
of space time

and we
are falling so fast
and yet
so slowly

relative to the speed
at which things will end

strange
how we have thought of our fall
not as continuous process being
accelerated
but single, fixed
mythological event

slowly the terror of this
realization dawning

as we plummet downwards
crazily
the point becoming as
much mathematical as it is
theological and
philosophical

how far down
will the light
be able to follow

the resistance
to darkness
continue to be

ENDGAME

04 Tuesday Aug 2020

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ENDGAME

at the end
we will be a fable
part of the mystery

that butterfly
that sent out a tiny
wing-wave
minuscule shift
in the cosmos
fleeting disturbance
in the force (it was)

will they know
how we laboured to learn
to find, explore
what frustrations
and what failures?

our planet filled with
electrical light — a beacon
in the galaxy, so
we thought
so we believed
until
it burned

and our mystics, surely they
of our race in some sense abide,
in some way
survive?

who saw this domed night sky as
if the speckled inside of an egg

waiting for the key
the code, the word to
crack it open

shatter that shell into a billion
star-pieces
stick your fingers (sexual
metaphor) into
the fire of
a star, Vega blue or
bright Sol yellow

then at last
for one brief moment
we can
be at the centre
of everything

until the tyranny of day night day
night
of absolute light dark binary
re-establish and restore

Oh the raw fusion energy of
Helium fire
secret to all

in this cold cold Universe
that knows desire

ALIVE

27 Saturday Jun 2020

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ALIVE

the darkness
comes
alive

but when you
hear it come alive

see it
come alive

it is too
late

the darkness
takes
you
too

LIGHT

20 Saturday Jun 2020

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LIGHT

I stay
in the room
for there
is light

outside
the darkness
Stygian

supposed
to go out
and take the
light into
the world

but in the darkness
of the world
not a hope
in Hell
of finding it

IN THE DARK

20 Saturday Jun 2020

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IN THE DARK

I die by day
live
by night
take
my vitamin
supplements
both ways

the light
and the dark.

BINARY

06 Friday Mar 2020

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BINARY

I was born
before the
light

fractionally, still
within breathing distance
of the morning

and yet, along with my half
of the world’s population,
consigned to
the side of darkness
of unfathomable night

children
of the stars

of the great paradoxes
of space and time

the Sun so
happy to
efface

telling us he
is all
we need to
believe in

he is life supreme: absolute
ruler and provider

all
we ever
wanted

all that
we need

CLOUD MOMENT

09 Sunday Feb 2020

Posted by drdamiang in dark, Dark and light, Good versus evil, Light, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

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CLOUD MOMENT

the clouds
gray, black hanging low
portending something
faces writhing within
those slabs of storm
hanging so low
the ground almost touching

and me
asking quietly as
the Sun is setting
for some contending sign
some slight
suggestion
of the power of light

and then they appear
tentative and unclear
yet
unmistakable

five broad rays like the
outspread fingers
of a divine hand

and then the
wind stepped in

took that black gray cloud
tombstone out further West
slowly, slowly

that dead weight
on my soul beginning
to disappear

light and dark
threatening to contend
and yet
perfectly balancing

the drama of their being
inescapable it seems

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